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By Marcus Flakes, MPH   What Does “Lifestyle” Even Mean? Lifestyle isn’t just about outfits, trends, or vacations. It’s the architecture of your daily life: your routines, your space, your habits, your values, and the systems that support them. In academic terms, lifestyle blends behavior (what we do), cognition (how we think), and context (our environment) [1]. Researchers also emphasize that lifestyle is best understood as a mix of activities and attitudes: Activities & Behaviors: Everything from consumption patterns, leisure activities, cooking and eating styles, child-rearing, home decorating, and home maintenance all the way to work itself. The lifestyle of a city commuter is vastly different from that of someone who works on a farm [1]. Values & Attitudes: Lifestyle is shaped by the values that influence those daily choices. What we eat, how we shop, how we spend our free time, and how we decorate our homes all tie back to und...

             The Hidden Cost of Mental Load and Why Pantri App Exists In my household, it always feels like an uphill battle deciding whose turn it is to cook, wash dishes, or tackle the laundry. And the one chore that always seems to slip through the cracks until “spring cleaning” rolls around is organization. Clutter builds up, and suddenly you’re spending an entire day dusting, reorganizing, and sorting through clothes you haven’t worn in years. By the end, you realize you never actually got to the cleaning itself—because what’s the point of scrubbing when the clutter is still in the way? I'm Marcus Flakes, Founder & CEO of Pantri App, Inc., a tech-enabled lifestyle marketplace, with a mission to reduce the burdens of household tasks, so you can focus on what truly matters, such as your marriage, business, children, family, travel, and much more. The Silent Weight of Mental Load When we think of household chores, it’s easy to picture laundr...