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While almost everyone works daily to make more money, almost everyone also has a hatred towards money because such people do not have a lot of money. The entire idea of money being able to buy you happiness is mixed up with the idea that focusing solely on money is the only purpose in life. People who hate the idea of a life revolving solely around money end up confusing the two so much that they develop a feeling that makes them hate associating money with the idea of happiness, which is what many people aim to seek as an end result.

A lot of people mistakenly associate the saying “Money buys you happiness!” with a picture of you being completely unhappy in life and using cash in your hand to buy happiness at a store, ending up being very happy. Many people cite the concepts of health and family when trying to avoid believing that money can bring them happiness. Once you realize that buying something results in happiness coming to you through related channels, you can appreciate the concept of money more.

Some Happy Things That Exist Solely Because of Money

1. The happiness your children bring to you exists also because money could afford health, food, shelter and even birth for your children.
2. The happiness food brings you exists also because you bought the food with money.
3. The happiness any hobby brings you exists also because money allowed you to either buy the tools for that hobby or enough resources elsewhere to be able to afford a hobby in life.
4. The happiness your spouse can bring you exists also because money enabled the two of you to be able to afford doing things together.
5. The happiness your health brings you exists also because you are able to monetarily afford health care, cleaner living environment, good food and shelter.
6. The happiness your friends bring you exists also because money enables you to afford calling them, txting them, msging them, e-mailing them and to visit them in person on foot with your shoes and clothes, on the car, on a donkey, on a ship, on a train and on a plane.
7. The happiness nature brings your exists also because you are able to afford traveling to or living in an area where you can observe such nature.
8. The happiness things like painting, music, movies, art and other things bring you exists also because money allows you to buy tools, equipment and tickets for those things.
9. The happiness being alone brings you exists also because you are monetarily able to afford the necessary resources on your own.
10. The happiness that money brings you exists also because you are able to afford things like clothes and shoes, education, training and transportation which you apply in some sort of a task, like work, to make you money.

Can Money Bring You Happiness?

Do you think money can buy you happiness? Do you think money helps in bringing you closer to happiness? How many happy things in your life exist or are influenced by money? How many happy things in your life have nothing to do, directly or indirectly, with happiness? What do you think of the above points?

Please share your thoughts or any questions through your comment below. Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. :)

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1. You make sure she feels weaker to males every day.

   If you are making sure your daughter never gets interested in non-romantic movies, cars, computers or anything that brainwashed guys are, you are doing your great and amazing part to brainwash your daughter to be the way you probably were raised. Anything you do not want your daughter to do or like, just because you think guys do or like it, makes your daughter be one step behind guys when she grows up. That is why when she wants cars or jeans, you buy her dolls and skirts instead.

2. You revolve her life around any specific religion.

   None of the big religions on the planet promote the idea of your daughter, and any female, growing up to be the head of the house or to be better or equal to her husband or the man of the house. Thus, infusing any specific religion into her head since her childhood will easily brainwash her to grow up and be the obedient, submissive and sissy girl that dominant and controlling guys love marrying and owning. Good job!

3. You raise her so that you can wed her off in the end.

   This is like owning a horse so that you can raise it to show off at exhibitions. If you are raising your daughter so that your daughter can one day be a wife, you are brainwashing your daughter into thinking that the entire purpose of her life is to be the caretaker, cook, sexual bag, and the bearer of children for an amazing guy in the end. Hopefully you will not wonder why she grew up to be a sissy 10 years from now.

4. Your own life shows your daughter what she will become.

   This may be one of the strongest ways to make sure your daughter knows her place in a society. If you are a father, you controlling and acting like the unquestionable head of the house shows your daughter that when she is married, she has to obey her husband too. If you are a wife, you always putting your husband above you in terms of control and the head of life itself shows your daughter that she has to try and be as good as you.

5. You revolve your daughter’s life around interests that society dictates you to.

   This is the typical trend and path that parents take when allowing their daughters to have interests since childhood: have barbies, have tea parties, have interest in drawing and painting, take some sort of dancing or singing courses, horse riding or be an amazing animal lover, play some sport like soccer or tennis for 2 to 3 years, get better at cooking, and then simply flake around the school system waiting to be picked off by a husband owner. None of these things except the last one are bad on their own; they are just what majority of the parents enforce in their daughters, resulting in majority of the daughters growing up to have the same “My life exists to be a good wife in the end! Till then I pass time doing girly things that my parents told me to!” mentality. The last thing, of some man marrying your daughter, is typically what every parent wants, resulting in more feelings of inferiority in their daughters.

What does your daughter’s future hold?

What do you think of the above points? Are you raising any daughters at this moment who may be exposed to any of the above? Do you think girls can benefit from any of the above trends?

Please share your thoughts, stories or any questions in your comment below.

Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. :) I now have to start planning an article to show you the 5, or maybe 10, ways you raise your son to be a macho-wannabe asshole.

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Very few American presidents in history have gained more fame and infamy than George W. Bush. George W. Bush was elected into presidency not through actual democracy but through the legal system. Bush Junior also started the war against Afghanistan and Iran, resulting in more than a billion people across America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa to protest against Bush for war crimes and other related things. Bush has also been known to give speeches that appear dumb or literally stupid. To this day and maybe throughout history, Bush may be more known for his “stupid” remarks and mentality than his actual presidency.

Sure, you may think Bush is stupid, but think about this: Bush became the president. You didn’t. Bush has his whole life worked out in terms of getting everything paid for him for free. You haven’t. Bush got into the White House through actual legal process and not through the votes of the majority of the people. You didn’t. Bush lead the entire country. You didn’t. Bush, through stupidity or actual plan, started the most controversial wars against two of the most extremist nations on the planet. You didn’t. Bush worked his way into the legal system and will now always be protected by the Secret Service. You won’t be. If Bush had to look at this entire situation, he would say that you are the stupid one, and not him. And many would agree.

Is stupidity absolute or relative?

Do you think everything you consider stupid in life is actually stupid in every aspect, or is it stupid just for you? Are there things out there that the society or other people consider stupid, but that you consider to be normal or not stupid?

Please share your thoughts, stories or any questions in your comment below. Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. :)

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1. You stand and take pictures in the middle of busy roads.

   If you are a stupid tourist, you probably do something that majority of owners of Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras do in the middle of the roads during heavy traffic: take pictures. These stupid tourists, or you, forget the fact that standing in the middle of the road can cause inconvenience to drivers and other pedestrians alike. However, just because you are a tourist in another land, the excitement of showing off your camera and taking pictures of some amazing new place to cherish in your own boring home overtakes your common sense of realizing whether or not standing in the middle of the road can be dangerous.

2. You stop in the middle of busy walk lanes to roll out your maps and other things.

   This may be one of the biggest observable trends you can notice almost every hour in cities like San Francisco or Paris. Tourists will stop in the middle of walk lanes and walkways, regardless of where they may be, and pull out maps and tour guide books to figure out where they are. This affects everyone else walking around them who realizes what standing on the side means. While stupid tourists think that stopping in the middle of anywhere can help them figure out where they were, what they are actually doing is making other people around them forget where they were.

3. You think what you see in tourist spots represents the country.

   Millions of tourists coming to America actually go to the tourist spots in international cities like San Francisco, Berkeley and New York to try and see what America is all about. What they are forgetting is that the tourist spots are all basically fake versions of high priced and low quality item businesses created solely to attracts stupid tourist suckers with 10 special traits in order to get their money. The real America, that feeds on money through other channels, lives and thrives elsewhere, by the way, within those same cities. It is actually very funny for me to see how tourists can think they know what America feels like by visiting around 5 or 6 tourist spots in San Francisco for about an hour each.

4. You take pictures of people with the flash on.

   If you are enlisting in the Army or the Marines, be sure to spend at least a week walking around daily in a major tourist city to have tourists flash their flashes into your eyes. That will train you to hold out longer in interrogations in case you get captured behind enemy lines once you get deployed into any war or conflict.

5. You wear a big backpack that knocks everyone in the face around you.

   This is the most typical trend among European tourists in America, and I am not sure why. No other region in the world does this as much. In fact, even saying Europeans would be generalizing it a lot, since I have never seen any Italian, British or Turkish people do this, though other people from other European countries do this a lot. Carrying a heavy duty and fully loaded backpack in San Francisco means you are either a homeless person or a stupid tourist who thinks that the trip back to your hotel room may be full of obstacles and hurdles that the objects in your backpack can help you with. And the most interesting thing is that you can easily figure out that such tourists only bought the backpack for the tourism trip: they do not know how to manage the backpack, resulting in knocking off or about everyone around them while they walk.

6. You visit another country only to hang out and dine with people from your own background country and culture.

   Why leave a country and go elsewhere when you have no interest in mingling with newer or different ideas and people? It is like someone from Missouri going to another state and hanging out only at Southern-oriented restaurants and people there, and someone from France hanging around French restaurants only. Almost every time I leave the San Francisco airport on the train without luggage, someone with luggage and their recently used boarding pass asks me which station to get off at for China Town or Japantown.

7. You forget common sense back in your home.

   So many tourists act so stupid, they may be one of the big reasons why so many cultures and people are stereotyped with stupid trends. When in doubt, simply ask. It is better to ask someone if you can sit next to someone in a small open space on the tram instead of butting your way in and then saying “sorry.” It is better to ask why people stand on the right side of escalators instead of stopping on the left hand side to have your picture taken and in the process block the path for anyone who wishes to pass by quickly from that left side that is usually kept empty for people who want to quickly pass by. Remember: when in doubt, ask. A person getting mad or laughing at you for asking a sincere, honest and innocent question that you do not know the answer to is a fool, idiot or stupid person him/herself.

8. Learn some local language if possible.

   The biggest problem people face when trying to understand and answer tourists in America stems from the fact that many people simply do not know anything other than English. While many can call that a stupid thing for several good reasons, it is the tourist that is the stupid person who focuses only on learning the names of tourist spots and not any useful words in the language of the place they are visiting. The biggest problem in such situations is the incapacity for the tourist to explain themselves and the incapacity of the listener to understand what is being asked or told. Try to learn a language or two before coming, or even some sentences. When in doubt, ask someone around what the local language term for something is. Remember one thing if you must from this entire article: when in doubt or if you do not know anything, ask.

9. You think everyone is willing to stop and take your pictures with your camera for you.

   It’s funny how many tourists will usually carry a serious face as if they are suffering from constipation, yet they throw a big smile on their face when they tag me down to take their picture. This goes for every tourist from any country in the world visiting any country in the world. Oh, and the time when you actually tell a tourist you have no time or interest in taking their picture? The stupid tourist throws on their grouchy attitude again, as if you were born and raised to take their picture with their camera. I have never seen an Asian tourist ask me to take their picture, but every month at least 2 or more European or Indian tourists ask me or someone around me to take their individual or family picture and get upset if sometimes I am too busy or occupied with other things to do so.

10. Wear proper clothing and have proper apparel to ensure others are not bothered because of you.

    The same way American tourists act stupid by going into Italian churches, Thai temples and Spanish mosques in other countries wearing shorts that actually offends the people in such places, millions of tourists coming to America actually wear clothing that ends up bothering others not because such clothing is different, but because it is very disgusting by being physically bothersome. In a city like San Francisco where you usually have to cram up with hundreds of other people inside buses, trains and trams to get to another part of the city, wearing shorts or scarfs that result in your bare shaved or unshaved legs rubbing against people’s bodies and clothes or your scarfs getting into someone’s mouth or eyes means you are a person who has no sense of control over your fashion and no sense of keeping your things to yourself.

11. BONUS STUPIDITY: Assume that the “locals” know of all the touristy spots.

    This may be the funniest sign of stupid tourists. Many tourists assume that everyone living in a city knows everything about that city. No, stupid tourist, I do not know where that spot listed on your tour guide book is. I try not to act like a tourist even when I go to other new places, which is why I only know the real good spots where regular humans go to enjoy and live around. Your stupid tourist guidebook is what many people, including myself in the Bay Area, look at before deciding which place to possible avoid renting or buying a home at.

Do you act like a stupid tourist?

Based on the above great stupid signs of tourist people, do you think you have ever acted like such a tourist? Have you encountered or heard about such tourists? Do you think any of the above points does not imply that a tourist is stupid?

Please share your thoughts, stories or any questions in your comment below. Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. :)

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Your reason for blogging can be one of the thousands of reasons out there that makes people blog or want to blog. Here are 10 very popular reasons why people blog, listed in random order.

1. You want to share your personal life.
2. You want to chronicle your personal life.
3. You want to make money.
4. You want to be part of the trend.
5. You want something to fill your time.
6. You want recognition.
7. You want to create new friendships.
8. You want to try out a new hobby.
9. You like the topic you blog about.
10. You like to write.

Why do you blog?

Based on the above information and sample reasons, why do you blog? Is there a different reason why your blog exists? If you want to blog in the future, what reason motivates you?

Please share your thoughts, stories, or any questions through your comment below. Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. :)

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1. Without a GPS or Google Maps, you do not know how to get to your work, school or the grocery store down the road.
2. If your phone dies, you have no way of contacting any friend nor do you have any way of telling who still keeps in touch with you.
3. If your internet connection dies, you do not know what to do for at least 10 hours that day.
4. If your TV dies, you have no idea how to be happy or if the world still has living people.
5. If your car dies, you realize you will die from starvation or boredom unless you call a mechanic.
6. If your laptop dies, your entire life stops and gets a new purpose to fix your laptop or get a new one.
7. Without an internet connection, you have no source of income.
8. Without a vacuum cleaner, there is no way to clean anything for you.
9. Without a washer and dryer around regularly, you either buy more new clothes or you wear dirty clothes more.
10. Without a watch, you do not know what to do in your daily life at what times or when to go to a bathroom.

Are You Relying Too Much on Technology?

Do you think you are relying too much on technology?

Please share your answers, thoughts, stories or any questions through your comment below. Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. :)

By the way, you can rely on your keyboard to comment below on this article. That is one good reason to rely on technology, of course!

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1. Touching restroom doors after washing hands.

   What is the point of washing hands when you end up touching the very doors all unwashed and the filthiest hands touch to open and close doors? And the door knob on the inside of any restroom is always in an atmosphere full of germs and air full of smells. Even though both sides are dirty, the door knob or handle used to come into a restroom or bathroom is cleaner than the one used to come out.

2. Touching restaurant menus before eating food.

   The biggest and probably the most amazing trend. People will wash hands in restrooms and then come to their tables to touch menus that have been touched by a thousand other customers and the waiter, who does not wash hands after handling any food.

3. Touching and eating from plates touched by many people including the waiter.

   Even if you avoid touching any menu after washing hands and sit down at a clean table, the plates that your food comes in will be dirty because of being handled by several people, including the waiter. When was the last time you saw a waiter take a break to clean hands? That’s right: the waiter may have the unhealthiest hands in any restaurant.

4. Trying on clothes at clothing stores.

   You will throw up at the idea of wearing someone else’s underwear, but at clothing stores you try on shirts, t-shirts, jackets, skirts, dresses and many other things that dozens of other customers have tried on during the past month.

5. Trying on shoes at shoe stores.

   You don’t wear dirty socks or even newly washed socks that fall onto the bathroom floor, but you will gladly try on shoes that people have tried with and without socks.

6. Eating anything that is open and on display at any restaurant, convenient store or gas station.

   I have seen so many people wash hands at restrooms at gas stations, only to then seeing them buy beef jerky that is sitting in the open, touched and sorted out by hundreds of customers every week. Eating anything that is open, accessible and on display at any place shows you can eat dirty things when convenient for you and when the surrounding environment promotes it.

7. Touching or kissing any animal anywhere on their body.

   Yes, the dog you think is cute that everyone else throws up when looking at or the cat that you think is awesome that everyone else tells you is the devil, brings great germs and filthy things to you. Both animals lick their genital areas daily to clean them, yet you love washing hands, brushing your teeth and then kissing your dog or cat all over, even on their mouth.

8. Touching anything in the kitchen before, during or after eating in the kitchen.

   The hope that a kitchen should be the cleanest place in the house, because of food, makes people assume that it is clean. People end up touching dirty knives, filthy hand towels, fridge handles that they and everyone else touches all the time, and many other things while eating food.

9. Taking baths.

   Sitting in a big puddle of water that touches all the sides of the bathtub, while soaking yourself with all your dirt and filth particles floating around and touching you, and in the end simply getting up and wiping yourself clean with the towel may be the filthiest thing you do with the brainwashed idea that you are doing something that is the same or better than taking a shower.

10. Using a towel more than once for anything. Even to wipe a finger dry.

    Yes, using a towel more than once, even if it is to wipe your hands dry, means your towel is the dirtiest thing in the house that you like touching regularly with the confused assumption that it marks the end of a cleaning cycle. It is the clothing equivalent of a bath, and even worse because you use a towel after showers and baths too.

11. Bonus Trend Just For You: Drinking Any Pepsi or Coca Cola Can.

    We do it everyday. I do it regularly too. Each and every Coca Cola, Pepsi, Sprite, Fanta or any soda can or bottle that you pop open and drink from contains the awesomest and most foreign germs you can think of, because of the amount of distance such bottles and cans travel in the open on trucks, airplanes and trains. Yet you conveniently touch your lips and tongue against such bottles and cans, because when it is time to enjoy carbonated drinks, hygiene and cleanliness can go &%$# itself.

How Unhygienic Are You Daily?

Based on the above information, how clean or dirty do you end up being daily? What do you think of the above points?

Please share your thoughts, stories or any questions through your comment below. Thanks for reading. I really appreciate it. Remember: your comment below will not show whether or not you washed your hands before touching that dirty keyboard to type out your comment.

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Sure, you may love the idea of saying those words because of Madonna’s song “Sorry”, with my favorite Pet Shop Boys Remix of the song below. The song video below will help you realize two reasons why people say sorry. One awesome reason is to make money through such a song, and the other one is mentioned in the song.

And now we go through the direct reasons why you may be saying “I’m Sorry” on an almost daily basis and lying by do so.

1. You say it to avoid feeling uncomfortable.
2. You say it to avoid a confrontation.
3. You say it because society tells us to say it at certain times.
4. You say it because you may appear cruel otherwise.
5. You say it because you got caught or pointed out doing something wrong.

When was the last time you said “I’m Sorry!”?

Based on the above points, can you remember the last time you said “I’m Sorry” and the last time you actually meant it? Do you hear such an apology from others regularly and realize that they are simply saying it out of obligation, politeness or a robotic reaction?

Please share your thoughts, stories or any questions in your comment below. Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. :) By the way, you do not need to say “I’m Sorry!” in your comments below if you’ve said it before in your life without actually meaning it.

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1. Society forbids suicide.
2. People may avoid talking to you.
3. People may think you want to commit suicide.
4. You may attract suicidal people.
5. People may recommend you to seek medical help, because they think you may be suicidal.
6. You may lose friends who do not like the idea of suicide and think suicidal people suck.
7. You may cease being cool among friends online and offline.
8. Your religion and “God” tells you that you will go to hell if you talk about suicide in any form other than to condemn it and make other people talk less about it.
9. You think talking about suicide will make you suicidal.
10. Your work may get affected because your present or future co-workers and boss may think you are not mentally fit for a job.

Can you talk about suicide comfortably?

I personally am interested in the idea and concept of suicide so much that it is something that is more natural of a topic for me than the topic of Facebook or not eating meat. Sure, suicide can be a physically painful experience, and emotionally disturbing on many levels. Suicide may also be something that people consider an easy way out of problems. But in a world where we support people in killing others in the name of a country or religion, suicide may be the the most logically pure and actually reasonable form of taking a life, your own, in order to achieve some idea or reasoning you may have, or even solve some confusion or create one. You should realize that suicide is definitely not always the easy way out of problems.

And you should realize that you do not have to be wanting to commit suicide soon or at all in order to be able to discuss or talk about the idea of suicide.

What do you think about the idea of talking about suicide? Would you be comfortable discussing the concepts or reasoning behind suicide?

Please share your thoughts, stories or questions through your comment below. Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. :)

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1. Application Fee.

   The application fee is surely one of the biggest scams landlords run. Not only do landlords keep taking in applications even when they have met their quota, they keep all application fees even if they do not run any criminal or credit check on you. And on top of that, many landlords ask for both a credit report, discussed below, and an application fee. What good is the application fee when you are already giving everything the landlord needs in the form of documentation papers? So not only does the landlord charge you for renting a place, the landlord basically charges you for inquiring about it too? You would stop buying many things in life if they had a “buying fee“, but landlords make you do it regularly anytime you get interested in a place.

2. Pet Background Info.

   Last week, a potential landlord asked me the background info for my friend cat Whisper. What does his background have to do with my rental history? Yes, my cat used to be a drug addict, killed a few homeless cats on the street and sometimes sells cat treats to underage kittens. Would I still get a place if my pet has such a colorful background?

3. Personal Background.

   What does your personal life and background have to do with the place you would be living in? Landlords requiring such info are simply finding ammunition for being prejudice toward you in case they find out something about you they do not support, like your religious views, personal lifestyle, sexual orientation, political views, ethnic background and more. In the end, a landlord can use such information to simply decline your application and tell you that they found some other better candidate.

4. Bank & Credit Card company addresses and contact information.

   Another useless info that simply makes you fill out forms. Why do you have to list your bank and credit card company addresses and contact information? If you are paying the application fee, should not the landlord do some research and figure out such info themselves? How many landlords actually call, send letters or visit banks in person in order to ask questions about you? Even if they do that, which they do not, they would run into the problem of account verification, discussed in the next point.

5. Bank & Credit Card account numbers.

   This is by far one of the most pathetically useless pieces of information landlords ask you in order to simply pry into your personal life and to know more about you in terms of simply knowing your bank account number. Why is such a thing pathetic and useless? Because no bank in America will ever tell any landlord or anyone else the exact nature of or amount of money in your bank account just because that landlord or someone else has your bank account number. Why do landlords ask for such info? To either sue you in the end in case of any issues or to make you do more paperwork and make you feel very vulnerable.

6. References in addition to previous rental history.

   This is a new trend I have noticed getting an increased attention in the last few years. Landlords ask you for references in the form of your relatives, friends, co-workers and others. This is a form of being too nosy, by asking others what they think of you. What does finding out from other people about the type of character you have relate in any form to you renting a place? This is a great way to be prejudice against someone by finding out personal non-rental related things about them.

7. Credit Report.

   In America, the credit report is basically one of the most important documents of your life. It lists your social security numbers, every credit card you have ever owned, all your bank accounts, everything you have ever paid or not paid for to a lender, every place you have lived at, and much, much more. Thus, landlords asking for such information seems a great invasion of privacy and security. Why would a landlord need to know anything about those things when all they need to know is if you are not a killer who will kill other neighbors, will not damage the place you are living in, and will pay on time?

8. Your Work Details.

   This is one of the puzzling stupid things landlords ask you that is simply a characteristic of being nosy. A landlord should not care whether your work at a company involves being a hooker or the accountant. As long as you have income and work for yourself or a company, sharing specific details of what you do at work seems unnecessary.

9. Pet Deposit.

   The pet deposit is simply another way to get more money from you, by considering the pet to be an extra liability. A security deposit already exists for that, and pets are usually known to destroy furniture, and not walls. Thus, a pet deposit is simply another way for a landlord to keep more of your money in their savings account or in some investment.

10. Any deposit higher than the monthly rent amount.

    Landlords only need a deposit to either cover damages to a place or to cover a month’s rent in case a tenant simply leaves a place without giving any notice. The deposit is there to actually cover the amount of time it takes the landlord to find a replacement in such cases. Any deposit amount higher than a month’s rent is simply an abuse by the landlord to keep more money in the long run. More deposit, even if it is returned at the end of your agreement with the landlord, means less money in your overall balance and more money for investments and in the bank balance for the landlord.

Would You Ask Such Things as a Landlord?

What do you think of the above points? Would you as a tenant accept any or all of the above points when applying to rent a place? Would you as a landlord ask or not ask any of the above info from tenants?

Please share your thoughts, stories or any questions through your comment below. Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it.

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Society would change greatly if more people knew other people’s names. Here are 15 random ways society and people may change if everyone wore a name tag.

1. Everyone would know your name.
2. There would be fewer crimes of certain types.
3. There may be a decrease in the number of promises people forget that involve others.
4. There may be an increase in the number of promises people forget, because of being overwhelmed by names present on every moving human body.
5. People with stupid names may get laughed at.
6. Society may not give name tags to homeless people.
7. There would be more grudges and anger related crimes because of people remembering your name after some incident that upset them.
8. You would remember which people to avoid and which people to interact with, based on what you remember from both their face and their name.
9. Almost a complete elimination of the idea of remembering people’s names or asking people who they are.
10. People with names similar to those of celebrities may either get into trouble or may assume the psychotic identity of the celebrity to get a few photographs taken.
11. A change in legal laws to make people’s identities more secure and less exploitable because of people’s names being available openly and everywhere.
12. Racism may increase as people may start coloring their name tags with the color white, black, green, blue, yellow, brown or orange in order to show off their racial background.
13. An increase in identity thefts because of it becoming easy to find out what name lives at what address.
14. A lot of time saved weekly that gets spent or wasted by asking people who they are.
15. A big decrease in the importance of names because of people being drowned in names everywhere.

Would you wear a name tag?

Based on the above information, would you wear a name tag? What would you like to see in the concept of wearing a name tag daily so that you would have no opposition to such an idea?

Please share your thoughts, stories, questions or what you would write on your name tag by commenting below.

Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. :) My online name tag is included in the above picture, by the way. And in the offline life, I think I prefer being in the shadows with the name tag that says “Name goes here.”

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Planning the Trip: Planning a trip is actually harder than it looks, because of the dozens of different options we have available. Which online site offers the best deal for a trip? Which place should you go to to get what you want? Going shopping makes you wonder if you should go during the morning to get easier parking or at night to get more things done. And to go to another city? Should you take the car or the train? Should you go on a Monday or a Saturday when there will be more activities in another city, or should you go on a Tuesday or a Thursday when there will be less tourists bumping into you?

The amount of choices you can make on both short and long trips are endless, which is why you plan your trip in order to rule out the less attractive choices. In the end, if your trip sucks, what is the point of it all, right? You may actually already have kind of a draft plan for trips in your mind already. You probably already have a good idea of what to do or avoid when planning your next trip, both long and short. If you think about the number of options you have and the number of choices you actually make, you may be surprised at how even going outside to get the mail from the mailbox in your pajamas requires you to plan a few things like whether or not to wear slippers, to change into different clothes first, to lock your door behind you, or whether or not you should check first if the holiday everyone else is observing means you will not get any mail today.

Do you focus on what you carry on trips?

Do you usually plan packing or traveling?

Based on the above, do you usually plan on packing stuff for a trip or planning what to do on the trip? Can you remember a trip on which you took almost no luggage? How about a trip where you took the most amount of luggage ever in your life?

Please share your thoughts, questions or stories by commenting below. Thanks for reading!

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I have used the Chegg book rental service several times before, so I will let you know how ordering from them works so that you can get a good idea of what book renting is all about. Chegg uses UPS for all their shipping as far as I have seen. The orders come in free when you choose the standard shipping option of 5 to 7 business days. Of course, you can order upgraded shipping, including the much coveted and also feared Next Day Shipping option.

To rent a book, you simply take the following 4 steps:

1. Go to the main Chegg website and find out the book you’re looking for.
2. Choose the number of days you want to rent the book for. The price for the longest amount you want to keep the book, which is usually 3 to 4 months, may still be cheaper than the full price of that book.
3. Add the book to your shopping cart and check out.
4. Your book or books will arrive in a Chegg box like any book order.

To return any of those yucky, unwanted books that you rented, by the return due date or to get a full refund in case you do not like them, you simply take these 4 steps:

1. Log into your Chegg account to print your free UPS return label. It is always automatically generated for you and always instantly available.
2. Tape that label onto any empty box you have, or the Chegg box that your rental book originally came in.
3. Put your books in the box and tape the box. You can mail back one book or 10 books in one box – Chegg does not care as long as they get the books back safely.
4. Drop that box at any UPS store at any time for free and you will get a free tracking number to track the status of your return or refund. Returns and refunds are applied automatically, within 2 days of Chegg getting your box.

As you can see, renting books is very easy, and returning books for a full refund or by their due date is even easier.

Let us now take a look at some of the good and not so good points about book renting in general. Since I have tested and used Chegg extensively, I will use them again for this comparison for good and bad things about book renting.

Good Things About Renting Books

1. You save money.
2. You save space at home.
3. You worry about less belongings in the long run.
4. You can keep books for as little or as long as you want.
5. Get full refund for your rented books if you return the books within a certain number of days.
6. As of this writing, get free shipping on all orders and free return postage too for both returns and refunds.
7. You get full tracking of your order both ways, from Chegg to you and from you to Chegg.
8. Chegg plants one tree for every book you rent.

So-So Things About Renting Books

1. You do not own the book.
2. You cannot have normal wear and tear on the book.
3. Owning the book later on in the rental period costs more than buying the book outright in the beginning.
4. If you lose the book, you pay full replacement price.
5. If you ship the book back later than the due date for a refund or to return, you may not get a full refund or may be charged more.

Should You Rent Books? Yes!

In the end, renting books does help save money. It also helps you unclutter you home, like it helped me. Over the last 10 years, I ended up with over 500 or so books, with over 400 of such books being completely unwanted. Chegg helps solve that issue for you. If you need a book forever, you may try to either read the book in person at a store like Barnes & Noble before buying it, or you can rent your book from a place like Chegg and then either return it if you do not like it, or purchase it within 7 to 10 business days for full price.

Based on the above information, would you prefer buying books or renting books from Chegg? Do you buy books on a regular or a random basis? What are your views about renting books in general?

And as mentioned before, here is your coupon for 5% OFF your entire Chegg order – CC106301 – unlimited uses! Enjoy.

Please share your thoughts, stories, questions or favorite and least favorite books you would buy or rent by commenting below. Thank you for reading! :) Remember: renting books may not save Planet Earth, but it surely will save you a lot of money!

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