My grandmother had a stack of Grit magazines that she kept in her basement. They were over two feet high. “They’ll be worth something someday,” she would say. After she passed away, my dad took them straight to the dumpster.

A few years ago, I had a water heater pipe that burst in my garage. Prior, my garage was FILLED with stuff. Stuff I hadn’t paid much attention to in 10+ years. In order to fix the drywall, everything had to be removed and 80% of it was damaged so bad it had to be thrown away. Once I had an empty garage, freshly…

While Where Is My Mind? works a little too well here, I imagine any song that begins similarly will have the same effect. Ice Ice Baby could potentially do the same, as could Can’t Touch This, although hopefully the beat would wake you before “Stop! Hammer Time” rolled around.

A reverse mortgage is a downright predatory concept.  I’m shocked to see it suggested here.

Counterpoint: earplugs are MUCH cheaper, and tend to be bright colors, making them harder to lose

And this is if you get past the mile long chore list and cleaning fee that costs more than the rental itself.

Never store a glass globe or water-filled globe where sunlight can hit it, that can concentrate the sunlight and start a fire.

I read too much to carry physical books with me.

Related: Make sure you have the appropriate minimums.

Most of that is attitudes and not necessarily driving ability. The amount of people that don’t care about hitting things (even worse other cars), is appalling.

My air fryer is a toaster but that’s because I bought the combination air fryer/toaster oven. Also I have a dedicated pop-up toaster (which is great for plain bread and Pop Tarts but less so for anything that needs to sit horizontally).

Google authenticator and MS’s app both have pretty straighforward methods for transfering to a new device. 

Letting water circulate moves heat from the ground (fairly steady all year) into your pipes. Unless you’re far below zero, this will prevent the water in the circulating pipe from freezing.

In the south our pipes are not insulated in like the ones up north.

Yeah—to reduce the spider population in your space, make it less accessible and less appealing to the critters that spiders eat. Instead of thinking of spiders as undesirable in themselves, realize that they’re there because of Other Undesirable Things. As long as the OUTs are there the spiders will help to control the…

if you live in filth maybe you want more spiders, because spiders eat bedbugs lololol

Easiest way to keep spiders in check is to keep house centipedes. They eat spiders.

I mean, they literally crawl on the ceiling above my bed, soooooo....

Many years ago I started tracking games on cheapshark.com. you sat a target price and get a notification when any online store hits that price. You can also see historical pricing. It's gotten a little noisy for me since I need to adjust too many prices down or remove some games.

I think it makes sense for a kid. They typically care less about the setup process and only about jumping in and playing. Plus, on holidays, the servers get overwhelmed to the point where an update that should take a few minutes can take ages to download due to demand. Add in the excitement of the kid wanting to play…