The Writer’s Coin

I’m 26 years old now and I’m constantly looking back to my time in college thinking of how I would’ve done things differently. Reading things like this post show me how I really could’ve done things in a more practical, efficient way (I majored in Communications and Philosophy (I know, ouch)).
Back then I didn’t really [...]

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It’s a very exciting move for The Writer’s Coin and I hope it’s the beginning of a long stretch of great posts, good commentary, and more discoveries.
If you have any suggestions or gripes (like the ads) please comment on them or drop me an email.
Thanks!
WC

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I’ve written before about the way routines make it easier to stick to your budget because you do the math beforehand and then lay out your week in terms of expenses (mostly the post was about food and groceries). Then you just follow the map you set for yourself. Yes, it can be boring, but [...]

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Even though this blog is not super old I still felt like I wanted to post my favorite posts so far. Even though some of them didn’t get that much traffic, I still really like these.

Keeping your budget with a routine: On Creativity
Focus on the details: Mr. Beane
On Black Friday
The importance of rewriting
All the Money [...]

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I’m kind of embarrassed to admit it, but I finally got one.
I had debated the impulse to follow through and try to get one, since they are impossible to find, but last Saturday M and I went to see a movie. Afterwards, I casually mentioned that I’d like to go to Gamestop and just ask [...]

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I’m intrigued by Obama—he may or may not be the president I’ve been wanting for a long time. Maybe.
But even if he isn’t, if this whole honesty and change bit of his is just that, a bit, then at least he’s the first one to really make me believe it.
In the piece, the crux of [...]

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Cash Money Life is having a giveaway for those that participate by posting their 2008 financial resolution in the SMART Goal Format.
Here is my resolution and how I intend to accomplish it:
I will add $10,000 to my down-payment fund in 2008
* Specific - I’m going to expand my alternative income by freelancing more often [...]

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I totally stole this from An English Major’s Money post from a couple days ago. In it, she talks about how she wants a new Ipod and a new digital camera and then she gives her answer to the problem. In other words, what she’ll do instead of giving into the impulse.
The Gimmes: An illogical, [...]

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Trent’s post over at The Simple Dollar has me thinking about Alma maters and of my own school’s money-collecting ways.
I hadn’t even graduated yet and already they were sending me things in the mail about how important it was to give back to the school, that tuition only covered a small part of a University’s [...]

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I love reading interviews with authors that I have recently read or like so much I’ll read whatever they come out with.
These are some of my favorite (they are old but really insightful):
- David Foster Wallace on the Charlie Rose show. DFW also at Salon.
- George Saunders interviewed at Bookslut.
- Salvador Plascencia (the author of [...]

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