Had to unlearn being cheap/frugal on everything. I’m still pretty frugal but it took me a while to figure out what is worth my money, and what is not.

I had a couple of friends on the crew team when I was in college. They showed me the correct form and drove it home by pointing out how ginormous crew rowers’ legs are, particularly their quads compared to their upper body muscles.

“Soda” is just as good of a name.

Agreed. I regret my hasty choice of words and the many feathers I’ve apparently rustled because of it.

Appreciate the other commenters clarifying my original post that apparently insinuates that one would yield enormous tax savings by pushing oneself into a lower tax bracket. They are absolutely right. Still, however little they or anyone else may perceive the tax savings to be doesn’t ignore the fact that I saved on…

One thing that didn’t completely register to me at first was the tax implication of contributing to my 401k. If you have the luxury of contributing to a 401k, consider how far away you are from the next tax bracket. For a while I simply contributed as much as I could (not a bad strategy, to be sure). But if I had paid…

I’ve made it a habit to wash the greasiest thing first since the soap on my sponge is at maximum at the beginning of my dishwashing sesh and save the cleanest stuff for last. Really, if those “clean” dishes are really that clean, I’d just wash them separately anyways (probably just a quick rinse with water under the…

I disabled my Facebook account years ago but only finally permanently deleted it just last year. The real turning point for me was that I was finally honest with myself and accepted the fact that going on Facebook really did make me feel inadequate about my life (aka accepted that I had FOMO). All the other things…

If the problem has escalated to having to use chemicals, then skip the Drano and its equivalents and use pure lye beads for drain opening.

The lady in the video actually says:

I don’t do much long-distance driving outside of commuting around SoCal so I try to leave my car as sparse as possible. Here’s what I have in my car outside of the included necessities like spare tire, etc.

Your job should enable you to do the things you love, it doesn’t need to be and probably won’t be the thing.

Pentel EnerGel all the way! But 0.5mm is where it’s at.

I think a post on ETFs and mutual funds, and how those fit into savings accounts could also be helpful. I opened a brokerage account a few months ago and did a lot of reading on them before I did it, but I still don’t feel like I completely understand them.

I ate some edibles with my friend once, when my tolerance for pot was much lower and my stupidity much higher. First, we split a whole brownie between us both, and then we split the 50 piece chicken nugget meal from McDonalds before the brownie went into overdrive. At that point, my body was like, “nope, you’re done;…

Thank you for seeing my point.