At my brother’s wedding, his best man was extremely nervous. I don’t remember if it was something specific like giving a speech or just a general nervousness about having an important role in the wedding. Rather than say something to my brother about it, he decided to start drinking well before the ceremony (which was…

I understand the goal was to test out the various TikToks, but the quotes from O’Neill seem to indicate that this would not word in the manner you were trying.

We opted not to get an escrow account after we refinanced out of our FHA loan. I hated that it always had to be positive by a certain percentage, so we ended up regularly paying more per month into it than if we just handled insurance and taxes ourselves.

PowerToys also has a function to pin any window to the top. Not sure if that’s a Windows 11 exclusive feature though.

Can’t we just move the deer crossing signs to a better location? Seems stupid to tell the deer that they can cross in the middle of a highway.

I think to find out how problematic the lottery is you’d need data that I don’t think exists:
1) How much does the average person who regularly buys lottery tickets spend per/time period. Also, what percentage of their income is that? By regularly, I mean weekly or perhaps monthly or more frequently, not those that…

This drives me nuts as well. It’s a little more understandable if the parking is in a garage and valet only, but when it’s a standard lot, it’s stupid.

I don’t know, ours is pretty secure. When we lock the door, you have to pull extra hard to get it to open. We’re talking a whole 2 seconds of extra time for someone to get in.

Just to throw this out, if the person on the other end of the trip has any reservations about a dog being there (especially if it’s in their house), board the dog. It doesn’t matter what the concern is, don’t try to convince them that it’s fine or that the dog’s temperament is great or any other reason why it will…

One big caveat to this. Serious eats (and others) have done taste tests in the past that confirm people cannot tell the difference between vanilla extract (fancy or not) and imitation in most things. Cooked/baked goods pretty much removes any complexity the vanilla might have, so unless you’re using vanilla in…

I always figured the flavor difference was a result of the peanut butter to chocolate ratio. The eggs/trees/etc. have the highest peanut butter to chocolate ratio, while the minis (individually wrapped and best IMO) have the lowest.

Food for thought, where we live, the number of bathrooms impacts your sewage costs (paid with property tax every year), pretty significantly. That may be unique to our local, but it’s definitely worth looking into rules for where you live to see what kinds of long term impacts making changes to your living space like…

Maybe they added it after you commented, but the second section of slide one notes that you’ll need to verify the weight capacity of the floors (hire a structural engineer). 

Caveat, those ratios are based on gross income. My take home pay is 61% of my gross income after taxes and deductions. 28% of my gross income would be almost half my take home pay, which would not necessarily put me into a good financial position. Yes, there may be tax benefits, but you’re tax benefits only begin when…

Side effect, you can unlock your phone while it’s on your desk (when it cannot see your face). I figure it out by accident and I don’t know how finicky it is, but for me, if I hold my hand 8-12 inches away from my phone and cup it sideways towards the phone, it will unlock as if I was wearing a mask.

Not ideal for everyone, but another option is to look at Carvana, Carmax, Vroom, etc. We recently sold our near lease end 2018 Honda Pilot to Carvana. Lease buyout was around 24k (Approx. 6 months before lease end) and Carvana purchased it for around 29k. Obviously not the same payout you’d get if you bought and sold…

I am by no means an expert, so someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but below is my understanding based on the transactions I’ve been part of.

All of my electrical outlets have two screws, so twice the work. I’ll just sloppily paint around them and call it good and make the next person who owns my house question what else was shoddily done.

Yeah, I had a year trial that I cancelled by accident. Was able to get like 3 months back, but that was it. Never watched anything on it.

Your math is bad. There have been 587k deaths, but you have to divide that by the number of people in the US who have gotten COVID, not by the entire population. If I don’t have COVID, I can’t die from it, so I can’t be included in the death rate calcs. If you look at Johns Hopkins numbers right now, There have been…