This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. And to be clear up front: nothing here is financial advice — I’m just telling you what a dollar bought my family in Japan this summer. The Japanese yen is trading at about […]
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I’ve noticed something in how people find this blog: a lot of you are searching some version of “is Pinter legit?” or “what is a Pinter?” before you’re willing to hand over a credit card number. I get it. A company offers you a free beer-brewing machine if you just buy the beer, the ads
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Our family of four averaged seven to eight miles of walking a day in Japan. I know because my phone kept telling me, usually around the time one of our kids started negotiating for a taxi. Here’s how we actually got around — trains, cabs, Ubers, and a whole lot of sidewalk — and the
I’m going to be honest about my first reaction to Visit Japan Web: I thought it was a scam. Someone recommended it before our trip to Japan this summer. I pulled up the website, saw a URL I didn’t recognize, and found a plain-looking government form asking for my passport number. Every instinct I’ve developed
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This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Before this summer, I thought bidets were weird. Honestly, they were a little gross. Water shooting at my backside? No, thank you. I had no intention of ever using one. Then we went
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A note before we start: this is a personal tribute, not reporting and not medical advice. Where I talk about how a fall can turn deadly, I’m speaking generally about midlife health — not making any claim about what happened to Stacey King. As of this writing, his cause of death has not been officially
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Disclosure: Nothing in this article is financial, legal, tax, or investment advice, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold anything. This is an explainer, not a nudge. With that said, I’ve been getting the same question all week: “How do I get a piece of the SpaceX IPO?” These are smart,
I’d been circling smart glasses for about a year before I finally pulled the trigger on the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) Wayfarers. We are traveling as a family to Japan this summer and I wanted something easier than my phone to take quick pictures and videos. Voilà – here comes some new smart glasses. These
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I didn’t plan on owning three wearables. Like a lot of things in midlife, it just sort of happened one purchase, one cracked screen, and one “this might be useful” decision at a time. My first real Apple Watch was the Apple Watch Series 4. I may have had an earlier one, but the Series
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Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, Midlife Truth may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Last year at a youth soccer tournament, my son went in for a 50/50 ball. His foot caught a girl square on the shin who was wearing small soccer shin
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