As someone who was 16 in the 1980s, I worked my share of crappy jobs through high school and college to make my bills. I worked at McDonald’s, Domino’s Pizza (when I turned 18), did telemarketing for a carpet cleaner, and did door knocking for a construction company. Mom & Dad made it really clear that I had to pay my…

Last year, we went through 50 lbs of sugar making hummingbird food at home. At the peak, we had three 30oz feeders out, and was filling all them every day. We would mix up a gallon at a time. Previous years we went through about 30 lbs of sugar, but due to working from home last year, we were able to keep up with the…

I have been honest and transparent when it comes to this topic. I don’t intend to change that just so I don’t have to wear a mask while in the office, and most everyone I know personally knows my feelings.

My company hasn’t gone back to the office yet, but we are planning on doing so in September. They have followed the CDC guidelines and/or local ordinances through the whole pandemic, and they are still doing so. If you need to go to an office for any reason, you can remove your mask if you have been vaccinated (again,…

I will second this! We need a review of your pebble ice maker.

I think that people need to grow thicker skin. What happened to the days where we can have a discussion around a table or campfire, and even though we may disagree, we can still be friends at the end of the night, not walk away butthurt? If you sit and discuss, and listen to all the sides, you might just learn…

I got this set last year from Lowes. It is really nice to have on hand, has both metric and english, ball ends, and a handle to really torque down if you need to. Most of the time you don’t need to torque too much on the furniture, but some bolts are difficult to take out of some things, and the handle is handy. My…

Thanks for the advice Bill, but I still stand by my statement that if I had the extra money every month, it would get lost. We did get a really big refund one year (over $6,000), but that was a fluke. Most of the time it’s around $1000. That amount per pay period is not a game changer, and I am ok getting a check vs…

If I had the extra couple hundred a month, it would get lost in the month. I’d rather let the IRS play with my money for a year, get a decent refund, and spend that chunk on something worthwhile.

I’ve been drinking a gallon or more of water a day for more than 3 years. It started off as a suggestion from our trainer. I had a hard time at first, but got into the routine pretty quickly and easily. I wanted to really up my weight loss, and I found that just a diet change and exercise wasn’t enough anymore. I…

Who needs essential oil infused Play-Doh when Play-Do has such a nice smell all it’s own?! If that doesn’t bring back your childhood memories, nothing will. Well, maybe a box of 64 Crayola Crayons.

I do almost all the laundry. We split washing the dishes. Cooking is mostly her (she’s better at it than me), but I grill pretty frequently when the weather is decent. We have a housekeeper that comes every 2 weeks to clean the house. No kids, so that’s no issue to keep up with. Neither of us are complaining about our…

It sounds to me like you need to calm down a bit, and let go of work. I know that’s easy to say, and difficult to do. I have become very good at shutting my computer down and closing the door to my office (this may be the most important thing to do) at 5:00, and not thinking about until 8:00 the next morning. As many…

If I see Elvis Presley getting a Covid vaccine, then I might consider getting one.

As someone who used to carry a corporate paid phone, I would always answer calls and emails in a prompt manner. I had my signature set to Sent from a mobile device. Please forgive any spelling or grammatical errors. just to let people know the email may be short and that there will probably be spelling errors, and I…

This response coming from someone who thinks Donkeys have fingers?

My wife and I have been married for 25 years, and we still get the question occasionally. We have both had the desire to have children, just not both at the same time. We made a decision early on that if we didn’t have kids by the time we were 35, we were not going to have any. We didn’t want to be 70 and having to go…

Here’s my cheap knock off. I like them almost as much as the real thing. There are a few of them that have some quality issues (maybe 1 out of 20 have issues), but for the price it’s hard to complain much. The added benefit is JR runs specials ALL THE TIME, so you can get them even cheaper sometimes, that’s when I…

Great stuff here. I prefer to smoke the robusto cigars. I got hooked on them with the Nub by Olivia, and have since found a cheaper knock-off that I like just as well. They are my go-to. Nice smoke, don’t take hours to smoke, and relatively affordable. I actually call them the “perfect grilling cigar”. By the time the…

They also love hummingbird food. They are competing big time with my hummingbirds at the feeders. I think the birds are wining, but I don’t like when I open a feeder in the house and a wasp or hornet fly out of it. Luckily they usually fly straight to a window, so they are easy to smash once they get there.