Or vice versa: if you’re interested in muscular endurance and stamina, you could slightly decrease the weight and then increase reps per set (but still not to failure).

People who don’t quite get that “lifting to failure” is supposed to mean lifting until you can’t maintain form, not til you can’t manage to move the weight at all!

As always, form, form, form. I see lots of people “lifting to failure” by contorting their entire bodies in the oddest ways...ouch!

and this is the part where i luuuuuuuuv being in a furniture manufacturing area. i can actually go to multiple local places to buy surplus odd pieces of upholstery fabric and foam for cheap. of course it doesn’t need to be as pretty/perfect when it’s cat trees and pet bedding. but i redid the cushions on a thrift…

The person I’m seeing right now has shown some signs of being much, MUCH looser with money than I am. (The fact that he laughingly called me a cheapskate may have been a hint. The fact that I didn’t mind the label was a hint at how problematic this could become.) Our relationship isn’t serious enough for this kind of…

I wondered about that myself, at the time. Like I mentioned, it’s not lack of ability because everyone knows - and will willingly and happily tell me — that she’s smarter than I am. She was just very career-focused and pushed other things off to the side. It’s the same reason I do all the cooking — she was happy…

Haha, yeah, we’ve been there, too. We figured it out with budgeting. We based our savings on a percentage of our paychecks. So I was still contributing more by the dollar, but percentage-wise, we were contributing the same. He still had spending money, and he was still throwing money at our goals, so that seemed fair.…

100% agreed. Being aware of the differences was a big part of it. It just helped to understand how each other functions with money. I like what you wrote: “it also changes our outlooks on how to handle matters short and long.” Definitely! Knowing the other’s perspectives and goals helps you coexist better, share a…

Frankly, that’s an entirely different problem to solve. It doesn’t look like we’ve written a guide (I’ll make a not to pitch it some time!) but off the top of my head, here are a few suggestions:

I’d also like to add, careful with dried fruit - don’t eat too much. Once back in college I downed like half a giant Costco bag of dried apricots. I.... the bathroom... just... trust me on this, watch how much dried fruit you eat in one sitting.

Great way to make popcorn in the microwave that’s better for you than the crap like Pop Secret, and Orville Redenbacher or however you spell it, go to the store, buy some small brown paper bags and popcorn kernels. take a measuring cup that’s 1/4 Cup, fill it with the popcorn kernels and put it in the brown paper bag…

Agreed. Dried fruit is high sugar (fructose) even without added sugar, and good luck finding dried fruit with no added sugar. People can easily eat half a bag of dried apricots, but would they eat 15 whole fresh apricots? No. Fresh fruit is best, and not in large amounts if you are sedentary.

Try putting the stems in a piece of foil under the grate.

Especially air-popped popcorn. I use a little butter-flavored spray and then some salt and other seasoning. Pity my table-top group doesn’t like popcorn.

Veggie tray and some hummus, use pita chips as well and I am set.

I agree with that last part :) For the first part, I’d argue you should buy what you can afford now, not later.