Yeah I remember getting a container with just watermelon in it and maybe a few grapes and it rang up to $15. I could out right buy 3 large watermelons at that price, and that was in 2000. On the flipside I could get a super big reuben for like $5 or a steak and cheese for $5. Hardly anyone ate the healthy foods…

As someone who was a health nut before and after college but not during, I will say there are a couple important variables that affected my dieting.

The two biggest ones to me are length, 16” minimum does sound about right, though too long and it can be difficult to maneuver and be heavier, and the other thing is the ‘grip’. I highly recommend tongs that have that seashell shape/grooves, and not the metal frame triangular or square ones. Those are great fr sizable…

Don’t have time atm to do more than speed read through the article, but I wanted to make an additional recommendation, the idea of roasting or high heating chiles works wonder for all kinds in multiple situations. If you’ve ever gotten jalapeno bread, it often feels weak, and kind of ‘meh’. Slice it and throw it in…

I just wanted to co-sign. I was bad with debt in college (sort of, just had no income and relied on credit to get me through my last year). One of my cards went to collections (it was around 1200 at the time). I was dodging them until I got a job out of school. At that point I finally picked up, they just wanted…

I used to lift to failure, when I did, I was a basketball player during the offseason. I don’t remember the numbers anymore, but for most exercises I started at like 40% @ a high rep, and with each set, I increased until I got to one rep of my max. Then I dropped down to I believe it was 60 or 80% and lifted to…

*insert joke about Kanye reupholstering*

For “us” we base income off take-home, retirement isn’t take-home, at least right now. So all the math is based off take home.

It is SUCH a lost art. There have been times where I go over budget on a purchase, not a problem I tell myself, I’ll cut back my spending, I won’t eat out for a month or two, I’ll do this that etc, I’ll lower my expenditures *period*. My wife then ask me how do I plan on recovering the money...like I just told you, by…

We started off like that with equal percentages, but that lasted a week, the differential didn’t make sense. So say I was 60% of our income and she was 40%, that’s what percent towards bills and the such we contributed, if power was $100, I put $60 towards it. The problem with THAT evolution was as a teacher she…

Best of luck. We stole the idea from my parents who ironically are the same as us, engineer & teacher. I figured it worked for them and their income differential, it should work for us. When we got engaged we opened an account at PNC per family recommendation, and I setup automatic withdraw from my account, so each…

They say finances are the #1 thing that ruins marriages. I’m a firm believer that upon engagement, couples need to either take some type of course on the subject or dig into it until it hurts.

Step 1 is admitting there is a problem haha. Once my wife and I admitted that we differ financially, we understood that not only do we want different things and that points our direction, but it also changes our outlooks on how to handle matters short and long. Admitting these differences makes it way easier to talk…

I’d like to add one thing to the ‘being a jerk’ portion. It’s not as simple as how much work a drink is. Know where you are. If you are at a bar where its mostly the young crowd, sometimes bartenders don’t even KNOW what some of the old fashioned drinks are, even if they are super simple. The looks I got when I asked…

I was in a weird position. I wasn’t being fired so much as they were closing shop in my region and I was unwilling to relocate *again*. I ‘knew’ it was coming and began my job search while I still had a job. I did extremely well in my interviews, but between wanting ‘the right’ job, and market, I struggled to find…

That’s how I handle most video games and movies now. Sure there are planned outliers, but they don’t quantify as impulse. Me buying the X:DOFP Rogue Edition was almost impulse, but I stopped myself from buying the digital version a couple weeks earlier when watching all the XMen movies. Not only did I feel better…

I’m with Verizon, but what I think is paramount to my situation is that I don’t upgrade just to have the newest phone, I’ve to date only had two smartphones (iPhone4 and Note4). I do the common method of 2 year contract + subsidized. I don’t switch phones enough for it to be useful to buy the phone outright. comparing…

I’m so with you, sweet drinks are universally the devil, most folks don’t even realize that that is what’s undercutting their fights with weight. It took some issues to happen to set me on the right and narrow...a combination of focus, will power, and fruit. Find juicy fruit, the limes, lemons, oranges, etc. Slice…

While I’m in the camp that doesn’t feel charcoal is any better than gas (not getting into it), this is one of those times where I concede openly to charcoal. You can do something ‘similar’ with say fish, if you nest it on top of lemons for instance, you can put those stems on top of the lemon before you put the fish…

I personally have to be careful with pita chips, its too easy to eat too many of them and erase the benefits. I think that’s the big benefit of popcorn, assuming its not drenched in butter, its actually pretty low cal for the amount of ‘snacking’ it involves.