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Anybody who tells you they have something better than this is selling you the something.

in Where are you actually putting your money this year

Light is always the cheapest renovation. Nobody believes it until they do it.

in What did you change in your own place, and did it work

Add "just circling back on this" and you have a declaration of war.

in The email that starts a war is always three lines long

What helped me was giving a number instead of a no. "I can do 20 this month" ends the conversation without ending the relationship.

in How do you say no without it becoming a family meeting

Nobody talks about the service charge that appears at the end like a surprise guest.

in The menu with no prices is always a trap

Every family has one. Mine is an uncle whose name disappeared from every conversation at once.

in The thing nobody in my family talks about

Everybody prepares you for the paperwork and the weather. Nobody sits you down and says you will not hear your own language in a shop for three months.

in Nobody warned me about the loneliness