Great questions!
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Like many of us, @faire seems a bit irrational about money but most of the time it doesn’t seem to matter because just knowing there are real consequences to derailing gives beemergencies plenty of urgency. There have been some of Faire’s Beeminder goals in the past where she was derailing frustratingly often so we sprung for a premium plan for her so she could cap pledges at $0. But then we haven’t taken advantage of that much. At some point it became a habit to make sure all goals were out of the red before going to bed and things have been mostly humming along ever since.
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Yes, it’s a parental directive that the sugar road stay dialed to 3 pieces of candy per day. Faire is extremely conscientious about this. She also counts juice and other sources of sugar (anything that is mostly sugar, with the exception of actual fruit).
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I’ve been telling @faire that pages would be better but she seems to be set in her ways. (: I think it would be especially handy for Battle of the Books because she could make sure she’s on track to finish all the books in time for the competition. See also @philip’s thoughts: Beeminding your reading, page count vs time