I got more online bank/investment accounts than I ever imagined while settling my mom's estate -- I needed access to hers. Plus I use my own.
I suspect that Michael Lewis' Vanity Fair article The End had more specific things to say about the crash than that four minute video, but I was unable to watch the video on my computer, so I can't compare them.
The Good Sheet's graphic timeline was interesting.
I already knew about Craigslist (and its many scandals! Murder! And other stuff!), but have never used it, and probably won't. :)
FrugalDad had some okay suggestions, but nothing earth-shattering. I'm from good German upper midwestern stock and both my parents grew up in the Depression; I'm already doing most of that stuff.
"Reuse bath towels. Sounds gross at first, but think about it – you are clean when you get out of the shower. Hang up towels after each use to thoroughly dry, and only add them to the dirty clothes pile after every three or four uses."
Until I was well into adulthood, I never knew there were people who DID wash towels every day.
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Seriously, did your parents, or do you, wash bath towels after every use? Jim says his mom did, but it was only by default. There were at least four boys in the house when Jim was growing up, so six people with one bathroom. Jim says they each hung their towel up after use, but then when he went in for a shower they were still all wet with no room to dry. so what he'd do is throw them all on the floor and get a dry, clean one.
I was like, "Bleah. If I knew my wet towel got thrown on the floor and walked on after I used it, I'd get a clean one, too."
The people we bought our house from had no *towel bars* in the bathroom. So I assume she washed theirs every time.
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