One tip I read about grad school- don’t go unless there’s no other way to advance in your field. I’m in my 30’s, and have a lot of friends who went to grad school simply because they couldn’t figure out what sort of job/career they wanted and thought grad school might be the answer. Now they’re MUCH further in debt,…

You’re doing fine for 26, even though you keep having to dip into your savings. As I posted above, my 20’s was spent in a similar manner, TRYING to save, but not really being able to afford to. You’re only making 35k right now, which is great salary for your age but tough to make ends meet in a big city like Chicago.…

The only reason I didn’t have savings in my 20’s is because I was living paycheck to paycheck, and then had several extended periods of unemployment that put me into credit card debt by about $15,000. But I always TRIED to have savings, and I always contributed the max matched amount to my 401k’s, even setting up my…

Something to do with making the cheese? I’d like to know more about that too...

I mean, a chicken breast, young cheese, onion, lettuce, tomato, and pickle sandwich would be pretty bland. You need some herbed mayo on there or something but that would’ve taken him another 6 months to grow and press the oil, lol.

Fair enough. LOL.

That’s probably what led to that statement... his conflict and guilt about the lie and his own “cashing” in.

When you’re first starting out you probably don’t have whole teams monitoring your appearance and what you say. That takes a while and reaching a certain level of notiriety before that stuff starts happening. Usually it seems like they only hire/rely on teams after they get into trouble for saying something wrong (a…

While I agree that employees’ heads have been fucked up, let’s not forget that no one really understood what was happening when the first plane hit. Many people thought it was a mistake/plane crash, or those who didn’t actually see the plane hit just thought there was an explosion or fire or something at the WTC. It…

Yes, as a New Yorker this annoys the shit out of me. Also, I find it annoying that people now treat it as a tourist site to see. But whatever, I went to the Holocaust museum in Hiroshima and it was very moving, I suppose it’s necessary... too painful for me to get anywhere near that shit anytime soon, though.

Sorry for the smugness! It was my first wedding too, and I did my research and found these types of tips out online.

You should be calling stores in advance and telling them your budget to figure out which stores you can afford to go before even stepping foot in one. I live in NYC and had a $1,000 budget and was still able to visit at least 5-6 stores before finding my beautiful dress. Kleinman’s was right out though, they said they…

This post is useless without photos. USELESS.

Looks like a great way to kick your phone over that railing into the water, lol. And how do you actually push the button to take the photo? Might as well just get a selfie stick, lol. :P

Whatever, I feel like slapping anyone who wants to visit Ground Zero as if it’s some sort of site to be seen. It’s a mass grave and I stay as far away from it as possible, no need to stir up sad memories (and I work in the financial district, blocks away from it)... the only justification I see to visit it is mourning…

I live in NYC and still refuse to believe anyone uses selfie sticks, except they’re for sale everywhere and clearly the tourists use them at the tourist spots... :P

Please, tell us some stories about why selfie sticks are annoying and a menace on your ride! :)

That’s probably true generally, but Alton Brown claims old white male customers lingering around at weird hours are a sign of GREAT BBQ!!

Oh god so true! I had a truck in college with a covered bed and lent it out and my friend totally dinged it. After that my parents told me I couldn’t lend it out anymore and it was a relief because people were always asking for it. Even with the covered bed. They didn’t seem to understand what a pain it would be to…

Pierce Brosnan is my preferred Bond. But I think that has something to do with his Bond movies being the first ones I saw whilst a horny teen...