Looking back i really appreciate that my high school had an accounting class that not only introduced students to account, but personal finance as well. I took it in 2003 and it was appropriate for the time and technology, now it would have been pretty behind the times. Things like personal checks, atms, and balancing…

I thought the point of the non-integrated screens was to bring them up, closer to the drivers field of view.  

I have played a few different Co-Ed sports like football, softball, and kickball.  They all were very much like described, guys just trying to minimize the girls on the team and pick on girls of the opposing team.  THe one sport that I did play that seemed to not have these issues was Broomball.  I had a couple of…

Finding the right photographer was important for us. We interviewed a few but the one we really wanted, a ton of fantastic reviews and was fully booked, was unavailable on our date. He recommended a friend who was getting started. Going with his friend was a great decision. Not only was he very good, but was a very…

If you hire movers, have them come out and give you an estimate, don’t try to estimate all of your boxes yourself unless they are packed up already. I have used movers before and they always come out if you do the estimate yourself and say that there is more stuff than what you have. Let them give you their estimate…

This isn’t new and there were multiple sites that reported on this as far back as June 2017: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/12/move-apps-drag-and-drop-ios-11-iphone-video/ and Lifehacker covered this in September 2017: https://lifehacker.com/ios-11-finally-gets-app-organizing-almost-right-1818819165

Our financial adviser gave us some really good advice about what to do when we come into money, be it inheritance, tax returns, or any other way. His advice was to split the money into thirds as a start. The three groups of focus were debt payment, savings/investment, and fun. Now if breaking it into thirds doesn’t…

My mom’s pumpkin pie adds either a shot of scotch or burbon, depending what you have on hand. Adds a lot of depth.

The sweet sauce thing is pretty common outside of the Philly through NYC area. A lot of the southern US, even the east coast has a sweeter sauce. One way to cut the acid a bit without adding sugar is to add a bell pepper cut in half and add a whole onion as the sauce cooks. Once they become soft it cuts the acid, adds…

I just don’t think it is entirely practical for most people though. I live about 12 miles from my office. I bring my laptop home with me every day as we are required to. I frequently have to travel with engineering plans and reports on a weekly basis. A bike or scooter just wouldn’t make sense. My wife is a teacher…

The average commute to work in the US is 26 minutes (2015 US Census Bureau). A lot of that is driving in a car. In large cities, you can typically get by with using public transit for most of your commute but if you live outside of the city, you may have a difficult time getting to a train station or finding a way in…

2010 Ford Fusion passenger side headlight is a pain without removing the tire and wheel well liner. All other lights though are generally easy.

Let me clear a few things up for you. Yes people do drink groundwater that is untreated and not just for home wells but for some small public water sources as well. Small trailer parks, shopping centers (with food service places), industrial parks, etc. all can have well systems that do not treat the water at all or…

I completely agree. The seasoning of food as soon as you get it is up to the person eating but i do think that they should at least take a bite before adding a ton of salt and pepper. I happen to like more pepper than most people but i usually never just add it to my dish without trying it first. Even if i know I will…

My mom’s pumpkin pie recipe has 2 oz of bourbon it in. Definitely my favorite recipe.

My wife and I were traveling this summer and thought that booking at similar seat on a 757 would be nice to have that little extra legroom but we essentially had less legroom than a normal seat due to a protrusion on the exit door. I’m only 5'9" but my knee was pressing into the protrusion for our 5 hr flight. The…

So I live in the neighborhood that this took place in. My wife also teaches for the school district and apparently the kid who threw the bottle was on his first day back from getting suspended for, you guessed it, throwing bottles out of the bus windows at cars.

I agree, I have had 4 beagles, two with my parents and two with my own family. Some were very hard to train while others were great. The big thing seems to be personality and stimulation. Our beagle now is so sweet and is fantastic with my son but was very difficult to train. She was a puppy mill rescue and had…

The “touch everything” suggestion is an important one, especially if the person grew up in the depression or maybe didn’t have a lot of money growing up. When my grandmother passed a few years ago, we had to clean out her place. At first, family members were just throwing out envelopes and papers that to them looked…

It depends on the company but with my company, we may interview 10 people but only need one person, but if another office in a reasonable distance away needs people of that same level, we let those offices know the other people we liked.