600 pages and people bailed at 80, that's a third of the way through a huge book. I get the life is too short thing but honestly our group finished a boring one last year and the talk after was better than any of us expected. Sometimes the slog is the point, you know?

Cardboard is all I've used for years now, mostly old Amazon boxes I cut down. Something about the give in it just works better, my gutters stopped wrinkling once I switched. People look at me weird but the books don't lie.

I noticed this pattern when I finally started paying someone $40 to mow my lawn every two weeks. The money felt dumb at first but the Saturday mornings I got back were worth way more than the cash, and I stopped dreading the weekend. Same thing with grocery pickup, costs a few bucks extra but saves me an hour of wandering aisles. We treat time like it's free but it's the one thing you can't buy more of later, so paying to get some back makes total sense.