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Cheap Meal Ideas for Single Graduate Students

January 19, 2010 · 7 comments

in financial fitness, food, grad school, health, lifehack, low-income, nutrition, students

This post is really directed to anyone studying full-time or living on their own and working so much that the mere thought of making healthy meals tires you out.  Grad students’ situations just exemplify the worst of it.
The great thing about being single is being able to cook all of your own food (to put [...]

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Have a Clutter-Free Christmas With These Minimalist Gift Ideas That Don’t Take Up Space or Collect Dust Around the House

December 16, 2009 · 2 comments

in December, financial planning, happiness, health, holidays, lifestyle design, money decisions, purchases, special dates, spending

Congratulations on opting for a minimalist Christmas, or at least thinking about how to have a clutter-free Christmas.  If you’re like me and appreciate minimalism, but you also love giving gifts – you just need to find a way to buy or make gifts that don’t sit around and collect dust for the next three [...]

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How Wealthy Are You, Really? Look Past Networth and Cashflow to See The True Meaning of Wealth

October 26, 2009 · 8 comments

in achievement, happiness, health, lifestyle design, psychology, success, wealth

Someone once said that wealth is what you’ve got left even after you’ve lost all your money.
In today’s business terms, wealth is goodwill; the invaluable resource that remains on the books despite what the rest of the balance sheets say.  In social media, it is your reputation – or even the “personal brand equity” [...]

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The Closest We Can Come to Making Money Out of Thin Air: Think Your Way To Wealth by Leveraging Your Brain’s Consumption of Calories

July 3, 2009 · 0 comments

in health, humor, lifehack, nutrition, psychology, wealthbuilding, weight loss

While you’re crunching retirement or networth numbers, or doing serious soul-searching into your dream career or life purpose, your brain is hard at work turning glucose into calories for all those neurons.  You may just be sitting at your computer, but if you can feel the wheels of thought turning, chances are you’re burning calories [...]

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What I Learned About the Economy From Watching Food, Inc. (dir. Robert Kenner, 2009)

June 30, 2009 · 17 comments

in agriculture, business, capitalism, commodities, economy, films, health, infrastructure, nutrition, survival

NB: As you can imagine from watching a film like Food, Inc., it can be hard to separate the emotion and just report “calmly” on the plain facts presented by the film.  Originally I wrote this the same day I saw it, but I’ve since gone back and edited it to try to tone down [...]

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Save Tons of Money By Eating Super Foods – The Minimal Amount of Food Necessary

June 22, 2009 · 25 comments

in discipline, financial fitness, frugal tips, health, lifestyle design, nutrition, savings, survival, weight loss

This is a fun problem I’ve thought about in the past, though never specifically with regard to money.  With the recent personal finance bloggers’ weight loss challenge I’m participating in, though, I thought it made sense to try to integrate it with money management.
I once went on a very strict no-sugar diet (no sweeteners, no [...]

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More Evidence Showing That Losing Weight Is Correlated With Becoming Wealthier

May 30, 2009 · 11 comments

in discipline, health, wealthbuilding, weight loss

If you lose a lot of weight, you’re more likely to also gain in wealth.  Thus finds an Ohio State University study from a few years ago.  The basic idea, as I understand it, is probably that (1) those motivated to lose that much weight will also be motivated to improve their finances and (2) [...]

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