Category: spending

First The Latte Factor, Now The Coffee Factor 28

spending

First The Latte Factor, Now The Coffee Factor

Recently a short video from Suze Orman created a bit of a controversy on social media.  Granted everything is a controversy on social media these days, but I found this one particularly interesting. Orman recorded a short video called “how...

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spending

Are Renting And Sharing The New Owning?

My lawnmower was manufactured when Ronald Reagan was still in his first term.  My grandmother bought it new and I inherited it after she passed, and I’m still using it today.  It’s literally cut hundreds of millions of blades of...

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psychology / spending

Money Lessons From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Day will be celebrated this coming Monday in America.  It’s a federal government holiday, so I’ll be off.  As a semi-retired and semi-quasi-professional blogger and graphic artist, I wasn’t planning on working anyway. Sadly, many companies in...

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miscellaneous / spending

How Capitalism Saves You Money

When Uber first came on the scene I largely ignored them.  I thought the idea was great, one of those “Why didn’t I think of that” ideas that’s both simple and revolutionary.  I love seeing industries get disrupted, especially old...

Camelcamelcamel Site Review 34

spending

Camelcamelcamel Site Review

Like many, I do quite a bit of my shopping on Amazon.  It’s getting more difficult to ignore the juggernaut of online shopping as time goes on.  They’re reliable, have virtually everything, and make shopping quick and easy.  They also...

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spending

How I Smartphone

We’re now accustomed to having a device on us at all times that’s amazingly small and that can access most of the entire corpus of human knowledge.  Usually in a couple seconds.  Sometimes it still blows my mind when I...

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spending

Yes Frugality Matters, Stop The Nonsense

I’ve seen a lot of chatter and complaints in the blogosphere recently about frugality.  “Everyone writes about spending less” and “spending less isn’t really the most important factor, it’s about earning more”.  Or “Frugality is oversold in regards to financial...

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spending

How Big Box Stores Can Cost You More

It’s undeniable that mega stores like Walmart, Target, and Sam’s Club have lower prices.  They can pressure suppliers to bring prices down from a volume perspective, then they pass those cost savings onto the customer.  Simple economics.  But these stores...

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