Not sure why I haven’t done stock in the microwave before. Makes sense. Will definitely try it.

Always remove the fat. Then use it to make dumplings or biscuits. It also works great for sautéing onions, mushrooms, or potatoes. You, Claire, would probably make schmaltz butter or mayo with it but I’m not that ambitious.

People said, “Why would I pay $1+ per light bulb for an LED light when I can buy an incandescent one for 25 cents?” I replaced all my lights about 5 years ago, and haven’t had to replace one. So I’m using less energy, which saves me money, and I didn’t have to replace my bulbs every year, so saving 25 cents per bulb…

I also get free GrubHub+ with my Prime membership, which saves me up to $7-10 in fees per order.  

Use a brush first to loosen the debris and rinse it away before using the sponge.

I had a cunning plan for this and it worked. I knew I’d be traveling to Florida this week (I graduated in UF before the state went bonkers and have friends there) so I scheduled my appt here, figuring that since their Governor told people to *not* get the shot that it would be easy. And it totally was. In and out in <1…

What’s your return on 30 years of monthly rent?

Many homes purchased in 2014 in a decent metropolitan area have already doubled in value. And it’s not written in stone that you have have to take 30 years to pay it off. Extra principal payments add up over time. I wouldn’t buy a home as an “investment”, but I sure don’t want to 1) pay someone else’s mortgage with…

That may or may not be true, but if you decide to move you still get proceeds from the sale. If you were to rent for that entire time you’d be out every cent you spent. 

I am immediately skeptical of anyone saying buying a home is not an investment.  You need to pay for that shelter anyways and that money is going right into someone else’s mortgage.  IF you can buy a house (a tough task to be sure), your dollars used to buy that home will likely improve with the market around you,…

The buying a house one is flatly wrong. There are definitely inopportune times to buy (this being one of them), but for a myriad of reasons, not the least of which that the US – and to some extent global – housing machine is a beast that far too many people, businesses, and governments have interest in continuing till…

The “risks posed by sea level rise are minimal” in Denver? It’s literally a mile above sea level. If the sea level gets that high we have a much bigger problem. Unless their basing that on Denver’s dependency on other locations/goods from low lying areas. If so, then you could say that about just about every city in…

Can we stop this trend of putting microwaves less than 2 feet above the stove top?

Sarcasm, in this space, is just becoming so boring and unneeded. Just another form of negativity all are so tired of seeing from the hate spreaders poisoning society. As the verbiage  says, " if nothing good to say, clam up".  Sarcasm has two forms. One, funny. One hurtful. Your's ain't funny.

I love Ted Cruz outcrying that this indictmenthasn’t happened to any past president. Like..... yeah. That’s the point. That’s why he’s awful.

GOOD MORNING AMERICA!!!!!

All of those things can be bought used-try a small engine repair place, they get a lot of mowers that the fix up and sell cheap. rakes, tools,all that stuff can be had used for half or less of the new price.

That completely depends on the market your’re in and the circumstances of the seller. There’s often no need to sweeten the deal in a hot market.

If you do the math, you’ll see that a $100k mortgage would result in over $7k in interest expense for the first year. This is larger than the standard deduction of $6300 (for 2015) - and it doesn’t even take into account taxes and such... so in most cases, a new home buyer will likely benefit with a tax-deduction with…

Very true if you have a basement, not as big of an issue in areas where basements don’t really exist