This is what I do, and I do suggest it. Sadly many websites have pretty shit proprietary password logic which makes me concerned for their overall security, such as "No special characters" or "Between 8 and 16 characters", or the dreaded "At least 1 capital letter, one number, and 1 special character". I get what they're going for, but it creates a need for layman users to create memorable passwords which incorporate forced "security" logic and leads to passwords like "!Password1", which is incredibly easy to crack.
Where I can help it, most of my passwords look something like this:
hfqN!niKHP@zRE9Gg3a79NhF6oQzNPASB9y&@NbB