Pretty expensive habit to start though
599512
Does the job. Pretty expensive habit to start though. Goes fast!
1412461
I like that works good. That was a problem little bit first when I started but I get hang of it
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I only rate this a 4 instead of a 5 purely because of the tedium of overriding the weight restriction. While I understand the restriction and realize it's a balance between charging too much and reaching the most people, another 20 lbs on the weight restriction seems necessary around these parts (I see a whole lot of people my size around here {and I'm not even in the US for those who will want to comment on that}).

While it may not be a replacement for a gym, for people who really need to lose the weight, this is a great starting point. It's (mentally) safe because you don't have to go out in public where people make stupid comments within earshot, and it's fun.

I also find that while I'm definitely working and sweating and my muscles are shaking trying to hold poses, I'm not bored like I would be if I were just doing it on my own - my mind isn't focused on it being work, it's focused on keeping that little red dot in the yellow circle. Just having the mental exercise to go along with it makes it a whole different experience, and so much easier for somebody new-ish to actually trying to get fit than just diving into "normal-people-exercise".

My mom bought me this as a birthday present without reading the weight restriction on it, and I was pretty dismayed when I got it home and it told me I was too fat to have fun losing weight. Actually, I was more than dismayed, but we'll leave it at that.

However, for the rest of you who are a little above the weight limit and are fretting about how to lose those first few pounds on your own so you can use the Wii Fit, don't fret. There *is* a way to get around it. (Just check with your doctor, yada yada, realize the weight limit's there for a reason, yada yada, if it breaks, don't blame me or Nintendo.)

For the official beginning weigh-in, sit on a chair, put your feet on the board, elbows on your knees, and lean forwards so at least most of your weight is on the board - be careful to be steady, because it likes complaining 20 times that you're fidgeting if you do this. It also weighs you at the beginning of each new exercise. For that, you don't need as much balance or accuracy, so just putting a single foot on the board and leaning on it is enough. It'll complain that you weigh differently, but you can still hit continue without it re-setting.

I'm actually really excited about this, and I really do truly believe it'll help me lose weight. Yes, it's harder for people close to the weight limit than for other people, but if it's not hard it's not working, right? It's not so hard that it loses its fun or that it's discouraging. You can feel your muscles working pretty hard, and you know it's doing something and that you'll get better, so it's actually a pretty good motivator if you can't do something. You just want to get better. So what if I can't get any points on the Tree Pose yet? I know that by next week with some practice and work I'll be scoring something. It's also exciting unlocking new things I can do, and it's good knowing that once I get good at something, it'll unlock something harder or more reps or something else like new activities.

As for people elsewhere who have scoffed at this and said things like "It's just leaning!", well, they're wrong. The balance board is actually pretty darn sensitive, and it takes some pretty serious muscle control to get through the games and poses. I actually found myself working up a sweat just after a couple balance games, and I really hadn't expected that even after playing them a bit.

Overall, I'm just really looking forward to seeing what I can do with this. I really feel like the Fit is hope for a whole lot of people who have felt pretty hopeless. (Of course, if you're still going to the buffet every week, you're gonna have problems no matter what you do! haha ...Or, not haha so much...)

I think Fit has it right. Life's all about balance.
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Not software but it is what I need to start on my journey to figure out my spending habits and how to curb them
2044400
Terrible habit to break, but this is helpful for sure, thank you (given to a smoking neighbor who's making sincere effort)!
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The theories espoused by the authors are quite good but putting them into  practice would be next to impossible. Following their advice wouldn't give  you extra time; as a matter of fact, it would have the opposite effect.  You'd spend each and every waking moment charting your expenses and income,  tracking every penny you spend, analyzing every purchase until the object  of your desire became obsolete, and would become a classic  obsessive-compulsive. So, while their ideas are fiscally sound, the only  way to achieve their brand of financial independence is to become  completely dependent on finances. Yes, clip coupons; yes, spend wisely;  yes, put your savings into something with a decent yield. But lighten up.  You can't enjoy yourself if you go through life watching the dashboard for  warning lights to go off. And one more thing:  if the authors have achieved  the brand of financial independence they preach, why aren't they selling  their book at cost?
78384
For what it is, it's kind of expensive. You could diy something like this pretty easily. but otherwise very durable
3293361
This was a lot of fun but expensive for what it is.
312266
buying it early from different regions is easy but may be expensive.
55748
Used this to make kiddo some Keto Hot Cocoa Mix.  Pretty expensive however, so I might cut it half with regular powdered milk.
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If cost weren't an issue, I would make this cream part of my daily routine. I love the way it improves the way the skin on my neck and chest, its smooth and silky texture and its absence of an unpleasant or artificial fragrance. But it's very expensive: $145 for a jar that lasts about six months. This makes it almost as costly as the Cadillac of moisturizers, Le Mer. So frankly, I can't give this product five stars. It's simply too expensive, considering that it does not contain SPF protection--and my doctor suggests daily use of SPF 30, even on hazy days. For the moment, I will stick with more moderately priced products--at least until the makes of LIFTLAB Lift & Moisturize Daily Cream add SPF--and possibly lower the price.
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Works well, but the mixes are pretty expensive.  We improvise and use standard size mixes, in very small measurements.
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I love how detailed the instructions are on the app (no need to use the booklet with instructions). The app is super easy to use and connect. However, the actual product is hard to use when it comes to assembling parts, you actually have to press really hard to insert the bits and quite often they come off.

I knew the product is very expensive but I purchased it anyway so my kids can have fun building something together. Now I realize that the product is even more expensive than what it's worth considering how hard it is (must use physical strength) to connect the bits inside parts. I think this item is not worth more than $120 although the idea is very good.
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I'm buying a replacement for my original all-ett which I've had for almost 6 years now.  The outside 'base' of my wallet has finally worn through from the pressure of coming and going from my pocket with the cards corners pressing on it inside, and it's time to get started on my next one.

I say get started, because it takes a little patience to use this wallet when you first get it.  I almost feel like they should pre-distress these at the manufacturer, because of the annoying noise it makes when you first get it - akin to the new Sun Chips bags.  The crinkle _does_ go away, but it takes almost a month or two.  I plan to leave the empty wallet in my pants for a month and see if it goes away on its own just by moving around and me pulling things out of my pocket.  Fingers crossed, because that crinkle is painful.

So - that's the first important tip: the crinkle goes away after it's been used a while.  It's absolutely horrible when you first get it, I purchased my first one after seeing a friends (who had had it for a number of months), and I too was worried when I first received it, until he assured me it goes away.  It really does.

The second tip - as a number of reviewers here have noted, is the card slipperiness.  I have about 4 cards on one side and 7 cards on the other, and it seems to work fine.  You get used to opening it so your thumb holds the center of the side that's "open", or you open it with two hands.  The 'tall card' trick may work, I don't know - my cards only slip out if I flip my wallet open violently, and at that point I deserve to be picking things up off the floor.

If you don't have a lot of cards, I would recommend not 'balancing' your cards out across all the pockets, but rather filling up a side at a time before moving to the other - or just get the sport or traveller or another wallet that is sized better for it.  If you get Cardstar (IOS) or a similar app for your phone, you can probably get rid of most of the extra cards in your wallet anyway, though then you have to spend 20 seconds getting your phone out, loading the app, and reading the number off.
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Ok I've owned this bad boy for about 3 years now, and here are my thoughts. This vacuum has fairly good suction power and pretty much everyday we run it, it has a nice collection of dust/hair/etc (we have two dogs).

But I have some problems with it, at least in our house, and so that's why I give it 3 stars instead of 5.
1) This thing is expensive, but you still have to buy replaceable parts fairly regularly. They recommend a new filter every 3 months or so. That adds up pretty quick for something that I bought for $700. $500 dysons come with washable filters. On top of that, you'll need to replace the little spinny brush thing when they wear down.
2) This thing requires a fair bit of maintenance just to keep it operating well. About every couple weeks or so, you will want to pull out the rollers and pull off any strings/lint/hair/etc that's trapped in it. You will need to do the same for the spinny brush, and the front wheel. If you don't, it will start to clog and degrade its performance.
3) I don't know if it's fair, but I'm docking quite a bit for how well it actually functions in our house. It's not clear (or at least it wasn't when we bought it) how this truly works. It runs for about an hour or so, and after a certain amount of time it will stop and start its journey back to the docking station. It does that to prevent it from running out of juice while vacuuming. Our house is pretty average sized here, about 1800 sq ft, and this thing cannot come close to vacuuming our whole house. Basically, it just goes randomly every day, and if you let it run enough times over the course of a week or two, you have some reasonable assurance that it has probably touched every spot at least once. But its algorithm is intentionally random, so you really don't know. I was hoping it would vacuum the house in each program.
4) It's algorithm doesn't seem to behave well around common obstacles. I have come home wtih thsi thing stuck more often than docked. Our house isn't cluttered I think, but it gets stuck in between dining chairs, our coffee table, etc.
5) Every once in a while, although admittedly rarely, this thing hits an object in a magical way that detaches the collection bin. This stupid thing will just keep going if it comes off, basically just vacuuming up dust and spewing it back out the back end. Are you serious? Seems kind of like an obvious thing to build in.
6) It doesn't seem to clean very well on our rugs. We generally bust out our normal, non-AI vacuum to clean the rugs to get the dog hair stuck in the shag (and it's not really that shaggy of a rug, pretty standard).
7) Virtual walls, etc., are all designed to help this thing work through larger areas, but by the time you buy all of those you have spent a crap ton of money just to get this thing to work like it probably should to begin with (at that price at least...).

All in all we're still glad with the purchase, but realistically at $700 MSRP I expected something a bit more "production". The vacuum power is great, but the robot/algorithm piece needs a fair amount of work. I also expect to have more reusable parts and less purchasing of components for something that expensive. And I don't really know what to do about cleaning hair out of the parts every week or two, I don't know how to solve that but it's kind of a pain.
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While this is a practical and fun way to garden which I am implementing myself this year, I have to say a few things have NOT been as easy as the book made it sound:

1.  The author suggests mixing all the bed ingredients on a tarp with another person, then dragging it to the beds.  I found that just the ingredients for one 4 x 6 bed were too heavy to lift and drag with my son, and was thankful I hadn't tried to mix all my beds at once as suggested (wouldn't have fit on the tarp anyway).  You're going to need real strong help with this part.  I next tried just mixing the stuff in the beds but that was difficult too.  If you are not a football player or are working alone, getting these beds filled is going to be a bigger challenge than you would guess from your reading.  I also found it took more material to fill my beds than the book suggested, but then I noticed the peat moss and vermiculite bags and bales I bought were not quite as big as the book suggests; those sizes simply weren't available in my area, apparently.

2. Vermiculite is hard to find and expensive, though I agree it's probably worth it.  I've only found it at Agway so far and I live in a fairly agricultural area.

3. I could definitely have used a little more specific help with the compost.  It usually comes in 30 lb or 40 lb bags -- would it have been so hard to suggest how many would probably make up the amount needed for one 4 x 4 bed?  I feel I've pretty much had to eyeball this one, which has meant extra trips to the store.  The instruction to use five different types is a pain too, since most stores around here carry the same three options, including humus that is surely very similar in make-up to the peat mosse.  The author appears to live in some sort of retail compost & vermiculite paradise.

4. Raised beds are not necessarily ideal for drought, which we had here in early spring (that has since reversed itself big time).  The beds dry out so quickly I'm not sure it would even be safe to leave them for a weekend.  I would think people in chronically dry areas might want to modify the mix so it's not quite so light, or dig their square foot beds DOWN, not up.  (Not easy, I know.)

5.  This book must have been rushed through editing; two sections on basil that say pretty much the same thing are clearly redundant.

On the plus side, the approach makes a lot of sense as a way to cope with poor soil, and advice about the individual plants is very good too.  Just make sure that if this is for your poor old Grandma, she gets a lot of strong help (and some extra $$) to get it going.
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I am really excited to try Pavlok. Who DOESN'T have a bad habit they'd like to break? Truthfully, I have a few that I plan to use Pavlok for (and a couple in mind for my husband!).
The big focus for me this fall is eating healthier and getting in more exercise. The first habit I need to break is cutting out all the junk food - especially SUGAR! I've really struggled with this on my own, but it needs to happen.