I opted to go a slightly different route. Our tax-deferred accounts are on autopilot and I’m happy with the allocation (mostly blue chip growth, small cap Russell index, & dividend value growth) and I’m pretty much tracking the S&P 500 over the last 5 years (4 great years/1 not so hot). In my taxable account, I…

Clearly USPS is planning for more parcel shipments in the future. I know they got burned with a big investment in automated mail sorters during the late 90s just as email became ubiquitous.

My aunt and uncle do catering as a hobby for their kids’ former swim club. My aunt teases my uncle for using a straight-edge to measure and cut up brownies and other baked goods. It’s a little OCD, but they do come out uniform....even when there are 2,000 of them.

My next-door neighbor is a huge DIY Texan and never pulls permits. He purposefully starts working on the house Friday afternoon and finishes (or covers up the work) Sunday evening. He’d rather take his chances since the financial penalty is capped at 2X what the permit would have cost. He’s selling his house right…

I think it’s the lid placement is illustrated in the instruction manual...which you should all read if you’re using a pressure cooker, no matter how foolproof they make them.

Non-lawyer here, but my wife has dabbled in antitrust, insurance, and has been doing employment defense work for the last 5 years. We have friends who are judges, US attorneys, public defenders, in-house counsel, and just about everything under the sun. The US attorneys and public defenders have the most interest…

One of the former owners of my current house was a professional electrician who used his Jehovah’s witness friends to remodel the house. It was a mid-century house that sits 8ft above street level. They redid the plumbing and replaced the original cast-iron water supply and sewer line with copper and PVC, they…

I was able to score a refurbed 2010 MacBook 2.4GHz back in the spring of 2010 for $600. It looked brand new and I couldn’t figure out how I got so lucky. It still runs today, but very slowly. I’ve relegated for tax and financial purposes. A few months ago I bought a refurb early 2015 MacBook 1.2GHz for $900 off…

Sure some have forgotten, I’d say a good percentage probably have no idea about his bankruptcies, and some just don’t care. They probably figure that he’s still so successful even in and out of bankruptcy and sticking someone else holding the bag, that they think he could do the same for the country. I don’t think…

My hygienist doesn’t use the tongue scraper either; it really is a DIY since going too far will gag you, but she does use magnifying spectacles and face mask.

My honest answer is that I think his support assume he has a good understand about all things business/money related because he has a lot of money. They view his success, no matter how overstated and exploitative it may be, to translate into a knowledgeable dealmaker and leader.

I mimic my dental hygienist’s process:

I’ve taken the guesswork out of it as well; I sous vide when I have an expensive protein like shrimp, lobster tail, filet mignon, and duck. Sometimes I go the other route with smoking salmon, swordfish, tofu, brisket, and tri-tip on the kamado but I use wireless thermometers with that. Nothing worse than spending 8…

I’ll have to try this. I’ve been ordering my burgers “medium” over the last decade to prevent a soggy bun.

I wonder how efficient it will be as a range extender. There are far less moving parts than a piston engine and it should be much smaller. Perhaps torque be damned since it’s a generator. I’d be curious to see how many kWh/liter of fuel this will make compared to a range extender in the BMW i3; then I’d be curious…

Hang in there, buddy. Things might get even worse before they get better.

I’m always enjoyed peppercorns in mine, but boy is it labor intensive.

A few things:

Mine did as well. I’m assuming you’re a property owner in a “blue state.”

Please spend or invest that extra $400/mo wisely, because I’ll be paying $300/mo more in taxes because of the new tax law. I don’t mind paying more because I think we get a pretty good society out of it, but it boils my blood that the corporate class got a bigger piece of the pie, and off my back. Meanwhile, the…