Sentences with phrase «more of a couch potato»

If you are more of a couch potato stay at home type who loves pets and home life, we really might be the right couple for you!

Activity level: Do you want a dog that is more of a couch potato?

On the other hand if your trusty companion is more of a couch potato then you should consider catching them during their naps or doing some kind of cute indoor activity.

Are you more of a couch potato longing for a relaxation buddy?

Do you want your pet to be a part of an active lifestyle, more of a couch potato or somewhere in between?

Not exact matches

You need to get off your couch, brush the potato chips off your chest, lay off beating your wife for 5 minutes, and try getting at least a hundred yards or more outside the front door of your trailer and see a bit of the world.

(In all reality, it was more like «dinner's ready let's watch Princess Bride on the couch while we eat...» but hey presto is a relative term) Ramblings aside, I hope you enjoy this non-traiditonal spin on sweet potatoes and resurrect the joy of the side dish in your life.

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.

In some cases, men who exercised heavily — perhaps 30 to 45 minutes of vigorous activity five or more days a week — experienced just half the prostate - cancer incidence of couch potatoes.

By understanding what goes on in athletic heads, researchers hope to understand more about the workings of all brains — those of sports legends and couch potatoes alike.

FRIDAY, May 18, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Attention, middle - age couch potatoes: There's still time to lower your risk of heart failure, a condition affecting more than 5 million Americans.

Published in Archives of Internal Medicine this week, a new study analyzed 200,000 people and found that prolonged time spent on our derrieres may contribute to an untimely demise, in part because it increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.Specifically, researchers found that adults who sit for 11 or more hours a day (add up your driving time, office time and «Real Housewives» couch potato time) have a 40 percent increased risk of dying in the next three years compared with those who sit less than four hours a day.

I tend to do a little more than this (not just eccentric exercise), but only because it makes me feel better about myself to do so, and I actually enjoy it after 30 years of near couch potato levels of activity.

There's nothing worse than a lazy couch potato, but with a sports dating site you're far more likely to meet the man of your dreams who likes to keep in shape.

Are you doing more than an impression of a couch potato?

On the other hand, defined goals can help those of us who might otherwise become TV watching, junk food eating couch potatoes, with nothing more -LSB-...]

sred: I track a couple of couch potato portfolios — for smaller portfolios, I use the TD e-Series Index Funds and for larger portfolios I use low - cost, broad - market index funds and more diversification by adding real - return bonds, REITs and emerging markets:

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Assuming typical rates of return, the money you would save by becoming a Couch Potato would be more than enough to buy you a luxury car in 10 years» time even if you were never to invest another cent in your portfolio.

The first is whether the Couch Potato strategy is effective with portfolios of several hundred thousand dollars or more.

If you're a longtime reader of MoneySense, you know the magazine has recommended Couch Potato investing for more than a decade.

An investor building a small Global Couch Potato portfolio could use VXC in place of separate US and international holdings: that would reduce trading costs and complexity, as well as adding a bit more diversification with a slice of emerging markets.

Similarly, applying this method to a global portfolio with four asset classes and rebalancing monthly, would have generated gains of 12.1 % per year, beating the classic Couch Potato by 2.1 percentage points per year and with only a little more volatility than the regular version.

During the decade ending in 2010, the Global Couch Potato outperformed more than 85 % of comparable balanced mutual funds.

The recent performance of my model portfolios has been excellent: in 2013, the humble Global Couch Potato returned more than 15 %, and over the last five years, a balanced index portfolio could easily have achieved 10 % annualized returns.

Of course, pension funds are a lot more sophisticated than your average Couch Potato — I'm pretty sure they don't buy ETFs through BMO InvestorLine.

Here is part two of my interview with Scott Burns, the newspaper columnist and Chief Investment Strategist at AssetBuilder who created the original Couch Potato portfolio more than 20 years ago.

All of this means that it's typical for a Couch Potato portfolio to underperform the broad - market indexes by 0.5 % to 1 % every year, and sometimes by much more.

The index mutual funds and exchange - traded funds we recommend in the Couch Potato portfolios track the broad DEX Universe Bond Index, which includes a wide range of maturities, from one year to more than 25 years.

They may want to check out the Couch Potato portfolio to learn more about the basics of passive investing,» says Garbens.

If you're a Couch Potato investor you're probably not buying individual bonds: you're more likely to buy index funds or ETFs that hold hundreds of bonds.

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.

Of course, there are some who would say that simply running a passive Couch Potato portfolio or even just flipping a coin when deciding what to invest in is a lot easier and often more profitable to an investor's bottom line.

«I know it's a more aggressive form of the couch potato, but I looked at historical investment returns and because I'm younger, I know I can take on more risk,» says Rousseau.

At the moment, lots of readers are encouraging us to devote more space in the Couch Potato portfolios to Canadian stocks because Canadians stocks have soared over the past five years.

I prefer the global variant of the global couch potato, which is more diversified than the classic version.

Consider this: the Global Couch Potato lost more than 20 % during the worst six months of the 2008 — 09 financial crisis — and that's with a 40 % allocation to bonds.

The total number of stocks in the DFA fund is close to 8,000, while the Complete Couch Potato has more than 10,000.

But if you're more of a «Couch Potato» investor who isn't trying to time the market, you might choose to hold very little cash in your portfolio.

«I just need to talk through the merits of the Couch Potato Portfolio one more time and get reassurance that I'm still doing the right thing,» she says.

But, as noted earlier, the record shows that Couch Potato investing has a very high probability of providing a higher return than 60 to 75 percent of all managed funds — and still more if you are paying significant fees for managing your portfolio of funds.

Interestingly, after we recorded that (but before it went live), Dan Bortolotti (of Canadian Couch Potato) gave the final talk of the Canadian Personal Finance Conference, where a major theme was the failings of investor behaviour, and how he's grown more pessimistic over the years as to how many people should be taking a DIY route to investing.

You can learn more about creating a Couch Potato portfolio on my website, but it can be as simple as a 50/50 mix of the U.S. total stock market and the U.S. total bond market.

Even if your dog isn't a true athlete and is more the couch potato type of pooch, this can still happen.

Breeds that need lots of exercise take more time than couch potatoes.

Even if they've come from a life of misery at the racing track, they're more than willing to greet you with love and be your fellow couch potato.