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We also have the Ninja Foodie Digital Air Fryer Oven. It replaced a Breville toaster over which was wonderful but it was a basic model without convection so limited to baking and toasting. The Ninja does that plus air frying and dehydrating. I have a small kitchen so the fact that it folds up...

We use a Moho leaf antenna and get tons of free OTA channels. Additionally we have a Roku TV and the Roku Channel provides lots of live TV options. Interestingly enough, the only network station that doesn't come in on the antenna is Fox. We happen to like the weather guy on our local station...

The Apple Watch (a smart wristwatch) is different from the Watchman device. The Apple Watch can detect abnormal heart rhythm - that's what he was referring to.

DH has been on the AARP UHC Medigap plan since he turned 65 almost 7 years ago. We signed him up for Plan F (no longer available) since he was more likely to need maximum health care coverage. I turned 65 last year and signed up with them also only plan N. We also got a discount for both of...

A tale of caution: We ditched our couch for two recliners - I thought it would be great but there were several issues. For one, they took up a bit more room width wise than I would have guessed - fine if you have room, but we don't. Secondly, we bought these pretty nice Barcalounger rocker...

I've done a a lot of business on craigslist. Yes, the replies are anonymous to keep people from getting and selling your email address for spam. I try to feel them out first because Ive had a lot of spam and odd interactions where people seem like they are fishing for information. For...

I have experienced afib episodes - it runs in my family. I have a small portable EKG gizmo from Emay that I use to take readings. It's fairly inexpensive and amazingly accurate. There is a forum called afibbersrs.org that has an absolute wealth of resources and information. It's helped me...

I had a really nice set of china - replacements.com was selling dinner plates for $10 each and I had a lot of the serving pieces that were selling in the $20-$35 range. I tried putting them on eBay at $5 each with the seller paying shipping and got zero bids. I ended up offering them up on my...

Kitchenaid makes a pretty decent manual one for those of us with arthritic hands. I bought one at a discount store (like Marshalls) because it was orange and matched my kitchen, but liked it so much I've bought them as gifts...

I love my Joule sous vide. I initially bought it thinking I would use it for tougher cuts of meat, but I've found that I prefer a melt in your mouth pot roast from the Instant Pot in less than 2 hours than a medium rare roast that looks pretty at 36 hours in the sous vide. What I have found...

I bought a Philips that was on sale at Costco for $99 right before the big surge of other brands on the market. I Joined a facebook group for Air Fryer recipes and was truly amazed at the things people do with theirs. Mine however sits mostly unused because I have a convection oven, a Breville...

Well it looks like Spectrum caught on to the fact that people were dumping them for other live streaming services. I got a letter today with an offer for their new streaming-only package with 60 channels for $14.99 a month. It also includes on demand programming but cloud DVR service is an...

I thought the regular plan was $7.99 and the commercial free was $11.99 - maybe you have an intro rate or something? I suppose the Playon would be the same thing at a lower overall cost. Nevermind. ;D

If you can afford it in your budget, I highly recommend the Hulu plus without commercials for an extra $4 a month. Totally worth it to me!

We bought the Roku Premiere streaming stick the year it came out. We've had so many problems with the remote that we put our old Roku 3 on that TV. It’s a shame since the stick is now on a 720p TV and the Roku 3 is attached to a 4K.

I also meant to mention that for those of you who have ROKU's - there is a smart phone remote app. It has a keyboard and a microphone making it easier to search, but my favorite part is that it as a feature that lets you listen through your headphones.

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I was hoping to go to the Spectrum Choice model when they raised our rates since we had abandoned the cable box in favor of the app a long time ago. It wasn't perfect, but it gave us the locals and a few other shows we liked. When my bill went up 78% I tried calling them. I was told my ONLY...

Not sure I can list 10, but the ones that come to the top of my list are: Passion Fish Second Hand Lions Sunshine State Forrest Gump

We retired in place in Austin, TX. Not a cheap place to move to, but cheap enough to stay with the over 65 property tax freeze. Kids, grandkids and good friends are here so we don't feel the need to move. Nice to see some other fellow Central Texans on here!

One checking, one savings at the credit union. A HYSA at American Express and of course our investments at Fidelity. That's it. The simpler, the better and it works for me.

It seems like insurance companies these days almost encourage you to shop around. They offer you a good intro price and then it slowly creeps up. We went with Liberty Mutual and there was no slow creep to it, it increased 25% a year and on the 4th year I shopped around and decided on AAA. So...

I have everything set up on auto-pay. If a bill will take a CC then I set that up. Otherwise, it comes directly out of checking on the due date. I've never had an issue. I did have one CC that wouldn't let me autopay the statement balance and after forgetting one payment and incurring a late...

We have lived frugally most of our lives, originally out of necessity but then it became second nature. Once you learn to make the most of what you've got, it's hard to turn back. This frugality helped us get to early retirement and will hopefully allow us to enjoy our retirement without...