I know! I tried the other night. 5 miles on a treadmill feels like 10 miles outside.

Okay, then I'll add that audiobooks are great for long runs and you don't have to worry about the ipad falling off the treadmill or finding something decent to watch. You can find a lot of them for free on the Overdrive app linked to your library subscription.

It's all about what you watch on the treadmill! "The Walking Dead", "Peggy Carter", "Better Call Saul", or other well written shows suck me in and my 2 hour treadmill run is done before I realize it. I have a cheapy Windows 8 tablet that connects to my iPhone 6 hotspot and streams the shows via Plex direct from my…

I went from a C student to an A student in college by making these simple changes:

Dave Ramsey - The Total Money Makeover

Sometimes it's best to walk away from a fight/situation/boss you just cannot resolve (another good life skill).. I find if I walk away for even an hour that it's WAY easier to forge forward and ultimately win/find a way. I also love to practice altruism and save/help people in game- makes me feel better to be nice-…

This is a tough one to swallow, particularly because it can be draining when you realize the fight's never over. But take a break (whether it's from the game or a vacation from work or whatever) and come back to it later. Your energy can be replenished. Your time cannot.

You made the comment I was coming in here to make. I don't know why it's so hard to believe a former NFL player might know a thing or two about pacing himself and pushing through fatigue. Add to that the adrenaline of a life-or-death situation, in which even "ordinary" people can perform extraordinary feats, and it…

Agreed. I get a house in the Hamptons with a group of friends every year, which sounds hoity-toity but it's really not. It's big enough for everyone to have their own space, there's volleyball, tennis, and basketball courts, as well as a pool and hot tub. We each chip in ~ $300 but with 20 people in the house, a…

Yup. This is our annual thing. $2K for a beach house for a week (somewhere on the Gulf coast), eat out two or three times but mostly cooking for ourselves and just chillin.

Yes! Once you split the cost with just a few people, it works out less than a hotel.

We have SolarCity solar panels on our house which cost us nothing to have installed and bought our Nissan Leaf used. We are saving $300 a month in gas which makes the car payment and our electricity bill hasn't gone up at all.

Thanks for that one - that's a great idea.

Nice. I expect in the future self-driving electric cars will be an even better ROI. You'll be able to take it to work, then rent it out to other people throughout the day, then take it home. Kind of like Ubering while you work.

Fourth! I bought one 3+ years ago and it's still kicking. I not only save money and use less plastic/aluminum (I used to go through a sixer of sparkling water a day), but I'm also really, really hydrated (I just drink plain sparkly, no syrups).

I bought a SodaStream back in 2010 and it paid for itself in about 2 months. Sparkling water costs about $1.50 per liter and were heavy to lug to our apartment. Then we had 3 empty glass bottles every week to take to a recycling center.

Yes. I did this after a Lifehacker article some time ago. People tend to think that it's hard, that they will cut themselves, but it's basically the same, it feels good - maybe for the more ritualistic or traditional feel about it -, it's safe and, y'know, just the savings alone are worth it.
My experience with it is…

Are those Bugle Boy jeans you're wearing?

if you get a sodastream and the tank adapter it pays for it's self even faster. I now pay about $2.00 to refill a tank as I have an adapter to hook up a 5 pound standard CO2 tank under the sink. It costs me $15.00 to refill that 5 pound standard tank and it lasts as long as 6 sodastream tanks. Only had to drill one…