I was trying to do this last night with something simple - biscuits. My son (4) just couldn’t be ‘truly’ helpful and it became an exercise in him redoing what I just did. I do want to get his help more in the kitchen, but its been a struggle.

I’m with you, I keep myself out of discussions like this as I’m not normal, but I remember when I balled seriously, and watching the team try to do chin ups was hilarious, like the real small guys could do it, but the majority of us were excited to get 5 or so, and I’m talking super in shape people (again not myself…

Bah, why didn’t I think about this before, not so much the shallots, but making my own dressing. Been on a huge salad kick (trying to get right, and while I won’t eat salad forever, its helping me transition to healthier eating in a more sustainable way) and am always nervous about the calories in pre-made dressings.…

Go to your banks website, get either an excdel or PDF export of your past 12 monthly statements (a calendar year). If not in excel, get it into excel. Add filtering.. Sort by where you spent each transaction (like amazon or exxon). Add a column and label it ‘gas’ or ‘web purchase’ or ‘home maintenance’ or ‘video…

Yeah that is hilarious. I’ve been in various ‘states’ of ‘ruts’ in music pretty much my whole life up to this point, so I’m very acquainted with ‘not finishing’ the details. The only times I’ve been successful were the times I forced myself, when I said “I’m going to have ‘Monkey Off My Back’ done by Tuesday, May…

I agree with the process, the issue however is that there is creation and good creation, and often the ‘good’ is found in the details, and those details are carved from the flesh of the last 15%. Without focusing in on a goal, it can be real easy to get the bulk of the idea out and never shred it down. I do music and…

I keep trying to tell my sister (she’s in college), stop wasting money on the fruity and weird stuff, it forces you to buy a bunch of different types, just buy regular and you can MAKE the flavor you want.

I keep meaning to try this when I do steak, I was reading about a really weird way of doing steak where you freeze it first, but they did this as it made the skin crispy during the ‘fry’ portion (it was a weird prep, but in theory should work). But, I just haven’t had steak much this summer.

The difference is simple, most of the time I’m not ‘trying’ (well wasn’t) trying to strike up a conversation with a guy, so the goal is completely different. If I approach a woman to get to know her better that’s the ‘approach’ if you will, I don’t/didn’t approach guys to get to know them better, its a ‘goals’…

No no no, you misunderstand me. When you are trying to initiate conversations with a woman you just met, you do not ask one word response questions - period, you won’t get anywhere, that doesn’t form a conversation. I’m saying approach kids the same way, you don’t ask how old are you. You get one word back and that’s…

Treat kids like you do women you are trying to ‘holla’ at. You ask them a question that isn’t a simple “yes/no/other one word response”. Don’t ask how old they ask them what they got for their last birthday or what they want for their next birthday. What was the last thing they learned how to do that was ‘cool’?

It feels...”different” this time. It’s real easy to say “I want to lose weight”, its another thing completely to do so in a maintainable manner, and maintain it. I frankly don’t ‘care’ if I win or not, I just need to make significant strides in the right direction and the people involved felt genuine, like there is a…

I’m over 50% obese right now (per BMI calculator, not the law, but good enough for context) and going through the motions to reduce my weight. A few friends and I threw money in a pot. And I’m working on making myself better. With that said, I actually used to be a personal trainer. I studied my butt off. Life and…

I don’t rent anymore, but the thing that always got me was when your lease was up and they wanted to raise it. I became nomadic because I would get great deals on the rent, but the next year it would go up so much that it wasn’t worth staying. The only time I didn’t relocate was when the housing market was crashing…

Ugh the two in my situation are separate, it doesn’t matter if I’m stressed or not, for the immediate future I have to work, I could sell my house and move to an apartment to save as much money as possible and I would still have to work to pay for my kids. And so long as someone is working, stress of some sort will…

Hell yeah...

No.

we are at 4 and counting hehe, when Nathan goes off to college, I’m planning on packing it into one of his boxes hehe. “Trophy” is a good way to look at it though. They didn’t get us the second time, we came with everything and did everything we could to not get ‘gamed’ by the system.

Any time there is a discussion about finances and the argument about temporal vs lasting pleasure comes up, everyone always forgets that situation is important. Yes its a waste of money to ‘just eat out’, but when you’ve been stressed all week long at work and need to kick back...it isn’t a waste, you’re buying your…

I just wanted to give a secondary nod to this. A lot of things you can save a bunch of money on through couponing, being smart about purchases, hand me downs, thrift stores, etc. But what it really comes down to (saying this with a 4 year old and a 5 1/2 month old) is the actual totality of cost just ends up being…