Lets just pretend that never happens/ed.

Im on the opposite end, when my wife thanks me for something I feel is standard action, I take it as a backhanded comment. Example: Thanking me for changing our childs diaper. Come on, just thank me for not putting it on backwards, at least then its not ambiguous (because being passive aggressive is weaksauce).

Just to add to that, you could have a completely egalitarian marriage, and the interaction with others shifts some burden. For example when my wifes mother comes over and cleans (she does so bi monthly -its her trade- and we pay her) she will complain about my wife not cleaning enough, she mostly makes comments in…

Any tips on converting ones self and others to this minimalism? It sounds...beautiful.

I like your style.

There is no upside. Many people just believe they should, or worse a desperate beleif that a marriage is the glue to their relationship, when the opposite is true, and if you take out marriage the relationship should hold itself together. Its a commitment device, that should be pointless.

I hope she doesn't also get angry that not enough people adopt. Yeah the shelter has costs, just like any charity organization, who all have to find donors. There are people who have money to donate who cant take in, or just dont want additional pets, and there are good families who may have a hard time covering the…

I can actually agree with that, if the fee covers the actual (vs an inflated one) cost of a service necessary for the pet, I could fudge the line and see it as free. But every shelter around my area I have encountered charges an average of 150, with the lowest I have seen being $75, and the fee was almost always…

I have never looked into getting cats. But they may be cheaper because you never really can adopt a cat as a pet, you can only feed and house it (like a zoo does for many wild animals). Maybe they should just relabel the cat adoption fee as "cat transfer fee."

Another slant on the question would be What are things that people often dont pay money for because they are free.

Every agency I have dealt with has an adoption fee, and its not unusual for it to be $150+ dollars. Below is the chart for dogs from the Denver Dumb Friends League:

"It's free in that you don't have to put down a nearly $1000 deposit up front to get two brand new smartphones before getting service."

By that (poor) logic college is free for many, since many pay for school completely with loans. (Loans that will stay with you through bankruptcy.)

Also to invert the question, often people tend to undervalue things they get for free, or undervalue the time it takes to get said thing for free. For example plenty of things are free after rebate, but that does not mean there is no opportunity cost to file for the rebate, and there is always the chance the rebate…

On topic: For me the big one was audiobooks, I had avoided libraries on the assumption that I would need to deal with returns, and trips. I purchased several audiobook bundles (humble bundle has them every few months), and several books on audible. I then stumbled upon Overdrive (i believe there are other like…

Didnt the "hackers" claim to have stopped the "attack" yesterday? If so, why is PS4 still down? Is it possible to physically damage servers with a DDoS attack? If not, it makes me wonder too if the "hackers" are full of shit, or if they were only a small part of the problem. Unless the attack continues only on one…

Go to settings, I forget which one but tell your system not to connect to the internet, I was having the same issue on several games until I deselected this option.

Yeah, and if you follow this article, you can make double that amount by forcing your children to do the same. IF you aren't already doing so, then what are you waiting for???? Get a move on it!

I dont know if I understand what your argument is, so I dont even know how to properly respond. I will contend that I am not arguing "how can we ever know anything." Instead I am arguing the "how can we know THIS", expanded further 'how do we prove a negative' (true # of false reports). How do we know when someone is…

Let's not be silly. I am not asking how to look up stats, I am asking how you *know* information, with any strong certainty, when that information is close to -if not- impossible to know.