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As ironic as it sounds, I feel like ever since I became a lifter I have become less materialistic. Only lifters would know that money doesn’t buy happiness. How many of us lift to fill a void and see that the problems are still there? It’s pathetic watching people chase over material goods… once you’re a lifter everything looks the same to you. You don’t place value on anything. You’re not idolizing material goods. It’s like the “materialistic” side of me is satiated and I can focus on other aspects of my life. Materialistic people think having expensive things is going to solve their problems. It feels good for a second to own something expensive and then you want the next thing. Lifting puts me in control; I’m no longer a slave to consumerism.

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This is so beautifully written and I totally agree. The thousands I’m saving instead of spending on clothes or food is going into my graduate school, so I can actually do something good with my life. Imagine a world without this level of consumerism. We could actually go so far.

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10/10 Grocery Method

This method has worked for me and everyone else I’ve shared it with, honestly I was just sitting in the car one day, and thought of this. Won’t work for a huge grocery haul but is PERFECT FOR CONCEALING. This works at any grocery store. Get your items in a basket or whatever and go to the freezer section to be “looking for ice cream” as you are looking for ice cream have your purse situated on the side of your body where the door is blocking you; the condensation will block the next part. the items you want to conceal should be in your hand and literally just drop them In! So easy and works 10/10. No grocery stores know of this yet…. I literally just thought of this about a month ago & it’s perfect because the condensation on the door will make it pretty much impossible for the cameras to see you. I also prefer to lean in so my body is almost inside the freezer, for even more comfort knowing no one can see you ;)

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You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter. You aren't cold. You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay.

— Sylvain Reynard

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice on Short Stories

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

The greatest American short story writer of my generation was Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964). She broke practically every one of my rules but the first. Great writers tend to do that.

–Kurt Vonnegut, preface to Bagombo Snuff Box