Monthly Archives: February 2026

The idea of combining your phone with your wallet has led to a a phone accessory category filled with different approaches. The idea began with plastic phone cases having a compartment to hold a couple of cards, and have expanded to include cases that can hold five or ten cards. The concept makes sense if […]

Over the years, my wife and I accumulated a decent wine collection—nearly filling a 300-bottle capacity wine cabinet. What started as a modest hobby evolved into something more substantial. But with growth came chaos. Our first tracking system was very low tech: wine racks with wine organized by varietal, When the collection outgrew that approach, […]

If you travel often enough, you learn to lower your expectations. Airlines shrink the seats and call it efficiency. They leave a few seats unshrunk and call it premium class. Hotels tack on resort fees for amenities that used to be included, even if they’re not used. Rental car companies charge surprise fees for cleaning […]

I moved my family plan from Verizon to T-Mobile and Verizon has made it particularly difficult, well beyond what’s needed to prevent fraud. I hesitated for years. We have seven phones and two watches spread across two cities five hundred miles apart — exactly the kind of family account carriers love. The bigger and more […]