Comments on: 17 Things you Should Stop Doing

By: clerihew

clerihew — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:39:06 +0000

I’m sure that horrible attitude and foul mouth saves a lot of time and money. What a sad individual.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:42:03 +0000

Well if your time is worth nothing…. Plus any savings is likely offset by running your engine longer to make more frequent trips to the gas station.

By: HostingBest

HostingBest — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:07:25 +0000

“Partially filling up with gas” – What about the savings you make from the vehicle being lighter due to less fuel being carried around?

By: Productive Mindset

Productive Mindset — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:06:10 +0000

I think you need to offer him a refund! LOL. He can’t afford a tank of gas? Explains everything.

By: Productive Mindset

Productive Mindset — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:04:10 +0000

Great list and so true, it is amazing how many redundant things we do over and over to avoid stopping for five minutes to eliminate it.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:29:52 +0000

If you can’t afford a full tank of gas, it is simply a cash management issue. You are still going to use the same amount of gas and the same amount of money over all–it is just a matter of how much time you spend at the pump.

I’m not sure how working 7 to 4 would lose you more pay than working 8 to 5. If it saves you 15 to 20 minutes a day of being in traffic I don’t see how you lose any time.

By: Drackmore

Drackmore — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:42:21 +0000

This is the worst list I have ever seen. Complete pile of shit. Besides, we have all the time in the world. Also notice these are the things we WOULD be doing if we had the money.
3. What if you can’t afford a full tank? Happens to me all the time.
4. Some people forget about the little things.
5. Oh… can’t afford 2nd cord? Thisuns’ out!
6. What the **** is Apple Mail! If you can’t find it on Google, it ain’t there!
7. All for people with big bucks. I don’t want to pay 20 dollars for 4 or 5 episodes.
8. Don’t have a phone that can do this. Sorry. Well, I would be if this list wasn’t so useless!
9. Good. No problems. Not needed if you don’t go to college though, still no fault with it though.
10. …NO. Plain **** outright stupid. Losing pay, time, and pissing ALL the wrong people off!
13. What am I doing right now?
14. Everything gets infected dumbass. Getting stupider as we go! t(”t)
15. This causes drivers to be distracted, thus crashing, wasting time with more paperwork than you would need to if you weren’t distracted.
16. Can’t afford.
17. wtf?

EPIC FAIL! What a gigantic waste of my time.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:18:10 +0000

I already follow most of the items here but I loved the newsreader idea and I got it immediately after reading the article.
Thanks for the tip!

By: seocompany

seocompany — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:13:34 +0000

I strongly agree with tips number 12. Backing Up to CDs or Disks. I’ve been doing this whenever I am reformatting my computer. And such a waste of time backing up my files in a CD or DVD. Now all I have to do is get an external hard drive.
It will be fast enough that maybe you’ll go ahead and backup more
often.
Thanks for posting!

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:06:30 +0000

@Josephine - I can't speak to your school, but there are some very well done distance education classes out there. Obviously I'm not suggesting to take classes from a place without a good program. If you aren't limited to nearby locations you can take from a school that has really good online classes.

By: Josephine

Josephine — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:28:30 +0000

Sorry, but I have to disagree with item 9. Commuting to College. As a full-time student who has taken some online classes (and only because an onsite equivalent was not offered), as far as I can see, they are “watered-down” and a waste of my time and money.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:58:52 +0000

Great tips! As a self-employed I often find myself wasting time on some of the mentioned things. I like to use this as an example: In stead of wasting 45 minutes on waiting for the bus I often take a cab (which are extremely expensive here in Denmark). It might cost me like 50$, but if I can spend that time on a client and earn 80$ I’d rather do that.

By: John

John — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:58:15 +0000

LOL arthur re clubbing:seal ratio. haha. Yeah this list was pretty week. useful reminders. fortunately do almost all those. except the two adapters one. not likely, but may look into that.

By: juice

juice — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:43:52 +0000

#9 is just ridiculous. One of the most important things I got out of my ocurse was the networking and brainstorming.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:04:41 +0000

@Okey…

1. If you give an average computer user three computers, one running Linux, one OS X, and one Windows XP it is unlikely that they will all have the same amount of spyware and adware after a few months of usage.

2. It probably depends on what you are studying, but for many people once you’ve had the undergraduate experience, it makes a lot of sense to use distance education for your advanced degrees.

@Colin – I understand your point. I don’t listen to podcasts very often when driving in a town or city. However, on the highways I think podcasts help keep me more alert because I don’t “zone out”. It may not work that way for everyone.

@Tijl – Well I would be looking at a 23 hour commute for the classes I’m taking so the distance option is a huge timesaver for me. :)