Oof, I hope that was more from driving to vacations rather than commuting

My biggest problem is that all my "2-minute tasks" that I think of, come to me when I can't do anything about them (they typically involve calling some company to follow up about something).

I think regardless of what your job is, if you get to 200 emails a day, no one should realistically expect a response to every single one. It depends on what they are and how important they are, of course. But even if you budget a single minute for each email, that's over three hours of answering messages each day.…

Money can't buy happiness? Bullshit. You know what money can buy you? A fucking waverunner. You ever see people frowning while they are on a god damn waverunner? No, you don't.

I can see that formula applying to things like a fear of rejection or stage fright. But my fear of spiders is so knee-jerk that I freeze the minute I see one (or if it's on me I flip out like a ninja and make a total idiot of myself). There's no thinking involved—it's pure, ridiculous instinct. Am I looking at this…

Aromatics, such as onion, garlic, or leeks

I wish he'd stashed his fap-kit before taking the picture.

The "Art of Presence" is a huge part of charisma. My dad got to spend some time with Bill Clinton once. Even though they were in a crowded room, and only talked briefly, my dad said Mr. Clinton made him (my dad) feel like he was the most important person in the room.

Costco has coupons as well, which they send out once a month or so. They used to require the coupon to get the applicable coupon, but everyone hated that system, the cashiers used to just keep coupons at the register to scan for members who forgot them at home, customer service was busy issuing partial refunds for…

In a perfect world, all trash bags would be considered equal, but for whatever reason, the cheap bags are always complete junk. They rip apart, the ties don't work, and they're somehow never quite the size they're advertised to be. It's definitely worth the extra buck or two to get trash bags that'll actually contain…

It doesn't really matter what brand of toilet paper you upgrade to because pretty much everything is better than the cheap stuff. Unless you're a fan of wiping up with thin sheets of printer paper, splurge a little on a decent roll of toilet paper and you'll live a happier life.

If you look at the design of nail clippers, it seems like they're probably all the same. Oddly though, that's simply not the case. A pair of 99¢ nail clippers don't work that well. In fact, they're about as effective as children's safety scissors. It's worth it to take the step up to that $2.79 pair of clippers.

Work/Life balance myth #1: Most people enjoy their job.

I'm pretty sure that chrome has a bunch of hexavalent chromium in it. So consuming it would be pretty bad for your system in the long run. So it's not a good idea to grill on anything that has a plating on it.

Grilled corn is so delicious.

I've had this argument before with people, but no you are not. "Budget" cars (basically anything under 20k dollars) don't depreciate nearly as quickly as people seem to think they do on the used market. To get an appreciable savings, you're going to have to get a car with a lot of miles on it, and every mile adds…