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Brokenwood - or maybe it's Brokenwood Mysteries. It's a New Zealand mystery thing, more comedy than drama, hour and a half format, 4 - 6 shows/season, with an assortment of wacky side characters. I watched seasons 1 through 7 on Hoopla (free from my library) and signed up for Acorn to get 8...

I'm like chuckanut and got mine after DH died because I now live alone. I've also used the find my phone, which is useful but every time I've done that it just saved me from looking around the house more. I got the SE (cheapest model) and like it much more than I thought I would. As a watch...

I did it years ago and it seemed to help, though my vertigo wasn't bad. I have a friend who had vertigo so bad she couldn't get out of bed. She was treated by being put on a table where they moved her and the problem disappeared immediately.

My first W2 job was in the summer working for a pharmacist at the drugstore he owned. Not sure how much I got paid my first summer but by the second I was making $1/hr. I was also doing the cash register opening and closing (counting the money), making deliveries, and picking up something for...

I guess I'm glad to see I'm not crazy having several pairs of glasses around. I have one pair of prescription progressives with prism for general wear, i.e. distance and driving. I have drugstore progressives with a different range and no prism for computer and I use single vision readers from...

Not strangers but I paid moving costs and furniture storage fees for a few years for someone I knew somewhat. I gave him additional money and bought him toiletries and clothes. He had drug addiction problems and was able to kick it (I also visited him in rehab). He's been sober a number of...

We recently watched Restless and I recommend it. It's a decade old. We got it on Hoopla but I think it's also available on Amazon Prime. Spies (vs our usual murder mystery fare). We only have access to Season 1 and there is a Season 2 but you don't need to see #2 to enjoy #1.

We have never had cable/satellite TV. Got a Roku pre-2011, I think - did they have them then? I think it was before we moved in 2011 but could be wrong. For awhile we watched free movies on that but mostly did DVDs from library. When digital TV came in we got so many more channels. But...

I'm probably too late to this game but here goes. DH and I both have United CCs and have for years. He just switched to a different one so gets all those signup bonuses. We're already lifetime United Gold because of all DH's previous flying so already got free bags, free priority seating and...

If you go to the Hague check out the Escher Museum.

Last April we stayed at the Park Plaza Vondelpark hotel. We paid between $200 and $250 a night. It was perfect. It's about a block to the tram that goes past the museums on its way into the city center. You can walk to the museums in 15 minutes so I guess it's less than a mile (DH walks...

My worry was that baby boomers may hold most of the stock and as they age then the first ones out will have many buyers but the later ones out not so many and thus lower stock prices. An investment guy told me younger groups are buying stocks so that won't be a problem but I'm not all that sure...

My initial thoughts were similar to those of Dawgman. I'd worry that unless your son makes alot of money, his eagerness to spend beyond his means to please his fiance could mean they will continue to live above their means. I fully understand how a wedding of reasonable size plus honeymoon...

We've been to Japan a number of times from spring through fall including a month that spanned cherry blossom season in Tokyo and a month in the fall (also in Tokyo that but too early for leaves turning). Cherry blossom time was amazing if you don't mind the crowds. I've ended up confounded...

The people in the article may well reflect WSJ paid subscribers living NY, Chi, MD and with multiple homes. Made me think of the article I read in the NYT in the 70s about the poor out-of-work stockbroker who sold home-made chocolate mousse out of his car to former colleagues to help make up...