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Count your blessings?

He said: “I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake.

“Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood.”

Kevin - who has children Travis, 21, and Sosie, 19, with wife Kyra Sedgwick - says his bad experience with Madoff has taught him to count his blessings, and also be more aware of his own finances.

He added in an interview with The Sun newspaper: “When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, ‘We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work’. So don’t feel too sorry for the Bacons.”

- Kevin Bacon doesn’t understand ‘evil’ greed, Independent.co.uk, June 1, 2011.

2. If you feel underappreciated by your spouse, it may be because he or she isn’t getting enough sleep, a new study suggests.

Sleep deprivation can leave couples “too tired to say thanks” and may leave a partner feeling as if they are being taken for granted, according to the findings by University of California, Berkeley researchers.

More than 60 couples took part in each of two experiments. The participants ranged in age from 18 to 56. In one experiment, couples kept a diary of their sleep patterns and how the quality of their sleep affected their appreciation of their partner.

In the other experiment, couples were videotaped as they did problem-solving tasks. People who had slept poorly the previous night showed less appreciation for their partner, the investigators found.