If you’re going to say it’s the brackets that are changing, it would seriously help to *include* the before values so people can see the changes.

Could you fill the bag with ice (or water, then freeze it) and dip that into the juices so the fat solidifies/cools/sticks to the bag?

I accidentally sent a payment to my Bank of America credit card (only use it occasionally) instead of my Capital One card. I called BofA, they refunded my payment, but only by check. All of my legal settlements (that Zoom one comes to mind), I choose to be paid by check. It costs them more than an e-transfer.

We noticed spots of mold on some of our clothes and in the tub after each cycle, so I tried vinegar, vinegar/baking soda, then bleach - all for multiple cycles. But what really did the trick was taking it apart (top-load) and hand cleaning it. Also, we switched from pods to powder so there seems to be less build up so…

Could we all just decide to forget Polar Express exists? It’s as horrifying today as it has been since it was released. 

Taking away the high contrast on the weather app, which now typically puts white text on bright blue for me in California, I’m sure looked great on someone’s full-screen monitor during the middle of the workday, but as the first thing my watch shows me when I wake up, it’s a hell of a lot harder to parse at 6 a.m.…

Someone I worked with had tons of days to burn, so came up with a brilliant plan. Take alternate Friday/Monday combos off. 4 days work, 4 days off, 4 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, repeat. Worked great for travelling to sailing contests.

Only Bowie can pull off the Bowie.

Crows are wonderful. We had two different crows (in different states) befriend the family (my mother is a bird lover and feeds them all - or did). The story about the neighbor resonates. The crown in Indiana that loved my mom would holler, LOUDLY, when the next door neighbor visited. Territorial issues were suspected…

That story had no business being as good as it was. You’ve earned a fan, good sir.

This is “Give a Crappy Handmade Gift for Christmas” not “Give a nice Handmade Gift for Christmas”

I went the handmade route one year by taking a couple sets of generic round cork coasters and tying Turk’s-head knots in colored paracord worked flat (like this), and then glued the knots in place on top of the coaster to ensure that the knot would remain flat and not get twisted up. Because I was using a fairly…

Hello guy who has never stopped to consider that his own reading comprehension is sometimes shit.

This is evil - my father-in-law gave this to my first born child. So loud and annoying - great gift to give back to the giver so your child can play with it at their house!

My brother, childless at the time, gave my son a Fisher-Price “music set” that had a tambourine, maracas, a harmonica and a couple of drumsticks packed inside a drum.

Back in the day...

If you give a ‘1001 knock knock jokes’ to a child of a certain age you can almost guarantee a parental nervous breakdown within two weeks. Honestly, doing this is a favorite of mine.

Conversely, we got a set of four pop-up squares of different sizes and a collapsible tube (basically something like the below) that is possibly the best gift ever given. The whole thing folds down to *nothing* and is super easy to store, can be wiped out, and I swear to god my kids got a decade of play out of it, and…

I think all these are good except the choking hazard one. That’s a line that shouldn’t be crossed.