lifehacker: “Be THAT asshole”

"U-turns can be dangerous but are they illegal? Well, one hint is that there are signs which say “No U-Turns.” Logically, if you need a sign to tell you when you can’t do them – then they must be legal otherwise."

how about “put thirsty plants near drainage points” ?

About #2 - be sure you know the details of any mortgage with PMI - a lot of recent loans carry a % paid or date for it to drop (whichever is later). We decided to not add extra money to each payment until the PMI drops off.

It’s amazing what you can live without or delay, when it’s up to you to fix it yourself.

I always try to keep an extra $3-5K on hand for emergencies. When a salesman tried to convince me to buy “gutter helmet” for an outlandish price, I told him I needed to maintain my emergency budget so couldn’t do it. That winter my furnace died, so was glad I’d kept that emergency fund topped off.

Heres similar info from a govenment source:

From what I understand, if the collector contacts you, they’re required to send you a validation of debt within 5 days of the contact. Via the FTC website:

Wouldn’t playing music out loud be rude to everyone around you?

You’re all heathens. Heathens with swampass.

You’re all heathens. Heathens with swampass.

I think that depends on the child's behavior as well. If the child is throwing a full on tantrum in the store, "because I said so" works. If the child wants to get into it further in the car, then a better answer should be said. Then again I never had to deal with much talk back from my kids as No would have…

This a thousand times. My family's been dealing with some legal issues for a few years, my father ended up in jail over it. We never discuss it in front of the kids, the other day I randomly decided to ask my eldest where Grandpa is and he answered he doesn't know and looked away. I asked again and he told me and he…

I went to fix a wobbly ceiling fan in my bedroom once and found not only was there no box AT ALL, but that the fan was screwed into the ceiling with drywall screws. Yeah.

With Vudu he's really just using Ultraviolet, which I hope to see one day integrate with iTunes, even if that is a long way away. About bringing the library with you, that's something that Apple has attempted to solve with Airplay on iOS - if connected to someone else's wifi and their Apple TV, it will directly stream…

I installed one of those "5 minute" fans a couple of summers ago and they are definitely more than 5 minutes. Even this video, with cuts, is 20m long. Don't be fooled by the 5m claim. And if your ceiling box isn't mounted to a joist then you're crawling up in the attic on a 100F day and framing in additional…

Even if the parent is unwilling to leave you home alone with the baby, this can still be a godsend. Having another adult around for even half an hour meant I could go take a shower or nap, or zone out with a book, and know that I didn’t need to worry about the baby unless it was an emergency.

Babysitting