Sentences with phrase «much of a couch potato»

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To find out the researchers rounded up a group of 500 Swiss and German study subjects and presented them with a series of questions about how much they worked, how exhausted they felt, and how much guilt they experienced after indulging in some couch potato time.

I sometimes get about halfway through making a recipe before I realize that I no longer have a taste for what I'm baking and I'd much prefer to sit on the couch and eat an entire bag of potato chips.

The pre «Millennial» generations of parents may have fought the «couch potato» sedentary lifestyle of being a telly addict and watching too much television.

Couch Potato investors should therefore choose their international funds carefully: US - listed ETFs from Vanguard and iShares have a much better record of tracking their indexes than their Canadian counterparts.

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.

Yet I get a lot of emails that go something like this: «I'm setting up a Couch Potato portfolio, but with interest rates rising, I don't want to put too much in bonds right now.

Myth 3: Dumping your old funds is easy One of the most surprising things we've learned from our readers is just how much resistance they've faced when trying to switch to a Couch Potato portfolio.

As it happens, this has the added benefit of allowing us to look at longer - term returns for the Global Couch Potato, since the e-Series has been around much longer than most of the ETFs on the list.

«The strategy can reduce a typical investor's costs by as much as 90 %, while at the same time beating the vast majority of mutual funds and professionally managed accounts,» writes Dan Bortolotti in his exceptional blog, Canadian Couch Potato.

Based on that weight, an older dog or a dog who doesn't really get much exercise (or who's just a bit of a couch potato) would need around 1,400 calories per day.

This Laurence Dishman post is very typical of the ignorant American couch potato, off the couch bro and open your eyes, but if you don't want to open your eyes I hope your family does not suffer the most for climate change, and keep those eyes closed so you don't get to much CO2 in them.