Protip from a librarian: Put your kindle in airplane mode and you should be able to retain the checkouts past their due date.

This is the first time I’ve been annoyed I bought the last gen instead of waiting for the next one. I got my Watch specifically because it had the heart monitoring, and I’d been having some palpitations, and it just gave me a little peace of mind. This new one would be way better for my needs! Curse you, progress!

It’s so mind-boggling to know that we DON’T know close to anything about the gut. I truly hope more is discovered in my lifetime, because I find it absolutely fascinating.

If you go to a party school in the Midwest/Northeast - BRING A FUCKING COAT. I know it’s a pain. I know you look less cool. My roommate and I went to Meijer and each bought a cheap AF designated “going out puffy coat” that we wouldn’t care if it got trashed or lost. We went to a big party school, and *multiple* times…

How trashy would it be to use my dehydrator for this and make this the family xmas gift this year?

Both my SO and I graduated into the recession. I’m in an underpaid industry regardless of the economy; he is not. There are 22-year-olds fresh out of college making 100K more than he did at his starter job. He makes good money NOW, but nothing will make up for 6+ years of the income loss from what, if he had started…

I think a good point to make is to get a credit card in the first place!! Carefully, of course, but get one! The biggest ding to my credit is the age of my accounts and my credit limit - because I waited until I was 23 to get a card, and then the only entity that would give me one started me at a credit limit of $750.…

I work in a place that’s definitely bought into the meritocracy mythology of tech, and it drives me batty the number of people who think they’re either a) smart and special enough to be exempt from, or b) too awkward to make an effort to engage in, the droll social conventions that everyone else around them is subject…

I’m an introvert too, and everyone on my team is. And we’re in customer service!  We often talk about how we’ve trained ourselves to be performatively extroverted for work tasks, and then go home to our hidey holes and don’t talk to anyone but our pets for a couple of hours after work to recharge.  It’s definitely…

I’m trying to think of a way to say this without sounding jerky, but here goes: Why is it a waste of time to treat someone else as a human being, rather than a means to an end? People enjoy feeling useful, not used.

I literally just got my first dog on Friday, and it was recommended to feed him grain-free food to firm up his stools. So this article is super timely for me! I had noticed the starch/pulse content in most of the grain-free food and was super frustrated, especially since it was so pricey. It feels like you’re just…

Oh my god, YES. Sour cherries were at the market last week and I didn’t get any because I didn’t know what to do with them.

My fear is that I’ll have the kid that would just see this as an opportunity to not go to school.

“Bar argument” article comment sections are the best comment sections.

I learned about the history of ketchup recently, and it makes the ketchup dichotomy make a lot more sense. Heinz really entirely redefined what it was - traditional catsup is way more tangy and generally included a fish base.

omg, Alicia, I was fully expecting you to reword that with [edited for clarity]. I’m cackling. Thanks for the answer, I hope it helps other people go in more informed than I did!

I was in the midst of the process while writing that, so the stress may have given my opinions a bit of.... dramatic flair. Also, amortization schedules are a fairly common concept, albeit depressing. I’d never even heard of points before I started shopping around! It was a glaring gap in my financial knowledge,…

On the flip side, not being married also means you can potentially put it in the name of the partner who gets more of a tax benefit. This is what we did, after consulting with my CPA father. (Who promptly threw me under the bus and told us to put it under my SO’s name only, who will get MUCH more of a tax writeoff for…

Confession: Sometimes I buy sparkling lemonade because it’s cheaper than buying an empty swing-top bottle alone, plus you get lemonade.

Claire, how did you know I just impulse bought a dish tub from IKEA yesterday?! (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80314285/)

My assumption was that I use it to divide my large-ish sink. Now you’re telling me I can use the <i>counter</i>? I’m weirdly excited about this.