You are right that correlation is a good starting point for investigation, but it is a terrible point to stop and publish a finding publicly.

100% of people who ate broccoli between 1500 and 1850 died, therefore broccoli kills you?

There are better forms of correlation that are worth following up on (people with this…

Its rough, but what solution is there? For someone who invested their retirement into a house we can't keep them from selling just because we want to keep renting what they own? For me this was far from the only but certainly an integral part of choosing to buy.

For #1 - Have a scapegoat. I was living 50 miles away while my wife was planning our wedding. I told her she could tell any friend or relative who gave her advice that she had to talk it over with me, and later that I didn't want to do whatever it was they suggested even if she hadn't talked to me. This let her enjoy…

This is why I told my wife I would NEVER live in a historic district. They are like HOAs where the head of the HOA isn't just a nosy neighbor but a group that is unaffected by the lack of modern upgrades, high maintainence cost or frustration of being limited to two shades of paint because they make the rules AND…

Condos are the hardest to sell, have the most monthly fees (usually they have large HOAs) force you with the worst of apartment living - you still share walls, but you can't up and move easily if you have a noisy neighbor. In short, condos are terrible stepping stone homes, but like any home if you plan to stay there…

My parent's (retired) neighbors had this happen to them after ~35 years in the same home. There are some non-monetary benefits that are worth considering like these.

My wife and I bought our house when those that we were renting it from decided to sell. Our cost on a 15 year mortgage including tax and insurance is almost exactly $200 less than our rent was. I now have more work - maintaining the pool and lawn, and other general upkeep - and I also spend more than $200 a month on…

One huge benefit is stability. My folks bought their home 25 years ago, and had a neighbor who moved to the block ~10 years before them. My folks paid off their home long ago, but just last year their neighbor moved away unexpectedly. Come to find out, they had been renting the same home for 35 years, and despite…

Excellent article. In my research I found the same thing. A $50 and $500 car seat at MOST (and usually not even that) differed in whether the child would have a small or tiny bruise after a big accident. There was NO tradeoff in the life/death safety as you increased in cost but there is a substantial difference in…

I don't think these are the best ever, but for a specific purpose my favorite are the 2.0 bose system. I have other systems in most rooms of the house that I like better and are better for the money, but the bose system does exactly 2 things better than any other I've owned:
1. Compact size - these give a lot more db…

These are the coolest looking, but they have the most frustrating hookups making moving speakers difficult, a less than consistent volume control, and very good but just not quite as spectacular sound quality as some studio monitors at similar prices. Don't get me wrong - I love my set - but they are a little…

Love them - I have bose at work, JBL creature at my PC, and my roommate had the klipsch 2.1 system, and the AV40s as well. The AV 40s don't have quite the bass the klipsch 2.1 system has, but at 1/2 the price on sale, they sound nearly as good and don't need a large subwoofer taking up space.

A helper for a big yard project. Depending on your scale, either a friend who is in school/ out of work or a group of laborers.

I have hired two friends at different times who were in school looking for extra work, paid them ~$100 & bought them lunch for a Saturday of work and suddenly that fence that was going to take…

15 - Have the partner less involved in the planning as the scape-goat to intrusive family.

I told my fiance (now wife) that any time some one gave her advice she could tell them she had to talk it over with me. She also had the freedom to tell them that I had vetoed the idea, as long as she let me know what I had…

I think they forgot number 1 - communication. My wife and I are on very different points of the spectrum for all three, and while it would be easier to have someone who was 100% the same as me, we end up making each other better, more balanced, people. The other number 2 that trumps this list is common values. If you…

And if I did, why would that be a problem? Everyone else is describing how they see the world and what they think are the best choices. Should religious individuals not be offered the same freedom as non-religious individuals?

I think that was learn more (information) quicker. Yes, the phrase "more quicker" as a modifier is bad grammar, but using more as a noun the phrase could be grammatically correct.

Glad to hear it - hopefully the increase is an indicator of things to come.

For me that was a huge selling point. The only drawback is they top out at 100Gb for $50, which while a great price, may not be enough space for some data-heavy users. A limitation I'm fine to work within, but it may be a deal-breaker to some.

One other big plus/ minus of onedrive is cost/ limit for more storage. As a student or educator, you can get 20GB + Full MS office for $20/ year. Outside that you can get 100GB for $50 per year, a lot less than drop box or google drive. That said, there is no way to buy more than 100GB, while that is an option on…