If it’s done right and purposeful. This was literally a washer and dryer stuffed into a shallow closet. The dryer vented just right into the bedroom. I didn’t mean to bash washer dryers being where the laundry is. That is actually a value added selling point. This was a hack job that was probably growing mold on the…

I didn’t mean to offend, but in your case, you did put it in a logical place, like a mud room. I’d say depending on the noise level of your machines, you may have added value because people don’t like to do stairs anyway. I’m talking about when the dryer just vents into the bedroom because they literally just placed…

You can also safely infer a lot if you don’t get a straight answer. I just both sold and bought. When you can’t get a showing at the time you want with reasonable notice, often times there’s a tenant, and the property isn’t as cared for. When you see a lot of poorly done updates, you either have a handyman who doesn’t…

Also, interest payments on student loans give you a tax break! I always just took whatever I could afford and threw it there. If I had enough to pay the interest, great, if not and I needed the cash, I didn’t make a payment, but each year I got a little break on my taxes.

I have not bought myself sweets in years. It doesn’t mean I don’t eat them or like them, and I buy candy for halloween kids, but never to have around the house. It’s amazing how much of that junky stuff you get for free..... as I finish a doughnut at work.

Well I don’t do it to myself out of thin air, you just have to position yourself for when someone leaves or a position is temporarily vacant. If it’s politically and financially beneficial, you just say, I’ll do that for x number of dollars until you hire a replacement. Don’t do it for free thinking people will…

A true side hustle isn’t for me because my skillset doesn’t really lend itself easily to a product or service for small transactions. What I’ve done a couple times now is taken on a second job at my primary job, as long as there’s pay in it. I think I’m on my third interim title while maintaining my current title.…

I suggest chrome with an ad-blocker. I see nothing but clean white lines, the articles, and lose 0 functionality.

I can’t stress enough how much better “search folders” are than rules that put e-mails in folders. I’m the type of person who gets an e-mail and now matter how simple or complex my folder system is, the e-mail doesn’t fit, it belongs in either none or several of the folders as topics at work often overlap. A smart…

At first glance, I thought the joke was that it wasn’t Ms. Dash at all and it was really Julia Louis-Dreyfus in blackface/fake tan and wig. Then I realized this was network television and Julia doesn’t need that backlash. I was in shock until I realized it was just a dumb stunt. I thought it was a REALLY dumb stunt.

Get a cheap Roku. I like the roku 3 and would get a 4 if I was in the market, but that’s just a couple of extra features. Last I checked apple tv doesn’t do amazon prime, and it’s more expensive than a roku. A 2 or a stick will serve you just fine on the cheap.

I’m a big fan of not seperate accounts for people, but seperate accounts for things. Mortgage, loan payments, daycare money, and basically anything else that is fixed cost goes into one account. So, when the bill is due, I know I have the money. The rest goes into a spending account. Each time I pay a credit card bill…

A lot of my friends play more than I do, and they basically have grids and words already in their head before the game starts. Every two seconds they’re yelling at me to take more, so I just dump until I have all the letters and the game ends. Then I kick their butt in Farkle, Scrabble, Quidler, Risk, or any other…

My wife and I did this with chopped up fruit for our baby who was starting to eat solids. You could take a whole mango, process it a bit into small pieces all at once, then put it in the tins and freeze them. It also worked well with things like sweet potatoes. You could then just take a frozen ball of food, zap it in…

RUN!

Very good advice. At my work each division has someone like me and we all had different titles, so we got together and standardized them into six levels with clear requirements and salary ranges. Some divisions are smaller and need a business manager some are larger and need a director and some need an assistant or…

There are these people out there, they just are less vocal about it because they are happy. Also, in some situations, especially as you climb the ladder your existing pay may put a target on your back if it’s interpreted that you are overpaid. I know executives who make significantly less that other execs for job…

Exactly, but it doesn’t have to be.

Yes, it makes sense. It all comes down to who decided that we “have to” and why. This is the problem with any gentrification. It always makes sense to “improve upon” or “repurpose” places that aren’t functioning well. The problem is you’re hitting the poorest among us typically. It’s always a sticky situation. We’re…

That might be, but either way, by not correcting him I’m the one who is making a choice not to call it out each time. That’s a lot of control to give someone else in your joke.