The secret to weight loss is not more exercise. The secret to weight loss is eating less. In the process of eating less, you’ll also save more money. I wrote this post on July 25, 2009, and wanted to revisit it 11 years later. I was 165 – 167 lbs back then. Today I’m 168 […]
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Let’s talk about the biggest downside to daycare and preschool. The downside has become extremely apparent post pandemic. When it comes to analyzing the downside for daycare and preschool, most parents think about cost as the biggest downside. Then there is the societal pressures that come with sending your kids to daycare (not so much
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There are many benefits of being short I’d like to discuss in this post. I firmly believe being tall is overrated. Unless you are a basketball player, volleyball player, wide receiver, or tennis player, there’s not much benefit to being tall. I’m 5’10”, the average height in America. If I played in the NBA, I’d
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Well now, it looks like some people weren’t very happy with my defense of people who like to eat out to win business or order food delivery to save time and their marriages. I’m not sure whether the true anger lies in going against the food preparing norm or highlighting the truth about how we
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The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a way to help lower-income individuals and individuals without health care afford health care. Although health care is still extremely expensive, the Affordable Care Act provides subsidies. This article will look at the subsidy amounts by income for the the Affordable Care Act. I’m a supporter of ACA despite
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average cost of family health insurance offered by companies is now a whopping $20,576 a year, or $1,714.66 a month. Employers paid for 71% of that cost on average. Meanwhile, the average premium for single workers was $7,188 a year, or $599 a month. Employers covered 83% of
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There’s a happiness conundrum that needs solving. Despite living in a rich country with income levels that put us in the top 1% in the world, there are still many unhappy people. This post explores why we are not happier and what we can do to elevate our happiness. At the end of the day,
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Without healthcare subsidies, healthcare in America is extremely expensive. For example, my family of four is paying $2,300 a month for a Gold plan because we are receiving no healthcare subsidies. We would get a Platinum plan, but it’s simply too expensive. If we reduced our income to be no greater than 400% the Federal
What’s great about America is that we’ve got a highly productive workforce that grinds like no other. We invent some of the greatest products and consistently build some of the largest companies in the world. But we are also increasingly suffering from mental illness. As a result, more of us need to take mental sick
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Everybody wants to be happy all the time. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unhappy and lonely people all around us, especially post pandemic. This post looks at happiness by age. It’s interesting to see how much happiness changes at different points in our lives. Thankfully, we tend to get happier as we get older.
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