This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert

Brokamp, personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. He's also the advisor on Motley

Fool's Rule Year Retirement newsletter. Such a great newsletter.

Well, thank you very much, Allison.

It's the holidays. That special time of year where we don't festive sweaters and get stressed

out, drunk, and a little more chubby.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

The Motley Fool's Chief Wellness Officer joins us with five ways to maintain and not gain

over the holidays.

We'll also answer your question about creating a portfolio of bonds. A special type of bond fund. That's what we're going to talk about here.

I know. I know you're excited. I know. Allison is falling asleep, everyone out there in podcast land.

Well, I mean, obviously we got a question about it, so it matters to someone.

It just doesn't matter to me.

And I am just naturally predisposed to just kind of fall asleep whenever the word

bond.

It's like the Manchurian candidate where I hear the word bond and it's just like, boom, she

falls asleep rather than like activates and tries to assassinate someone.

Yes, well that's good.

I prefer that you fall asleep rather than the other one,

since I'm the only one in this room with you right now.

Maybe there is a word out there.

You've got to be careful with what you say.

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