Experiments
Every experiment we've run, in one place. Food, money, work, home, travel, life, local... if we tried it and lived to write about it, it's here. Filter by category if you know what you're after, or just scroll and see what trouble looks good today.
We Bought a Van and Drove Across 5 States
No build-out plan, no route, just a $6,800 van with 140,000 miles on it and a hard rule to figure it out as we went. We're still figuring some of it out.
We Let AI Run My Day for a Week
Every decision, every hour, handed off to a chatbot with a calendar view. Mostly.
We Renovated a Bathroom with Zero Experience
No contractor, no prior tile experience, one YouTube-taught weekend that turned into three weeks. We kept every receipt and every mistake.
We Tested a Ridiculous Idea Because Nobody Could Give Us a Straight Answer
Does sleeping with wet hair actually give you worse hair the next day, or is that just something everyone's mom said with total confidence and zero evidence? We ran it fourteen nights to find out.
We Tried Running a Tiny Business Using Only Free Tools
No paid software, no paid ads, no paid anything, for two weeks straight.
We Let AI Plan a $50 Day Out and Followed Every Instruction
No vetoes, no substitutions, no checking reviews first. Whatever the chatbot said, we did, right down to the parking spot.
Can You Actually Make Money Flipping a $20 Facebook Marketplace Find?
We started with a $20 bill and a bad attitude about "passive income" content. Here's the actual math.
We Let Strangers Pick Our Lunch for a Day
Five strangers, five lunches, zero say in any of it.
We Gave Ourselves Four Hours to Fix the Thing We'd Ignored for Four Years
Every house has one. Ours was a side gate that hadn't closed right since we moved in. Four years of shoving it shut with a hip, one Saturday, one hard deadline.
We Bought the Cheapest Bagel and the Expensive Bagel. Here's What Actually Mattered.
One bagel cost 89 cents. The other cost 4 dollars. The gap wasn't where we expected it.
We Tried the Internet's Most Repeated Productivity Advice for One Week
Cold showers, 5am wake-ups, time blocking, no phone for an hour. We did all of it, on schedule, and wrote down exactly what broke.
We Tried Eating Vegan for a Day Without Going to a Vegan Restaurant
No specialty grocery run, no vegan cheat codes. Just a regular fridge and a regular Tuesday.