Jason Bailey

It’s too late to change your life in 2015. But 2016? That’s the year when you’re finally gonna do it, man. That’s the year.

According to a new survey, 71% of people have already planned out their New Year’s resolutions.

The most common plan is . . . losing weight. 52% of people say they plan on resolving to drop pounds in 2015. But until then, I guess there are still two months of gorging time available?

18% of people plan to make a resolution to work out more, and 15% plan to curb their stress and anxiety.

Not surprisingly, only 11% of people surveyed think they’ll end up sticking with their resolutions. More than two-thirds of people who’ve made resolutions in the past say they abandoned their plans before the end of January.

Have you ever thought about applying for a job with an exciting-sounding job title . . . then realized it was just a way to make a regular, boring job sound fancier?

A new poll asked people to name the most ridiculous job titles they’d heard people use for less glamorous positions. Here are the 10 best . . .

1. A paperboy is a “Media Distribution Officer”.

2. A street sweeper is a “Highway Environmental Hygienist”.

3. A window washer is a “Transparency Enhancement Facilitator”.

4. A recruiter is a “Talent Delivery Specialist”.

5. A garbage man is a “Sanitation Engineer”.

6. A toilet cleaner is a “Public Waste Technician”.

7. A food truck worker is a “Mobile Sustenance Facilitator”.

8. A call center worker is a “Communication Executive”.

9. A dishwasher is “Gastronomical Hygiene Engineer”.

10. A painter is a “Color Distribution Technician”.

Daily Mail

Hope you’re saving money, because Christmas is going to do its best to bankrupt you this year.

A new study by the consulting company Deloitte found the average person will spend almost $1,500 on the holidays this year. Here’s how that breaks down . . .

$487 on gifts.

$348 going to holiday parties.

$212 hosting holiday parties.

$182 on clothing for yourself or your family that ISN’T a gift.

$124 on decorations.

And $110 on random other expenses.

That’s a total of $1,463 . . . so only one-third is going toward gifts.

And that total doesn’t include things you buy for yourself. Half of people say they plan on getting themselves a gift or two while they’re shopping.

Yahoo Finance

Kids are unbelievably good at stalling when you’re trying to put them to bed.

A new survey by Netflix found the average kid manages to get 19 minutes and 18 seconds of more time after their parents start trying to put them to bed. That’s almost two full minutes more than the average kid in other countries.

66% of kids in the U.S. use stalling methods to stay awake longer, versus 61% of kids elsewhere. Here are their top seven techniques . . .

1. Negotiating to stay up longer, which kills time in the process.

2. Saying they’re so hungry or thirsty.

3. Flattering you.

4. Moving as slowly as possible.

5. Trying to trick you into letting them stay up.

6. Pretending they forgot it’s time to go to bed

7. Getting naked in protest.

The National Wildlife Federation just gave your teenager the perfect excuse to not rake the leaves in your yard this year. Apparently it kills the environment.

They posted an article on their website in September called “Why You Should Leave the Leaves”. And now it’s going viral.

Basically, leaves create mini ecosystems, and they’re used as shelter, food, and nesting material for things like birds, chipmunks, and butterflies.

Also, roughly 33 million tons of leaves and other debris from yards end up in landfills each year. And when they’re bagged up, they don’t get enough oxygen to decompose, and the methane they create contributes to climate change.

Not raking them up can kill your grass though. So if you’re worried about your yard, they say to turn them into compost, or go over them with a mulching mower so they’ll be absorbed back into the soil.

You’d still effectively be rendering helpless chipmunks and butterflies homeless that way though. So another suggestion they came up with is to use them with sticks to build shelters for small animals to live in.

Going out to lunch might be the only thing that keeps you sane at work. But you’d save a lot of money if you started bringing your food . . . or stealing other people’s lunches.

A new survey by Visa found that the average person spends $11 when they go out for lunch. That’s $55 a week . . . and more than $2,500 a year.

And people who bring their lunch to work spend $6.30 a day. That would save $23.50 a week, and at least $1,100 a year.

The average person goes out to lunch twice a week, and packs something or eats at home the rest of the week.

The survey also found men are more likely to go out to lunch than women, and spend about 60% more on their food.

And finally, 1% of people spend an average of $50 a DAY on lunch.

If you hate your job, look on the bright side: It’s only destroying your soul, not your body. That counts as a “bright side,” right?

A new study just ranked the unhealthiest jobs in America. It’s based on factors like exposure to diseases and radiation . . . risk of minor and major injuries . . . and how much time you spend sitting. Here’s the top 10 . . .

1. Dentists and dental hygienists.

2. Flight attendants.

3. Anesthesiologists.

4. Veterinarians.

5. Podiatrists.

6. Immigration and customs inspectors.

7. Histotechnologists. They take tissue samples from diseased people and animals, and prepare them for analysis.

8. Water and waste water treatment plant workers.

9. Stationary engineers and boiler operators.

10. Surgical assistants.

Check out the top 25 here

According to a survey by CouponCabin, two thirds of us would keep living frugally if we won the lottery.

–72% of Americans would take their jackpot in one lump sum instead of annual payments.

–Here’s how a big jackpot would NOT change our lives:

–55% of us would keep using coupons.

–53% would keep shopping at the Dollar Store or other discount stores.

–51% would make sure to buy items when they’re on sale.

–36% of us would keep working at the same job.

The survey didn’t specify how BIG the hypothetical lottery jackpot was, though. And obviously that would influence whether you’d stay at your crappy job or not.)

A shoplifter in Australia recently tried to run out of a store, and ran straight into a revolving glass door instead.  She hit it hard enough to crack the glass, but got right back up and ran out, and police are still looking for her.

This story is for everyone who’s slipped up in public and called their significant other by the pet name you use at home . . . and then been mocked for it. Everyone else is using pet names, too. They’re just more careful about it.

A new survey found the 10 most popular pet names couples use for each other.

Check ’em out . . .

#1.) Darling.

#2.) Babe/Baby.

#3.) Love.

#4.) Sweetheart.

#5.) Gorgeous.

#6.) Honey/Hon/Honeybunch.

#7.) Sweetie/Sweets.

#8.) Angel.

#9.) Sugar/Sugarplum.

#10.) Boo.

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