if your rent is more than the monthly payment with PMI then it makes sense (and for a lot of the US that is in fact what we are currently at) not to mention once you hit 20% you can remove the PMI and that’s based on the value of the home compared to the loan.

They should just include the masks with the COVID tests!

Two things, both garage door related:

And start using a password manager! (and let it come up with the passwords for you)

Site is live. You can order tests now.

The covidtests.gov site seems to be live now, with a way to order tests through USPS? I went ahead and entered my address.

In MA and maybe other states, you can elect to transfer your previous car’s plates to the new one and you have 10 or maybe it’s 14 days to register the new vehicle to those plates. In the interim, you can definitely get 550 miles in there. 

Hang on, let me pull out my tiniest violin for the rich guy who isn’t happy with the off road vehicle he bought to drive to his mountain chalet.

BUT I’M AN OUTLIER AND YOUR RULES DON’T APPLY TO ME!

I’m not sure what he’s complaining about here.

Ordering a car you have never driven is in line with another rule I have, which is to never buy a new car in its 1 year of production.

They might not go down to where they were pre chip shortage, but they will improve once the supply situation is better. One big factor are factory incentives. In a normal auto market they are available on virtually every model. Right now manufacturers are putting very little money on the hood because they don’t have…

Even the driving around with your music cranked up. When we lived in our apartment we had a neighbor who had a ridiculous sub and we could hear it all the way on the top floor of our apartment building because it would make the windows rattle. it was SO unnecessary 

My neighbor across the street has been doing a lot of work on his house, and thus has a lot of work trucks and vendors coming and going. That’s all fine, I get it. But the work trucks keep parking ON MY SIDEWALK and IN FRONT OF MY DRIVEWAY. And sometimes, the neighbor himself is guilty of the same things.

My grandmother lived through the depression and she never threw anything away. She would take old clothes (t shirts are ideal) and cut them into strips, and roll them then braid them, and join them end to end forming a long “cord”. She would then take the cord, wind it helically, stitch it together as she went and made…

I watched someone let their dog shit in my lawn and he didn’t bother to pick it up. I was standing in my driveway 30' away watching this. I told him to pick that shit up. He looked at me then turned and walked away. Luckily I had a shovel in hand, so I walked over to the pile, scooped it up, and catapulted it at him.…

I had recently gone though my large selection of aloha shirts to pare it down a bit, so quantity reduction was on my mind. I was wearing one of them into a shop and one of the folks behind the counter told me how nice that shirt was. I offered them that shirt right then and there as I had a spare shirt in the car. The…

Windchimes. You forgot windchimes.

When you’re selling your drugs, don’t have your “customers” park in front of my house to wait for you to bring them your wares. Have them park in front of your house.

Feels like an obvious one but playing your music super loud