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Year in review 2018: My top 10 favorite posts

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Happy end of the year! It’s that time when I take a little bit of time off from my standard posting schedule and instead have a recap of the best posts of the year, as determined in two ways: the … Read More

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Did I ever tell you how lucky you are?

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My favorite Dr. Seuss book, from the time I was a child to today, is Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? It’s always seemed a lesser known work of his, more McElligot’s Pool than Green Eggs and … Read More … Read More

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Adventures in pointless frugality: Shopping for a gas station

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I’ve been fascinated in one way or another by gas prices ever since I worked at a gas station in college. At first it was just the geographic variation in prices, like how I could drive across the river from … Read More … Read More

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Five years in review: Your top 10 favorite posts from 2012-2017

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And just like how I detailed my all-time top 10 favorite posts, I decided to do the same with yours. Now, I know this couldn’t really be a good list of everyone’s “favorite” posts. But Google Analytics does a good … Read More … Read More

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Five years in review: My top 10 favorite posts from 2012-2017

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I’ve been writing this site for over five years. Wow. Every year I do a round up of both my favorite posts and your favorite posts. But with the five-year mark passed, I decided to take a look back. All the … Read More … Read More

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Year in review 2017: Your top 10 favorite posts

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It’s not all about me. While I wrote about my favorite posts for this year, I’m much more interested in your favorites. So I fired up my Google Analytics, that imperfect measure of interest, and looked up what were the … Read More … Read More

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Year in review 2017: My top 10 favorite posts

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Well here we are, on the cusp of the end of a huge year. Every year seems to be both over in a flash and incredibly long, and this year was no different. But on balance, this year was pretty … Read More … Read More

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Why people stop at wanting “more”

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So I’ve talked about the problem with just saying that you “want more”. In most contexts, I hear it about money, but there are plenty of other areas where we use this wording. People want “more” time. People want “more” … Read More … Read More

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Year in review 2016: Your top 10 favorite posts

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I wrote about my favorite posts for this year. But what about yours? Just like I did in 2015, 2014, and 2013, I ran a report and came up with the ten most-read posts for this year. … Read More

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Year in review 2016: My top 10 favorite posts

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What a year it’s been. This site has now been humming along for over four years now. As I continue to post twice per week, that means that there are over a hundred posts on this site over the past … Read More … Read More

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