Thomas L Holaday




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pay off debt
Saving as part of debt-payoff plan 3 years ago

Although from a purely mathematical point of view you make more by paying down debt than by saving, I found that putting some money into a savings account each month instead of using it all to pay down debt gave me a sense of getting ahead. It also helped control spending impulses, because I was more thoughtful about spending my savings than I was about increasing my debt.



Read Bruce A. Ackerman
Bruce A. Ackerman has good ideas 4 years ago

The review of “The Failure of the Founding Fathers” by Gordon Wood at http://www.powells.com/tnr/review/2005_11_10 caught my interest.



do two pullups
daily or alternate? 4 years ago

I can do one full chinup but get stuck halfway up during the second. I can’t do one pullup yet. I don’t know whether it’s better to exercise to failure every day, because it takes a trivial amount of time for my arm muscles to fail, or to skip days so the arms can recover from the strain.



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