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Outfitted & Equipped: Urban Exploration
This post is brought to you by New Balance. Make excellent happen. How does Outfitted & Equipped work? The FAQ. Editor’s note: This gallery was curated by urban explorer Pete Gyftakis. Urban exploration (also known as urbex) is the exploration of structures, usually abandoned...
The Weekly Huckberry Giveaway: July 25, 2014
Last week’s winner was…still to be determined. Check your email folks! My Picks This Week The Explorer’s Shirt (made for Huckberry by San Francisco company Taylor Stitch) is the ultimate adventurer’s wear. It’s made with 10oz canvas, features heavy-duty brass...
Best Money Tips: The Travel Edition
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some of the best articles from around the web on travel!
Top 5 Articles
Ten Money-Saving Vacation and Travel Tips — Packing smart and sleeping cheap can help you save money on your vacation. [Get Rich Slowly]
Key Considerations...
8 Little Ways to Become More Present (and Love Your Life More)
Do you ever pull into the driveway after a long day of work and wonder where the day went? Ever find yourself living for the weekend only to marvel on Sunday night how quickly it passed? Sometimes life demands not only that we multitask, but "hypertask." And in the process we're skimming...
Farewell, I’m Off for a Week.
I’m off for a week’s family vacation, in my hometown of Kansas City (Missouri, for those of you in the know). Each year we visit my parents, and do all our favorite KC things: eat at Winstead’s and The Mixx; visit the library; shop on the Plaza; go to Worlds of Fun; walk through...
If You're Eating These 6 Things, Your "Diet" Is Doing Nothing
Dieting is hard. But guess what? Bad dieting can require the same amount of stress and effort, and no positive result. (See also: 14 Dumb Things Holding You Back From Losing Weight)
If you're trying to lose weight, it's hard to know what foods to avoid. Sometimes we fall into the traps set by food...
10 Unexpected Things You Should Consider When Picking Where You Retire
Retirement often brings about relocation — possibly to a warmer area, a place with better health care, a quieter community, or just wherever Sal and Judy ended up. What a nice couple!
Retirees often focus on things like hospitals, access to national parks, closeness to family, or an...
8 Good Reasons Why You Suck At Life
Having a great life, enjoying freedom and flexibility in your days, and truly being fulfilled by what you do is something we all strive for. But the bitter reality is that very few of us actually do. Most of us will spend our time here going through the motions of a well-balanced life and die with...
10 Easy Pesto Recipes (And Only One Uses Basil!)
I love summer (and fall) for the bountiful produce we receive from our CSA share each week. Thing is, as the weeks go on, the fruits and veggies start to pile up faster than I can use them in my cooking. Thankfully, I've learned some basic preservation techniques so we can enjoy them in the...
Our Senior Editor Is Moving On: A Goodbye From Meg
Readers — after almost four years with Wise Bread, I’m moving on. My last day as senior editor of this site is this Friday, July 25. The change is bittersweet, as all good job moves should be. It’s been a delight to work with Wise Bread’s writers and staff, and to interact...
Best Money Tips: The Lifehacks Edition
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some of the best articles from around the web on lifehacks and productivity!
Top 5 Articles
25 Tiny Habits That Could Totally Change Your Life — Standing up every hour, on the hour could change your life. Sitting in silence for...
Living the Simple Life
‘A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.’ ~Henry David Thoreau By Leo Babauta For almost 9 years now, I’ve been learning to live a simple life. A life uncluttered by most of the things people fill their lives with, and left with space...
10 Dark-Side Motivations to Get You Out of Debt
We usually like to take the high ground when motivating ourselves. When it comes to getting out of debt, common reasons include "I want to put more money into a college savings fund" or "it will lower my insurance premiums." And yes, they're good reasons. (See also: 6 Harmful...
Effective note-taking
Keep note-taking simple, stick to important keywords, use a markup system that makes review helpful for you, and don’t be afraid to abandon systems that are no longer effective.
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15 Life Skills You Can Learn in 30 Minutes or Less
Have 30 minutes? Great — that's just enough time to master some savvy skills that will improve your life for the long haul. And, really, it's the little things that count the most — from starting a budding music hobby to folding that darned fitted sheet the correct way and beyond. These...
Intuit Productivity Webinar
Yesterday I participated in a webinar sponsored by Intuit called “Get More Done. Today.” with Craig Jarrow (blogs at Time Management Ninja) and Mike Williams (CEO at David Allen Company). Dan Schawbel moderated the event. I had a great time answering questions and learning some new tips...
With Habits, “It Helps to Adopt Simple Rules.”
Habits interview: Cass Sunstein. I’m hard at work on Better Than Before, my book about habits, which focuses on how to change a habit – whatever you want your particular habit to be. (To hear when the book goes on sale, sign up here.) As part of my research, I’ve read innumerable books and...
9 Ways Staying on Budget Can Be Fun (Really!)
Ok, sure, "budget" isn't always synonymous with "rollicking good time." But there are ways to make the process more fun at every stage, from assessing your finances, to setting goals, to meeting those goals, to reaping the rewards. And the more fun you can make the process, the...
5 Easy Ways to Brighten Someone Else’s Day
It is an unfortunate truth that as members of the animal kingdom, we are naturally inclined to think of ourselves before anyone else. We can’t help the fact – it’s ingrained into our brains like last week’s lottery jackpot you were one number off winning. However, being programmed with a certain...
Want to Cut Costs on Your Next Vacation? Go Green
When you purchase an airfare, do you usually choose to pay a carbon offset fee? Have you even heard of a carbon offset fee? (It's a small amount to help compensate for the emissions from the flight.)
The answer is very likely "no," and that's ok. But if paying for trip already leaves you...
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