No matter how old you are, dropping a thousand bucks on anything feels horrible. That mostly means it’s easy to put off long-term investments and make Future You, the sucker who has to deal with Present You’s laziness and bad ideas, deal with it. After all, Future...
The vet bills started pouring in almost immediately after my girlfriend and I adopted our dog. He came with some parasitic worms (gross, I know), which required a $150(ish) vet visit and a $50(ish) dewormer. Shortly after that, he came down with an ear infection, so the...
In the 17th century, knowing when to abandon a sinking ship was easy, due to the fact that the ship was quite literally sinking. Today, however, in a world overrun with modern-day corporate pirate ships, knowing when to bail on a failing start-up or collapsing legacy brand...
Conventional wisdom (and your mom) says that you should always wash new clothes before putting them on. But like, I want to put these new jorts on right now because they make my thighs look thicc, soooo… what to do? Unfortunately, washing them before wearing them is...
We all know gold is valuable and pretty much always has been. For much of human history, it was money itself. Then we switched to paper money, which was… somehow tied to gold? Basically, anyway: It was called the gold standard, but it’s no longer actually our...
We’ve already written about how yellow underarm stains are caused by the aluminum in your antiperspirant. But what about the gross ochre stains that appear on the collar of your button-down shirts? After all, it’s not like you’re rubbing deodorant on your neck. According to just about...
It’s not just serial killers who’ve wondered how to remove blood stains. It’s not only clumsy folk who’ve pondered how to remove red wine stains, or desperately typed in the words, “remove chocolate stain” as their dessert enthusiastically smears into their new white couch. We’ve all had...
It was the summer of 2007, and I was checking out apartments for my upcoming senior year of college. After being shown a handful of locations by a student rental service, I arrived at a decent-sized apartment that my realtor went on to describe thusly as we...
You’ve no doubt heard the stories of pizzerias who never wash their pans, and the avid bakers who do likewise. They do (or rather, don’t do) this, the legend goes, because the years of flavor baked into those pans is imparted to each new batch of baked...
Humans, as you know, need food to survive — and many humans, as you may also know, have a lengthy, complicated relationship with food, which might help explain why sharing it can be so incredibly frustrating. But when you share a home with someone — be it...
It’s well understood that couples face any number of battlegrounds upon shacking up to supply the abode with goods and victuals. Among the most notorious is shopping at one popular Swedish furniture store, where psychologists have deemed the place a literal “map of a relationship nightmare,” where...
My nights are mostly spent competing with both my girlfriend and our 70-pound pitbull for bed space. We have a queen bed, which was (kinda) enough when it was only the two of us. But when we adopted our dog, he insisted on taking up as much...