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What Old Men Wish Somebody Had Told Them at Twenty-Five

Ask a man in his eighties what he'd change and he almost never says the job. He says the ears, the friends, and the questions he never asked his dad.

GuideMoneyRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20265 min

Pay yourself the payment for three months before you borrow

A $12,000 loan at 12.9 percent hands the lender $3,424. Saving the same monthly amount gets you there in 36 months instead of 48, and the math is yours to check.

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What should I wear to this?

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GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Sew on a button and mend a seam so they stay fixed

Eighteen inches of thread, a needle and a toothpick. Ten minutes of work that outlasts whatever the factory did the first time.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

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Old School6 min read

The four-sentence thank-you note that still does the job

My grandmother wrote three notes every Sunday after dinner, and she was never the person anyone forgot. The method takes about four minutes.

Poll

What was your first ever job?

GuideMoneyRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20265 min

Pay for the wedding in cash or move the date

The guest list is the budget. Everything else is decoration, and most of it's negotiable if you run the numbers first.

GuideSkillsCal BrennanSep 23, 20265 min

Choking rescue for an adult, a child and a baby

The hands go in three different places depending on who's choking, and the one that works on a grown man will hurt an infant.

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GuideStartupsRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20265 min

The food truck costs that aren't on anybody's spreadsheet

The truck is the cheap part. It's the commissary, the generator hours and the days you don't sell that decide whether you're still open in year two.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideMoneyRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

Read your home insurance policy on a Tuesday, not after a fire

Six numbers in your policy decide what you actually get paid. Most people meet them for the first time standing in a wet hallway.

GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Replace a broken window pane without butchering the sash

The glass is the easy part. Skip one step and your fresh putty cracks out by next winter.

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideOld SchoolDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Grandpa Kept Ten Tools in That Box and Never Needed More

A gray metal box, ten tools, fifty years of fixing things. What was in it, why, and how to actually use each one this weekend.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideMoneyRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20265 min

What actually moves your credit score and what doesn't

Two things do most of the work, a dozen things do almost nothing, and one common piece of advice costs people money every month.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Hang a ceiling fan that doesn't wobble, hum or fall

The whole job hangs on a part you can't see from the floor, and most failed fan installs fail right there.

GuideOld SchoolDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

The first truck in the lot got the good jobs

What men who framed houses and poured concrete knew about showing up, staying late, and the twelve minutes that decide your whole day.

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GuideMoneyRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20265 min

The second income is smaller than the paycheck says

Before one parent comes home, do the subtraction that tells you what that job is actually adding to your family.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

Skills6 min

How to get a fire going when every stick is soaked

Startups5 min

The family cleaning business runs on roles, not goodwill

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideMoneyRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

The phone call that empties a family's savings

It starts polite, it starts urgent, and it ends with somebody at a Walgreens buying $500 gift cards. The defense takes four minutes.

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Skills6 min read

Finding north with a stick, a watch and the Big Dipper

The sun gives you west in twenty minutes, Polaris gives you north in ten seconds, and neither one needs a battery or a signal.

Poll

Where does your best time with your kids happen?

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