Sentences with phrase «do as a couch potato»

And when investing makes you nervous, you're liable to abandon your strategy, which is just about the worst thing you can do as a Couch Potato.

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And if you do that, I guarantee that you'll be as pleasantly surprised as I was when I transformed from couch potato to gym rat.

Satyanand's transformation from couch potato to runner may have been slow and steady (and clearly mimicable for most people), but just because it wasn't the stuff of late night fitness equipment infomercials, doesn't mean it wasn't just as transformative.

You don't want to see your kid as a typical potato couch one day, do you?

There will still be a plethora of games, because try as we might to find more productive things to do, we'll still end up on the couch watching Ohio and Nevada duke it out in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

It doesn't matter if you're thin as a rail or curvy, whether you're a couch potato or gym rat.

«I like to watch,» Chauncey says, who spends his whole life in front of a T.V., just as earth must be one big program to god, a couch potato himself, in the sense that all he does is observe the human struggle with the same indifference as the idiot gardener.

Obviously, if we don't confront the problem of couch - potato, computer - tethered kids, a daunting array of health problems will result as they grow up.

But as the time passes these students become couch potato and do not write anything regarding their studies.

If you are a Couch Potato investor, you don't actually need to benchmark your portfolio, since you are effectively replicating the benchmark with your strategy: index funds set out to deliver the same return as the indexes.

To do that, we recommend using an indexing strategy such as the Couch Potato (see page 44 for a recommended portfolio), or a low - cost balanced mutual fund (see page 42 for some recommended funds).

@Phil S: As Canadian Couch Potato says, holding bonds directly doesn't mean there is no volatility; it's just that we don't see it.

I just set up my couch potato 1 month ago (XIN, XBB, XSP, XIC) I did this over the ETF as I would be making once yearly contributions inside my TFSA — with this in mind.

I just set up my couch potato 1 month ago (XIN, XBB, XSP, XIC) I did this AS AN ETF as I would be making MORE than once yearly contributions — inside my TFSA — with this in minAS AN ETF as I would be making MORE than once yearly contributions — inside my TFSA — with this in minas I would be making MORE than once yearly contributions — inside my TFSA — with this in mind.

I don't see either of these as a significant offering for Couch Potato investors, since you can already get both markets with a single fund.

We hoped that Couch Potato investing might strike a few of our more thoughtful readers as a smart way to invest â $» smarter, at least, than simply buying a bucket of Nortel stock, which was what everybody else seemed to be doing at the time.

Say, for instance, if I did go for Dollarama and instead of growing like crazy as it has been recently, it suddenly tanked, while I'd lose that portion of money, a good chunk of it would be in safer investments like that trusty Couch Potato.

Today you can do a basic Couch Potato portfolio for an average annual cost of as little as 0.05 percent.

We flirted with the idea, even going so far as programming a couch - potato style DIY portfolio into the calculator, but ultimately decided against it, because the DIY option is hands - down the cheapest across almost all cases, and we didn't want to waste all of the time and effort we put into building the calculator for it to always and forever return a DIY portfolio as the result.

Danes are true couch potatoes and don't need nearly as much space as you might think.

This would be like a dog trainer claiming to the world they can train any dog to do anything so long as it is kept in a fenced yard, and the dog's temperament is as a couch potato, food loving, mild mannered, field dog bred, neutered, male, adult Labrador Retriever.

Just because you have a Nova Scotia Duck Toller, a breed often described as miniature Golden Retrievers on speed does not mean that there is something wrong with your couch potato Toller.

But don't overdo it... if your dog has been playing couch potato, start slowly and gradually increase exercise intensity as much as can be tolerated.

Do not use the winter season as an excuse to become a couch potato and ignore your health.

There are a number of legitimate reasons for career gaps and assuming you did not spend your time as a couch potato watching TV, you should not be reluctant to explain what the causes were.

There are numerous legitimate reasons for employment gaps and assuming you did not spend your time as a couch potato watching TV, you should not be afraid to explain what the reasons were.