This might fly in an area where housing costs are low (purchase or rent), but I’d wager in most population centers, you’d need to have a decent credit history because you’re going to have to pass a credit check with a landlord or get a mortgage. If you opened some accounts early, didn’t really have a lot of activity…

He’s horrible, to be certain. I was responding only to the specific elements of the crappiness of his tastes. Let’s focus on the fact that he is an ice cream hog. I like ice cream, but share and share alike. He can’t get out of his own way to be d1ck1sh.

I am. Trying to cut back because of the studies about the links to stroke and dementia, but I ran out of alternatives this week, so I’ve gone back to the old standby a few days in a row.

While I understand your clarification, and I don’t mean to be a pedant (probably too late) you said that a good credit score is the effortless byproduct of good financial habits. At best, a moderately good credit score is available in this way, but it is a matter of what one deems to be good financial habits. Paying…

Your advice is dead wrong for the young - it’s not effortless for them. Younger people do need to be active in doing appropriate things to build good credit and a credit history from a young age. The ways in which a credit score is used are dramatically different than when you were 25. They need to open credit or…

I do agree, but then I would have to live in/near Waco, and it’s only charming because it’s near a Buc-ee’s. I don’t think the Gaines are any weirder than an average Christian Texan, but that seems quite shocking by comparison to my multi-culti East Coast standards. Also, Joanna only lends you most of the decorations…

Probably because you’re a fan of the show and want to be on TV? I would totally go on House Hunters. I reached out when I was under contract last year and got contacted by a producer, but we changed our minds on the house upon inspection. I go back and forth on whether I want to be on the show... I’m sure they would…

Counterpoint: (1) For the U.S. buyers, I have only seen a few couples whose budgets seemed quite high. I watch HGTV every single day. It’s the Canadian prices that are astronomical, but their housing prices are a lot higher than Americans’ housing prices in their cities. (And one thing to add - the show about lottery…

I only clicked on this post to say exactly this. Mr. Hamm deserves privacy, he’s been very clear on this previously, and being shot by a paparazzo doesn’t mean he’s flaunting anything. Whether or not he has solid foundational garments on, this post is unacceptable. It’s a double standard for Jezebel. If Deadspin went…

SS is not an investment; it’s social insurance.

Exactly. The letter writer is not even a man-child; he’s just a child. Rules don’t apply when your friend’s child is at the hospital. Rules don’t apply when your friend has cancer. Rules don’t apply when your friend’s toddler dies from the flu. Shit happens in life, and we have to take care of each other selflessly.…

Good dog. My boys are happy, happy, happy to canoodle with us, and to fight each other to get better access to lay on us, but they will alert at a moment’s notice to an animal in the yard that they can’t even see or the doorbell. I don’t want this trained out of them, because I work from home, and I want the guy on…

C’mon. Everyone knew in advance exactly why they did that, or at least they did at my cynical firm. My firm determined that because they were going to have to pay out in a couple jurisdictions, every associate got his vacation hours as of the termination date frozen in time, and we’d get paid for those hours when we…

I recently read the book The Oregon Trail which adds a lot of history of the U.S. Western expansion from the mid-1800s to the story of two senior citizen brothers who followed the Oregon Trail from Missouri to the Pacific. The book is terrific, but in multiple places, Rinker Buck very clearly shows that it was…

So much meh. I hope I’m cremated, or unceremoniously chopped up by medical students, then cremated. If for some reason I’m wormfood, feel free to put a parking lot over top of me. I promise I don’t plan on haunting you.

I recommend the Breville mini pie maker. It appears that they don’t sell it anymore, but there are a million on ebay. I gave away 3 for Christmas the year I discovered them, and they were on sale a lot at W-S a few years back. It’s a sturdy machine. Don’t fuss with making your own pie dough - just use the premade…

I will await the inevitable decrepitude of this $10 waffle maker that is $0.30 worth of parts. I give it another 1.75 wafflings before that occurs. Truth is, that $10 wouldn’t buy that much beer (and who am I kidding, I drink cider because it’s adult juice), and as I said, small though it may be, it’s making good…

But that expensive rib at Jack’s Stack might be the thing I’d request if I were on Death Row. Beyond that, I’m not strong on KC barbeque (I’d go OK Joe’s). If you venture out, I’d recommend Ed Mitchell in NC (don’t know if he reopened his shop yet) and Salt Lick/Franklin BBQ (go on a weekday) in Austin area. County…

Those are solid. I am excellent at playlists, but I have a weekend mix, so that would totally work. I laughed at Drew’s answer, because DMB was popular when I needed a playlist. I remember my husband playing the Eagles Greatest Hits once. I’m going to go into a shame spiral now.

I will freely admit that a better waffle iron would result in an even better waffle, but my kitchen storage is the size of a shoebox, and I lived life for 39 years without a waffle maker, and so I make do with what I have. And, yet, I am pleased with the results (yes, I do have to keep the oven at 200 to keep all of…