Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Budgeting, Happiness, Money and Relationships on Feb 18th, 2008
M and I have gotten really good at planning our dinners for the week ahead of time and buying groceries on Sunday to have everything ready to make when we get home.
After work we get home, make dinner, clean up the dishes, and sit down to chill out/hang out. The problem is, some nights we [...]
Slate makes a good point in this article about what people are going to do with their rebate checks. I guess people are saying that they will be saving that money or using it on essential items. The experts (and history) beg to differ with that one—most Americans will treat like free money and blow [...]
Posted in Advertising, Blogging on Feb 16th, 2008
I wrote before about why I placed an ING Direct ad inside the text of my content about a month ago: I really believe that it’s the first step in taking control of your finances. I wanted to place and ad there because there’s no way a reader can ignore it—it’s primo space. But no [...]
Sun has a nice post discussing the importance of direct deposit. Direct deposit isn’t a must when it comes to keeping a budget and saving money, but it sure makes it a lot easier.
One of the first tenets you’ll hear repeated over and over in personal finance is “make it automatic.” That means setting up [...]
Posted in Happiness, Money and Relationships on Feb 14th, 2008
I’ve done them both and this year I’m aiming for something in between as M and I celebrate our third V-day together.
V-Day #1: Is it the good one or the bad one?
It was our first one together and we had sort of decided that we weren’t going to do a big to do for it—I [...]
I ran across this article on Yahoo! Finance the other day and it got me thinking about how I “grade” on each of these qualities. So lets run down the ten of them and see how well (or badly) I fare:
Patience: I love reading articles about retirement, so this is a good indicator that I’m [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books on Feb 12th, 2008
How I got here: I saw it on a few “best of 2007″ lists plus I also read and enjoyed the first two books in the “trilogy:” The Sportswriter and Independence Day.
When I saw that Ford was releasing another book to continue the saga of Frank Bascombe, I knew I would be reading it. I [...]
Posted in Happiness on Feb 12th, 2008
A recent study shows that people are willing to spend more on a given product when they are sad and focused on themselves. From the study:
Sadness leads people to become more focused on themselves, causing the person to feel that they and their possessions are worth little. That feeling increases willingness to pay more—presumably to [...]
I’ve linked to a few of Ramit’s posts before and he’s on my blogroll, but the other day it hit me: his blog is really good. It came out of nowhere and it made me take a closer look to see what it is about his blog that makes me like it so much.
First of [...]
Posted in Budgeting, Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2008
Here’s a good article from a while back that I really like. Here’s what the article is about:
This article is not about how to fake being an expert, so it’s not some quick, easy thing you can do and then be way better at something tomorrow. It’s about actually becoming an expert, which will take [...]
The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
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