IT Insights Blog — Savings

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It's a brand new year. A blank slate. A fresh canvas. A new leaf. What do the next 12 months have in store? That's what makes this time of year so exciting and invigorating. There's a great big TBD out there, and it's up to each of us what gets determined over the coming weeks and months. What is the looming "to be determined" element in your life? There's really only one person who can make that decision — and then make it stick.

There are a lot of different ways that you could spend your money right now. Assuming, of course, that there's anything left over after you just spent half of what you earn in a month to stock up on beef jerky and energy drinks so that you can spend the next four days in a sleeping bag outside the neighborhood movie theater waiting for the first screening of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Oh, yeah, bring it on!

What goes together better than chocolate and peanut butter? Psych! It's a trick question. Nothing goes together better than chocolate and peanut butter, son. Even peanut butter and apples, or peanut butter and bread with jam (or jelly) on it, or Sylvester Stallone and Mr. T in a boxing ring, or cheese and pepperoni on a pizza crust, or maple-glazed donuts and bacon bits — nope. None of that goes together better than peanut butter and chocolate.

Black is the absence of visible light; an achromatic color; a symbolic representation of evil, or mourning, or authority (think religious or judicial robes); a philophical boundary; the most common hue of the printed word; and even a longstanding racial and ethnic identifier. That's a lot of responsibility for a single word to shoulder. And somehow or other, in recent years, black has also come to represent huge savings.