Hi everyone. Welcome to the second installment of me sharing stuff on the internet that I’ve either enjoyed, questioned, or am too lazy to write myself (yet).
Continue reading “Weekend Briefs, Volume 2”Weekend Briefs, Volume 2
How to Make Food at Home That Doesn’t Suck
Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat: I’m not against eating out. I’m 100% an advocate of experiences, and I find that food, when done well, is an art and sensation worth the expense.
That said, far too many folks almost exclusively eat out because either they think there’s no time, or they simply haven’t taken the initiative to learn how to cook. Over time, the resultant opportunity cost is hundreds of thousands of foregone dollars and the delayed effects of one-too-many chicken fingers. Today, let’s examine a handful of really simple tips to make food at home that doesn’t suck.
Continue reading “How to Make Food at Home That Doesn’t Suck”I Was Really Fat Until I Fixed It
There was a time when I was fat.
Not “athlete fat,” where you’d like to drop five or ten pounds — I’m talking about obese.
As I write this, I weigh 148 pounds. In Peak Blubber days, circa 2001 (age 17), I weighed approximately 240 pounds. And there was no muscle to speak of.
Over a 10-15 year period, I eradicated nearly 100 pounds of excess mass from my body — and along with it— the shame, disgust, and self-loathing from my mind.
Continue reading “I Was Really Fat Until I Fixed It”On Deprivation: Food
The first response we usually get (or sense) when explaining the concepts behind financial independence – and in particular frugality – are that we must be depriving ourselves of “the lives we deserve” by being in a higher income bracket yet choosing to spend so little money. Instead of waxing poetic about the philosophy of simple living, let’s start with some examples of what we consider low-hanging fruit in the hierarchy of unnecessary spending.
“I love eating out, so I’m happy regularly spending money in restaurants.”