I used to care about the free games until (1) they h0nestly went the combination of “crap” and/or already cheap games, (2) I unplugged my 360 for a solid year (only hooking it back up for a big Skylander splurge-fest), and (3) I realized “I never play these games”. It’s Steam all over again. I’ve played like 4-5…

Anyone know a good place to get a synopsis of the current best places to sell stuff? I used to be a Power Seller on eBay, but the rules changed and the cost increased right after I “retired”. Since then I’ve heard amazon is the place to sell, but I just don’t know and have tons of things to sell.

Bah, when I said “Cards” I meant like gift cards and the such, I try to keep my CCs off my account, Sony’s been hacked too many times.

I “Try” to pay for services like that through cards, not just for security purposes, but you can find more deals that way. That’s what surprised me so much when I got the notice about a renewal in Dec.

Yep, out of sight, out of mind, within a week, my son doesn’t even remember that we have a bunch of candy (well what he considers a bunch is a joke by my standards as a kid)

I like our solution. We have a jar for candy. We get candy and put it in the jar, the jar is kept completely out of sight. Our kids know it exist, but don’t think about it, so by the time we get to the following Halloween, we can throw out the old candy.

eh...that was less a play and most likely their movement set - so James knew someone should be heading there, but it wasn’t designed for that side to get the ball at that angle. There are NOT many plays that are designed with cross court passes in mind, let alone FULL cross court passes. You have the UNC double…

Oh, also, a lot of people get things like XBOnes and PS4s around the holidays. One of the first things they do is tie a bank account or credit card to it to turn on the online service, often with a year long or six month plan. This means while you may not be thinking about it, that “automatic renewal” is just around…

Where it is real easy to lose “our” head with holiday spending is the travel. Going to all the different places for Thanksgiving and Christmas, can really become taxing financially - sure there is the obvious gas, but simple things like Coffee to stay up, stops because “kids”, impromptu last minute gifts, etc - can…

I’m in the group of people who want a super powerful laptop (music). the issue though is the intersection of Price/Performance/Aesthetics is just not kind at all.

I took my lumps when I got out of college, not going to get into that as that’s less what I wanted to speak on this. The real key as alluded to in the first part - its calculating what you can truly afford, but what’s important is doing that BEFORE YOU GO LOOKING AT CARS. Its just like buying a house, if you go…

Hillary should crush Trump at the polls and while I have a huge pent-up diatribe of how poorly I think of Americans who dislike Hillary so much that they would actually vote for Trump - I’m trying to hold it in - I swear, but its still important to go vote. Yes the President has power, but actual CHANGE starts at the…

I wsa going to jump down your throat, but a I continued reading, you hit it on the head. My best friend since grade school used to get a phone every year, sometimes multiple a year, just flipping and flipping, installing custom/new ROMs etc. Me? My first smartphone was an iPhone4 (being on Verizon didn’t help). I…

I have to ask because my own attempts haven’t done anything - what’s the purpose of vodka? Never have I “cooked” with Vodka and gotten anything out of it (covering cake afterwards is a different story, but cook - no) - so what is the function of the vodka here (that would also determine what kind of vodka)?

Where I work we’ve been in the midst of modifying the existing culture and creating processes for more efficiency. ALOT of hours were burnt up early on in my employment brainstorming the process. Sure I did work on our ideas in the background, but its been very much “meetings to define what the necessary parameters…

Strat 1 is so important and Strat 5 is a “default” IMO. You don’t need to financially live like a Doomsday prepper - but assumptions get you in trouble. Putting myself out there a little, 2016 was supposed to be a great financial year for us...my son would be turning 5, and my daughter becoming a toddler - so he’s…

I dunno. I think it depends on what you are hunting and how volatile that particular market is. For me *personally*, the markets I’m always interested, don’t flex much and fall prey to artificially high MSRP by the store, so they can sell it at the REAL MSRP but say they have it on discount ($1500 piece of gear by…

Last I saw, Amazon was the WORST paying of all the streaming sites via Amazon Prime. Is that going to change now? If not, the musician in me so “NOPE”.

This works, but there is another strategy that benefits EVERYONE - “Eat like its Chinese take out”, so you may get 3 or 4 plates, but then split it amongst the whole family, so everyone can get a little bit of everything.

IMO the important thing is to be cognitive of what you are purchasing *in general*. I am a music gear SLUT, without any records out. I’m always adding stuff without putting anything out. Fortunately it is something I’ve been moving forward on, but it brings up something important - that also affects this.