I loved taking the cabs to Costco and Walmart. It was awesome and super convenient.

Oh wow. I had a totally different experience. We stayed at Pueblo Bonito Rose past all the all-inclusive stuff and near the downtown area. We went in September. The weather was perfect, we swam in the ocean, walked downtown and saw TONS of families with children. To the point that we felt out of place on our honeymoon.

The most useful information I learned about buying a house was from taking some Real Estate licensing classes offered through Kaplan. I took the classes without the intention of taking the licensing exam but wanted to know more about the real estate process. I took the first course for $275 or so. Well worth it for…

You can as long as the LTV (Loan to Value ratio) fits within the parameters. If you need 80% LTV but you were planning on putting more down or your appraisal came back higher (or both) you can still take out 80% and then use the remaining funds for whatever you’d like - a repair, pay off a student loan, etc. They will…

Something I learned on Lifehacker!

There have been many articles debunking how much water an individual needs per day.

I started doing it with movies. It’s too easy to obtain a lot of digital movies with Amazon/iTunes/etc. I had to start to think about how many times I’d watch them before I purchase them.

Absolutely agree. Students are leaving college with so much debt. Some of the federal loans you can pay back over 20 years. It’s absurd to think that an individual should not start investing until loans are paid off.

Mine was way off too. Consider the source. Fidelity is here to sell you a product.

Maybe it was because Apple can send directions from the Map app within OS X to an iOS device so Google wanted to put it there first to show an alternative? Just thinking out loud.

Refi your student loans with SoFi! I’m going to do the same with my 6% student loans as soon as our home refi closes. We refi’d to get rid of our PMI because we bought in 2011 and values have gone up so much. Anyways - we’re taking that old PMI money and investing it in a buy and hold portfolio.

I’d love a shirt to wear during a run that says on the back: “I’m PR’ing like nobodies business”

Great tip. I use synthetic, do not drive a lot of miles, and live in the midwest (cold winters, hot summers). Both cars have 140k+ miles. I change my oil in April and October. I never hit the mileage but figure 6 months is good time to do it - and I usually hit good weather to do it in the garage. I should send in the…

Or throw a piece of bread in there. That works too.

I agree with MN. If the Wolves return to relevance I’m much more likely to see them in Chicago than Oklahoma City.

I was depositing a check inside my credit union and over-heard a banker tell a customer that an auto loan was the best way to repair his credit. This was followed by the banker telling the customer his loan was approved but at a high interest rate.

I tried a pasta feed before a half marathon once and it was the worst run of my running career. My stomach was full the entire race and quickly emptied after the run. It was not pleasant. I’ve done pasta 2 days before and that has worked out better for my stomach. I don’t know that there is a benefit to eating pasta 2…

Thank you for sharing. Like you I went down some of those roads between 4th and 10th grade. Everything was thrown out by 11th grade but teachers and parents had a pretty great time trying to push a label on me rather than think they were part of the problem (looking at you MOM and DAD!).

Great article. Can you speak more about your Asperger’s diagnosis? Was that accurate? Any more thoughts on that?