Sentences with phrase «time as a couch potato»

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.

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In contrast, people described as «couch potatoes» are putting their health at risk by spending too much time sat down and not exercising, the paper said.

And as mop - topped teenage couch potato Garth (again drawn from life — this time based on Dana's brother Brad), Carvey was teamed with Mike Myers in a flawless on - going parody of cheap cable - access television.

John Ritter (Sling Blade, Tadpole) stars as Roy Knables, a mediocre plumbing supplies salesman by day, a couch potato at all other times.

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

I am seriously considering moving my entire portfolio into exchange - traded funds (ETFs) to lessen the management fees and follow a plan similar to the MoneySense Couch Potato strategy, which requires minimum time commitment and management, as I am a novice investor.

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.

«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.

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.

He is now «retired» and living the good life as a full - time couch potato.