On thing to look into is how health insurance works and how your child is covered. My wife and I have two different health insurance plans. Our son was born with a congenital birth defect and spent 3 months in the hospital. Because my wife's birthday falls first in the calendar year he was covered under her out of…

I never understood the draw to McDonald's coffee. I've tried it a few times from a few different locations and the coffee is always too hot and tastes burnt. Maybe I've always gone at a bad time...

I find the best defense against Creepers is using obsidian.

PS4 bundle is showing 594 for me.

People also fail to take into account their standard deduction when calculating their mortgage deduction. The government already allows a couple filing jointly to deduct something around 13k from their income. In the example above, if that person had no other deductions (unlikely I know) then the realized deduction…

Anyone happen to know where one might get that outfit?

I 100% agree with this. We've bought wrapping paper from a local dollar store before and I had to wrap the gifts twice to make sure you couldn't see through the paper. When you look at the price per square foot, it's probably still cheaper to buy nicer paper elsewhere. Costco is a good place, the paper lasts forever…

You can't just look at the increase in value of the home when deciding whether or not its an investment because you are typically paying for a mortgage. During the first half of your mortgage payoff you're paying mostly against interest and very little against principal. Lets assume that you've purchased a home for…

The reviews are pretty mixed on both Best Buy and Amazon, but at $100 it might be cheap enough to jump in, any thoughts?

The reviews are pretty mixed on both Best Buy and Amazon, but at $100 it might be cheap enough to jump in, any thoughts?

Monoprice's Premium 5.1 Home Theater system is down to 189 on Rakuten today.

Amazon is selling the Jackery 5600maH Portable battery pack for 23 today only:

I have a family history of low cholesterol and my cholesterol levels were flagged during a life insurance application. The referenced range for LDL was 74 to 148 and mine was 35. Also, my Cholesterol was 85 with a referenced range of 140-250. They flagged both of these as being outside acceptable ranges. My HDL…

Rakuten's Monoprice premium 5.1 speaker set is coming up at 236, am I missing something?

Something to keep in mind, this type of situation can put the company you work for in a bit of a grey area. In some states, there are defamation laws that forbid employers from saying anything that is not true and could cause you to lose your job offer. To avoid potential lawsuits a lot of companies put HR policies…

This is by no means a solution for everyone, but my wife and I started using emeals.com. The service costs $5-$7 per month depending on how long you sign up for and they give you a weekly meal plan and a shopping list. If you use the classic menu they have a number of stores that they try to match meals with those…

I've found that it's great for syncing a large number of photos (10+ GB). You could also use it for a modest MP3 collection although I have other services that provide storage and streaming for that already, but image syncing or just having an additional place to store my pictures is pretty nice and its not affected…

At work, we have two networks. We use both of them, one of them gets us into corporate data, one of them allows VPN connections to clients (don't ask, this is just corporate policy). Right now we can't use both of them together reliably (I've gotten it to work a handful of times, but more often than not either…

I would actually prefer that. As soon as companies continue to up their competition we're more likely to get awesome gadgets more often as each company will have its own release schedule. As soon as we can get away from the constant barrage of lawsuits they're all throwing at each other anyway.

I agree with DragonPhyre, Adding/Subtracting 10 and then 2 is faster than adding/subtracting 12. I haven't had two since I was in high school when I decided that military time was cooler, but this made the conversion much quicker, at least for me.