Looks great. Why do you get a 10% discount?
True, and that is one of the two ways I like fish (battered and fried is the other one, or i guess super fresh right out of the water is the third, like when I used to go fishing. Get some Mahi-Mahi within minutes of being coast, cook over open charcoal, with a little lemon, and it is fantastic. )
For enduring a trip to the doctor or dentist, I am generally awarded at least one plant.
A plant? I’m into gardening. What’s your crop around there? I’m thinking summer squash but I’d love for you to expand my horizon.
My only guess is that we live in a small town that in someway our taxes support them? Beats me. We just moved here, and our property taxes are going to be quite high.
We’ve eaten there wonderful food, love the crème brûlée.
I have this app I use and it’s silly, but it genuinely helps me with some of this kind of stuff.
It’s called Finch. You get a little bird and you look after it by checking off items on your goal list. It’s pretty flexible, so a lot of my friends use it for different things. My friend says hers is almost all basic self-care and mental health things like “give yourself permission to rest” and “drink water.” I use mine more as a to-do list or chore list to remind me to trim the dogs’ nails and clean the toilet and renew my driver’s license and things like that. You earn rewards in the app, but mostly, I just like having everything checked off my list at the end of the day.
As for non-app rewards, I treat TV time (by which I mean streaming any kind of show on any device) as something I have to earn. Generally, the rule is that I can watch a show only if I’m folding my laundry. That gives me incentive to fold the laundry and keeps me from losing hours to some TV show I might not even enjoy that much.
Once in awhile I’ll come into a windfall…tax refund, unexpected bonus from work. I’ll ‘get a dollar and spend a dime’…so I’ll blow some smaller part of it (25% or less) and save the rest. it’s enough to make me feel rewarded, and goes into the fund for things like Fridges and AC repair and medical bills.
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Food. It’s always been that way. Not good.
I’m turning 63 next week, and 5’ 10" and morbidly obese. So, not good.
I had a love affair with Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews in late elementary school and through Jr. High. I mean, I stored them in my desk in my bedroom. Got a pittance of an allowance, always went to these.
Now, in the last few years, when driving back and forth between NYC and Philly, I’ve taken to stopping into Wawa and buying a pack. Or two. Or three.
I’ve had flashbacks to sitting in my room at age 12, slowly and methodically eating my way through a regular pack.
So yeah. Food. Problem is, it’s both a reward AND punishment device.
Could be worse. I think. Could be that I directed my addictive impulses to much more lethal items.