We renew our Costco membership every year. We shop there every couple months, and yes, we do buy those big packages of tissues and toilet paper. But we have a place to store them. We also get things like razor blades, jars of mixed nuts, and clothing (the Kirkland jeans are surprisingly good).

I have been trying to talk my husband into this for a very long time. Our back yard is paved with concrete (not our doing, it was that way when we bought the house) and he’s absolutely convinced that that will poke holes in the pool. I suggested that we put a nice big drop cloth under the pool but that still doesn’t…

Well, what can I say, my kids were born in 1977 and 1980. I suppose “take away their phones and keep the Xbox in the living room too” might cover it.

Put the computer used by the children in the living room. 

I worked at a large urban public library that didn’t have porn filters on its public computers. The librarians (who didn’t have to supervise the computer area, ever) thought it would be an “invasion of privacy” to regulate the use of those computers in any way.

That living breathing hack Jesse James got a whole show (Monster Garage) out of doing stupid pointless unnecessary things with vehicles.

My son built a Chewbacca at Build A Bear for his niece (my granddaughter) for Christmas.

Indiana Jones and the battle for the nursing home TV remote.

I found this fantastic recipe for roasted green beans with sesame oil. Made it several times successfully... until the day I picked up the bottle of fish sauce instead of the sesame oil. It took days to get the smell of burnt fish sauce out of the house. I’ve never even tried that recipe since.

I did that the very first time I tried to cook a turkey.

Good thing my mom died of lung cancer before vaping became popular because she would have gone broke buying vapes while feeling virtuous that she’d “quit smoking.”

As opposed to HBO’s forever plan of playing the same 5 movies 60 times a week?

Gee, ya s’poze it’s because the house was built long before a/c was an option and we’re not rolling in money?

My mother grew up in a small fishing village in Nova Scotia where no one was taught to swim because the water in the Bay of Fundy is so cold that chances are if someone fell in the water they’d die of hypothermia before they could swim to safety. At least that’s the way it was explained to me.

HAHAHAHAHA.....  Let me introduce you to my brother, who has an iPhone because someone at the phone store sold it to him, and who’s got a hot career driving for UberEats.

Try Readerware instead. Not free, but worth every penny. Take it from  someone who’s got bookshelves in every room in the house except the bathroom (but we do have a bookshelf right outside the bathroom door in the hall).

I’m reporting 117f in Burbank yesterday and yes it’s insane.

Wasn’t all that much cooler in North America.

Not a chance. Nobody in this family including my 4yo granddaughter has any use whatsoever for Alexa.

Adding a/c to a house built in 1930 that was never designed for a/c would take far more money than we can afford. So we do the best we can.