Trees, Dieting, and Investing

It's quite common to try to stump people with the old "Where do trees get most of their mass?"

But I only recently realized that when we lose weight, we lose weight the exact same "weigh":

CO2  >  O2

That's it, you lose those 10 pounds one atom at a time on the exhale just like trees get taller and thicker one atom at a time taking in the very carbon you're breathing out.

I've known the basic chemistry facts my entire life and yet the first time someone asked me these questions:
"Where do trees get their mass?"
and
"Where does the weight you lose go?"

I thought and answered other (dumb) things: "From their roots", "In your poop"

Goes to show, knowing stuff doesn't mean you really understand stuff!

Chalk another one up to the power of small things done regularly leading to big changes.

Isn't that the basic advice of investing and saving money? (put a dollar a day into the stock market and you will have about 600K in 50 years!)

So, take a deep breath, plant some trees, and start saving some money!