 Happy Tuesday! Today I’m sitting here in awe after reading about a man who paid $150 a year to eat all his meals at Six Flags. As a result, he was able to pay down his student loans, get married and buy a house. What a king, albeit one who can no longer stomach the smell of turkey dogs! While the tips and advice below aren’t quite as dramatic, they are universal and accessible — something a little more useful to the rest of us who don’t work next door to a theme park. Genius.
Janie
Take Back Your Life Hiring a pet sitter is a big responsibility. You’re entrusting someone to care for your beloved furry or scaly family member, and often you’re letting that person into your home for hours at a time. The stakes are high: As a CNN investigation into the pet-sitting platform Rover showed, negligent or non-responsive sitters can mean lost or dead pets. That’s why interviewing a prospective sitter is so important. Here are the five most important things pet sitters said you should ask up front before hiring someone:
Deal With It  When you get distracted at work, you lose valuable focus. A researcher at the University of California, Irvine, who studied this problem told Fast Company that workers who are interrupted by phone calls and emails need an average of about 23 minutes to get back on task and end up feeling more stress and frustration than their peers. Sometimes, these interruptions that distract you are coming from bosses or co-workers. But often, your own mindless habits are sabotaging your productivity ― and you instinctively repeat them.
Pro Tip: If you’re generous enough to share your Amazon Prime password with loved ones, or simply shop from a shared computer, there’s always a chance that someone could stumble upon your recent activity. And sometimes, you’d rather no one else know your business, whether that’s a record of embarrassing personal care product orders or that time you shopped for something unmentionable. Maybe you just want to cover up traces of a surprise gift. Whatever the reason, here’s how to delete Amazon orders and hide your browsing activity.
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