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S&R had a buy-one-take-one sale over the weekend which the avid shopper might digest as buy-one-S&R-and-take-another-S&R-for-free.
So, how many buy-one-take-one items did we buy? Two: bath towels and hand wash liquid soap. Only a few of the rest of our purchases were discounted—most of them had regular prices.
The moment we entered S&R, there was the resolve to not avail of buy-one-take-one electric fans which we fell for in previous sales, that’s why each corner of the house now has one.
The rule in availing of any sale is to buy only the items you need. For example: a portable gazebo is useless for one who lives in a condominium with no terrace.
But a sale does tend to tempt the bargain hunter with offers too hard to resist, thus, he ends up buying unnecessary items that will also gather dust in a cabinet. Such as the books bought more than ten years ago because they were on sale but have remained unread in this age of e-books and the thinning line between fact and fiction.
A minimalist lifestyle is the cure to the lure of yet one more sale so that you’re not merely acquiring and storing things but acquiring and maximizing their usage. Stop allowing useless items from occupying precious space in your home sweet home.
“Exes Baggage” may also sound like it’s about minimalism—travel light and all that jazz—but the “exes” here lacks the letters a, c and s, giving the audience a hint on its plot.
“Exes” is about ex-significant others. People who have had only one love and married that one and only love won’t be able to relate with this movie because, hmmm, it takes one to know one, and this is also true for the senior who can relate with another senior dealing with knee pain. As long as he’s not a pain in the a** or a pain in the neck, he can be fine with some help from a doctor, paired with exercise and a healthy diet.
Exercise can cause injuries, though, so, caution is needed even when it’s as simple as a brisk walk.
Exercise has evolved from Jane Fonda to the Tractor Tire Exercise.
Like the diet, the best exercise is still the one you can stick with forevermore. Don’t enrol in a gym for a year, only to quit after a month.
Always remember, though, that it’s 80-percent food, 20-percent exercise. If you’re having dinner at an eat-all-you-can resto after lifting a tractor tire from Cagayan de Oro (CDO) to Siberia, don’t even expect to lose a pound.
And here’s one more addition to the 80-percent food: a Jollibee branch being built in uptown CDO. Its construction is 24/7, so, it’s possible to see some digging on the first day, columns on the second day, roof on the third day. Talk of fast food. I won’t be surprised if the Jollibee mascot is there now, welcoming guests to its grand opening. To eat or not to eat. That’s the question.
Intermittent fasting is one of the latest diet fads. Operative word: fasting. Which a Catholic may adopt for Holy Week. Operative word: may. Which can morph into, may not.
Fasting may cause some floating in space without physically being out there in the Milky Way.
If all diets fail, then, there’s laughter which is considered as the best medicine. But not for US President Donald Trump when it’s the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) laughing at him.
In his UN speech, he said, “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.”
“America’s…,” he continued but had to stop there as his audience began to laugh. He then said, “So true,” perhaps to assure the audience that his administration does have accomplishments. As for the laughter, he said, “Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s okay.”
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone” seemed to be the ambience at the UNGA then.
Some people noted that Trump is challenged when he’s laughed at, like what happened at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2011. Then President Barack Obama and comedian Seth Meyers, who’s now the host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” joked about him but when The Washington Post’s Roxanne Roberts asked if that night’s laughter was the reason he was running for president, he replied, “There are many reasons I’m running. But that’s not one of them.”
In case the UNGA laughter has indeed affected him, what will he do next? Run for world president?
But at least this we know: If ever there’s a buy-one-S&R-and-take-another-S&R-for-free, we gotta feeling Trump will grab the offer.
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