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Some of us are overcommitted. We’re compulsive yes-sayers. Maybe you need to quit something today?
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I spent the morning at my son’s preschool spreading mulch and powerwashing playground equipment and generally cleaning with a bunch of other parents. It was hot work, but I love that we do it–it gives an opportunity to meet other parents and keeps us engaged with everything that’s going on. But I thought of something
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Did you know you can have a sentimental attachment to a couch? Of course you did. You probably have a sentimental attachment to something even more ubiquitous than an old couch. I have a pair of Nike athletic socks that fit me just right, and they should have been in the trash years ago, but I
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It may be easier to pay with card than cash, but I blow through cash in my pocket like there’s no tomorrow. The reason is simple: I track my credit and debit card transactions through a budgeting software, because, you know, awareness. But once that ATM spits out a few twenties? No way to easily track
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Studies have shown pretty conclusively that your chances of being able to tell expensive wine from Three-Buck Chuck in a blind taste are essentially 50:50. In other words, you can’t really tell the difference. I’m not a wino myself, so this is hilarious to me, but winos aren’t amused (and often just flat out deny that this could
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Boredom is complicated. On the one hand, boredom can be used to fuel creativity. On the other, it’s a black hole. But when the markets are boring for a long period of time, as they have been recently, many people who are invested in those markets don’t get bored. In fact, their emotions tend more
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“It ain’t gonna be easy and it may seem unorthodox at times but stay with me and do what I say.” If you came to me and said, “Jared, I am looking for a financial advisor, someone to manage my money and help me do the things I want to do. Can you give me
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In most middle and upper class families, the first meaningful financial decision in which a kid gets any real input is which college or university the kid wants to attend. Another way of saying this is, the first real financial decision where a kid’s opinion matters is when they are 17 years old and tens of
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That’s the interesting title here, and the article under it is basically about how brutal the sport of water polo is, and how tough it is to officiate the brutality because so much of it happens under water. The same is true in life. That sentence I just typed is really trite, but I mean how
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