This is just what you’ve been looking for: another article about the slumping economy. Don’t worry! I’m not going to preach at you about why to not invest in the stock market or hide all of your savings under your mattress. I’m simply going to give you some practical help from my personal experience on how you too can shave some dollars off of your grocery expenses while at the same time burning fat and building muscle.

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Hopefully this article will fulfill three purposes. One, it will prevent engaged couples from registering for junk that they will never use. Two, it will prevent wedding gift-givers from giving junk that the bride and groom will never use. Three, it will relegate junk to thrift stores, yard sales, and landfills where it belongs. With that said, I submit to you an in-exhaustive list of what not to put on your wedding registry.

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Dadhood. Not Fatherhood...Dadhood. It's hard to think of myself as a father just yet. Fathers are..."old." At least I hope I'm not a father yet by that definition. At 27, I shouldn't be. When my wife Heidi gave birth to our first son two years ago, I experienced a new paradigm in my life. No longer did I see myself as a young married guy just out of college. Now I had to face up to the reality that I was "Husband" and "Dad."

Father seems to be a term more suited to being used in the 1950's. We can all picture the 11-year-old boy entering the living room wearing some not quite long enough slacks and sweater vest carrying a baseball bat over his shoulder with a glove on the end. In the easy chair sits "Father." He's always dressed to the nines with wing tips and necktie. Usually he's reading the paper; perhaps smoking a pipe. Son addresses "Father."

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