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Every Tuesday and Thursday morning for the past four weeks, I’ve awakened early and driven to the gym for a one-hour workout with a personal trainer. This is awesome but it also sucks.
Why does it suck? Because:
- I am old.
- I am fat.
- I am out of shape.
Plus, who likes getting up at five o’clock? Not me! I can handle 6:30 no problem (and left to my own devices, that’s when I’ll naturally rise) but crawling out of bed ninety minutes earlier destroys me.
At the same time, this change has been awesome. Eight years ago, when I was at the heaviest weight of my life, I forced myself to get up early and go to the local Crossfit gym. After two years, I’d left peak fatness behind and achieved peak fitness. I was in the best shape of my life! Now I have a long way to before I get back to that point, but the key is that I’ve started.
The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Simple Living Is Thought to Make Us Happier
This is the third entry in an eight-part weekly series that provides a detailed look at the book The Wisdom of Frugality by Emrys Westacott. If you’re new to the series, feel free to hop back to the first entry.
For most people in the Western world today, seeking out some degree of happiness in life is a major life goal. For those seeking happiness, simple living is often promoted as a way to achieve happiness, or at least to achieve a level of contentment from which happiness and joy can bubble up.
Why is that leap made, though? Why is simple living considered to be a path to happiness? That’s what Westacott addresses in the third chapter of the book, which is broken down to nine reasons for that connection.
Seven Home Improvement Projects It Pays Not to Postpone
You may think you have all the time in the world to make repairs to your home, but your property has other ideas.
After my wife and I bought our first house five years ago, we began building a subconscious triage list of issues and potential repairs and started addressing them as best we could. We honestly thought that portions of our house and surrounding property would sit around in suspended animation as we dithered with garden beds, insulation, and myriad other projects that now seem incidental at best.
5 Smart Money Moves Your Kids Can Make Over Summer Vacation
Summer vacation when you're a kid means endless days of bike riding, swimming, playing video games, and fighting over who gets the last purple Popsicle in the freezer.
It's not nearly as idyllic for Mom and Dad.
5 Breathtaking Multiday Treks to Do in National Parks This Summer
Whether you're craving a weeklong escape into the wilderness or just a couple of days of nonstop adventure, our national parks have got you covered.
How to Protect Yourself from a Home Improvement Scam
From a small task like new sod, to a major job like a finished basement, home improvement projects can become a nightmare if you fall victim to a scam. Even the savviest consumers can get taken for a ride if they don't know how to spot the red flags.
Best Money Tips: Tax Secrets of the Rich
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The 5 Best Sous Vide Tools
A sous vide will allow you to cook a restaurant-quality meal at home, with control and precision.
These 8 Apps Will Help You Explore the Great Outdoors
The wind is whispering through the trees, the air hangs thick with pine fragrance, and you just whipped out your phone. Don't feel guilty about logging on when you're out in nature!
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This week's topic: Saving at the Grocery Store!
Best Deals for Thursday 07/05
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19 Ways to Drastically Cut Your Gas Bill
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The Value of Making Little Experiences Meaningful
There’s a little ice cream shop near where we live that serves some really delicious ice cream. I’m not sure if they make it in their shop or whether they buy it from a vendor, but whatever the case may be, it’s incredibly rich and creamy stuff.
Naturally, our kids love the place, especially on summer evenings when it’s warm out but not unpleasantly hot. Whenever we’re near the ice cream shop with our children, or one of them thinks of it after dinner, we’re usually asked whether or not we can go to the ice cream shop for a cone.
Now, if our whole family goes there, it would cost about $20 for a cone for each of us. It’s not a terrible expense, but it’s one that could add up pretty fast if we indulged regularly at the ice cream shop.
So, Sarah and I usually give our default answer of “no” to the suggestion of an ice cream shop visit. It’s not something we do very often.
28 Ways to Never Pay Full Price for Anything
So, you don't want to pay full price for anything you buy? That's smart. And why should you? These days, you have so many ways to get around that pesky price on the tag, and with the latest apps and websites on your side, you can save big with very little effort.
How Bond Prices and Yields Work
When we talk about investing, we frequently talk about stocks. Stocks are likely to make up a the bulk of your investment portfolio during the majority of your investing years.
Bonds, which tend to be less risky but also less rewarding, are more important as you get closer to retirement.
6 Breathtaking and Affordable Alaskan Destinations
Alaska is on almost everyone's bucket list.
Best Deals for Wednesday 07/04
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15 (or So) Simple and Extremely Practical Strategies for Saving Money and Improving Your Life
Over the last several years since I started The Simple Dollar, I’ve found myself trying out literally thousands of money and time and energy-saving strategies in order to seek out the best “bang for the buck” life that I can have. Some tips just didn’t work at all. Other tips were okay – saving a little bit of money or time or energy, but not resulting in a big win.
However, there have been some strategies that have just absolutely knocked things out of the park for me, becoming a strictly better way of doing things than the methods I was using before.
Recently, a reader wrote in and asked me if I had a list of the “best” strategies I’ve ever found and I realized I didn’t have a great article that covered just that. My tips tend to be spread out over lots of different articles.
What to Know When Adding a Teen Driver to Your Car Insurance Policy
Older people just love generalizing about younger generations, but there’s one stereotype that is painfully true: Young people are terrible at driving. Unfortunately for parents who add teenagers to their insurance policies, that bad driving can prove costly, even if young drivers never get into trouble.
A study commissioned by insurance pricing site insuranceQuotes looked at how much it would cost a family to add a driver between the ages of 16 and 19 to their policy. The answer, on average, was 82% more a year.
“Auto insurers are primarily interested in one thing: Are you a safe driver or a risky one?” said Nick DiUlio, insurance analyst at insuranceQuotes.
6 Ways to Stay Focused in an Open Office
Believe it or not, open office layouts were created with good intentions. The idea behind the open floor plan is to encourage collaboration and teamwork among employees, rather than having walls that literally divide people.
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