YES! I have never peeled carrots, potatoes, beets etc. It’s such a waste of time!

Ok, I’m going to confess something. I’m not a hoarder, but at different times in my life I’ve had 10+ cats. And I’m a neat freak— to the point of being OCD. I also NEVER go anyplace covered in cat hair (and I teach, so I’m in front of groups of people a lot). So here are my expert tips:

This chart is much too complicated. Let me simplify:

All beer goes with all food.

Never heard of using salt w/ iodine. Usually we run vinegar through it to get rid of hard water build up.

Yeah, we are renters, though, so the chances of the landlord doing that are slim. We do run vinegar through it every once in a while, though!

Yeah, I wonder how well they work. We have very hard water, and our dishwasher is picky about what works in it (our old dishwasher ran fine with the cheap Target brand, go figure). The only detergent that doesn’t leave white film on everything is Lemishine.

Professor Moxie here and I teach at a school where most students are on a serious budget, supporting families, and working FT. Here are a couple more tips:

BOOK COSTS: As your instructor if they can make a desk copy of the textbook available at the library. Most professors don’t know that publishers will send them free…

The key is to handle their paws a lot, and get them used to clipping their nails, from the time they’re a kitten (if you’ve had them when they’re young, that is). They’ll get used to it, and trimming nails won’t be an issue.

Also, I have a bunch of cats, and have always just used a large people toenail clipper. They…

There are some fantastic houses in Newark and the surrounding area (East Orange, West Orange, Orange) for PENNIES compared to the housing prices just a few miles away, and just a stone’s throw from NYC. They’re great communities with bad reputations. The crime rate in Newark and East Orange, for example, has been cut…

Er, yes I watched the video. The shot at the end where he cuts into it clearly shows egg snot. Yuck.

Nope. Mrs. Profmoxie and I have been together 18 years, but couldn’t actually get married (legally) until 2 years ago (yay for equality!). We don’t have much in the way of assets, just debt from my years in grad school.

And it was/is FUNNY AS HELL.

Graze is great. I’m a professor and I got it this past semester so that I would always have something to snack on in my office. It’s actually $6.99 for a box with 4 snacks. Everything is yummy and unique. It was convenient and fun to get the boxes BUT the portions are SO small! It’s convenient, but I think money-wise…

I subscribed to Graze this past semester (stopped it over the summer when I’m not in my office). I loved it, but found the portions ridiculously small. Also the box with 4 snacks was $6.99 not $5. $5 is much more reasonable for what you get!

DO NOT underestimate the STRESS of being a landlord.

We own a house in another state. Bought it for a good price when I was working there, and when my job moved me, we decided to keep it and rent it out. How hard can it be to find a nice, responsible family to rent a beautiful well-loved home in a quaint New England…

Yes. The egg in the video looked waaaaay undercooked. Runny whites = snot = yuck

Nope. Count me out. I love running, but when it’s above 80, I skip my run (unless it’s raining, then I can stand it). Some people aren’t good with hot, humid weather, and I’m one of them. Running in the heat makes me sick, headachy, makes my hands swell, and turns my face purple. I actually think I have the reverse of…

As a heavily freckled person, I wish it was easier to tell the difference between scary moles and clusters of freckles that get more dense with each passing year!

There a fizzy alcoholic beverage that’s better than ALL these. Give me a nice hoppy IPA instead of some expensive champagne/procescco any day!

The elastic trick is what I use to keep hair bands organized— they’re all on a binder clip and it works great.

I also have my keys on a binder clip, and if I want to make sure I don’t forget to bring something someplace (like bring my computer charger home from work), I clip my car keys to it.