Did you know you’ve been pooping all wrong
? It’s true! Luckily, the obscenely popular Squatty Potty is designed to lift your legs into an ideal bowel movement position, and you can get a 7" or 9" model for just $19 on Amazon today. These things never go on sale, so if you’ve had your eye on one, it’s officially time to poop or get off the pot.
One of the quintessentially American parts of childhood is the good old-fashioned road trip. The whole family packs into the car and heads to their vacation destination, perhaps to a national park for a camping trip or something a little more fun like Walley World. But traveling with the whole family isn’t always a simple task!
One of the quintessentially American parts of childhood is the good old-fashioned road trip. The whole family packs into the car and heads to their vacation destination, perhaps to a national park for a camping trip or something a little more fun like Walley World. But traveling with the whole family isn’t always a simple task!
The Raspberry Pi Zero, the cheap, $5 version of the popular computer, has been notoriously hard to find since its initial release. Today, they’re releasing a new model that adds in a camera connector. They’ve also acknowledged the demand, so hopefully these newer versions will be a bit easier to track down.
We’re fans of easy, “set and forget” investing. And that means investing in funds with low fees that don’t eat into your returns. And a recent study from Morningstar found that funds with low fees are generally more successful.
Get 10,000 steps, stand up every hour, climb the stairs instead of taking the elevator – there are lots of relatively easy ways to stay healthy and fit, but how do you monitor your progress? This week, we’re on the hunt for the best fitness tracker on the market.
Credit card rewards enthusiasts, take note. Carrying a large balance on your credit card will obviously affect your score, but even if you pay it off in full and on time, that balance can still impact your credit.
At a glance, system monitors might not seem as useful on your iPhone as they are on a desktop computer, but they can pack in a lot of good data. This includes detailed battery life breakdowns, storage space, data speeds, and more. For the average user, our favorite system monitor for the iPhone is Omnistat.
Your car insurance rate can change for a number of different reasons
, from your marital status to the crime rate in your neighborhood. To stay ahead of potential rate increases, ask your carrier for their surcharge schedule.
You know the saying, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone”? I’ve learned that this phrase can be quite relevant to our search for happiness. The most difficult thing about being happy is being able to identify the actions you took to get there or the things in life that brought you joy. Honestly, I often don’t recognize the things in my life that make me truly happy until I’ve been put in a place where I have to sacrifice to keep them.
Sacrifice is the surrender of something desirable for the sake of something else regarded as more important. The term brings to mind the first time I was faced with a difficult decision regarding my happiness and sacrifice, a time when I was much younger, full of teenage angst and angry at the world.
When I was fifteen years old, my parents did not live together, my father had remarried and was living in a different town than my mother and I. Like all teenage girls, I thought my mother was a cruel and unbearable woman who treated me like a child despite my obvious maturity. (Yikes!) I wanted desperately to move away from home the instant I turned sixteen because only then could I be happy.
One Saturday morning, sitting on my father’s patio, I told him about my plan. I told him that I was going to rent my own apartment when I turned sixteen. I was going to work part-time while I finished high school and then get a scholarship to go to university. I had such a good plan, don’t you think? My dad’s response was the exact same response I got from him every time I dumped a huge pile of information on him unexpectedly. All I ever got was a “huh.” It was never a question, just a sound of acknowledgment.
After he seemed to digest the news. He said, “Okay, what’s your plan?” Of course, I was thinking, how stupid, I just told you my plan. But dad was a details guy when it came to plans, so he wanted to help me create a much clearer picture of what my intentions were.
He pushed his crossword puzzle and coffee aside, got out his yellow paper pad and we started outlining everything I would need to move out on my own. He listed furniture, dishes and cooking supplies, and towels and bedding. He added things I had not considered, like paying for utilities and groceries, my own school supplies and clothing. After he tallied up my monthly expenses (whopping to me at the time!) he calculated how many hours a week I would need to work at minimum wage in order to stay afloat.
I remember being shocked at the number of hours I would have to work. I was a very active teenager. I was involved in several choirs, baseball, church groups, and other extra-curricular activities. I knew that I could not manage all of those activities, plus time with friends and keep my grades hovering around the ‘A’ mark.
My dad asked me one simple question: Are you willing to give all that up, to live on your own? He obviously knew the answer. He knew the answer before he set aside his coffee. The truth was, all my activities made me very happy, and I hated the thought of losing them. But I had to let go of the idea of moving out in order to keep those things.
Happiness isn’t about having it all. Happiness isn’t having everything be 100% all the time. It’s just not realistic to expect that the world will be sunshine and roses every second of every day.
I’ve learned to be truly happy, you need to sacrifice some things in order to keep the things that really bring you joy and enrich your life. To be happy, we have to look at the big picture of our lives instead of focusing on the little irritating things that squirm their way into our day.
To be happy, we need to be grateful for what we have, instead of looking at what we don’t have. When I was fifteen, I had a mom who put a roof over my head and paid for all of my crazy activities. I had a dad who took the time to let me make a hard decision for myself, instead of just telling me “No”. When I was fifteen, I had every reason to be happy (even if I didn’t know it then!)
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