Month: December 2017

Piggy Bank - Good for Budgeting
side hustle

Big Blogiverse: My Side Hustle

I have started to reach out and build some relationships with other bloggers in the community. One such blogger runs a blog called My Side Hustle: Generating multiple income streams over in the UK. I was especially interested in this because it was one of my motivations for creating this blog (multiple streams of income;financial freedom;budgeting;etc).…

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Clearwater
Travel

Big Guy’s Guide to Travel: Clearwater, Florida

I've decided I'm only going to do these travel pieces monthly, in order to hide the fact that I rarely leave the South. I'm also going to attempt to introduce you to places of which you may have never have heard, or encourage you to go when folks don't, so you can be big in…

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Sleep Number 360 Bed
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Big Guy on the Sleep Number C4

If you've been with us for a while, you probably saw one of my first posts, Big Guy Sleeping the Wave, where I wrote about my purchase of a Casper Wave mattress. You may have also caught the follow-up to that yesterday, Big Guy on Returning the Casper, where I wrote about returning the mattress…

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Casper Mattress
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Big Guy on Returning the Casper :(

One of the first articles I wrote after starting Big Guy on Stuff was Big Guy Sleeping the Wave. This was a write-up of my experience buying the Casper Wave mattress and how it was holding up under a big guy's weight. I was really excited about this bed and completely on-board with what Casper was…

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Lodge Cast Iron
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Big Guy on Cooking: Lodge Cast Iron

Cast Iron cooking is one of my favorite ways to prepare a meal, particularly since I love a well-seared piece of protein. The science behind Cast Iron is fascinating, as cast iron is actually a terrible conductor of heat. It wants to be heated slowly, possibly in your oven. It wants to be bathed in…

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Dental Care Haiku
haiku

Big Guy on Haiku: Dental Hygienist

Dental Hygienist. You clean my teeth, gums, and mouth. I lick your fingers. Inspiration Continuing with the Sunday haiku tradition, this one was inspired by the dentist appointment that I had to reschedule last week. I actually wrote it a while back. Given the fact that I just had that appointment, it seemed to fit.…

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Editorial

Big Guy. Big Logo.

If you've been keeping up with the site updates, you may have noticed that I have been working on getting a logo. Well, the logo was completed yesterday! I was going to wait and put it up with this post, but I was too excited. You may have already seen it up there. In case…

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The sharing economy
side hustle

The Sharing Economy

This is another post from Fiverr user writer99025, and it continues from his last post on Freelancing. This time around, we're looking at making money by sharing. I have added comments again in brackets below where needed. How to Make Money in the Sharing Economy in 2018 Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you wouldn’t have escaped…

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Stitches Warhol: TP-Link Recolored
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Big Guy on Home Automation: TP-Link

It all started with an Echo. My story begins with the Amazon Echo. Go read that other story for a review about those. This story is about how I elevated that useful gadget into a marriage saving, life saving, sanity saving ecosystem thanks to TP-Link. TP-Link is not as well known as Phillips or Belkin…

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headlight restoration kit
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Big Guy on Headlight Restoration

This may seem a little odd for the site, but it's something I felt like I had to do after seeing the results. You may have seen a headlight restoration kit in your local auto store or online. Maybe you've even seen the guy setup on the side of the road with a sign that…

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