Be Kind, Make People Laugh, Save Money
A couple of weeks ago I was packing my duffle for a day of climbing on the local crag. I noticed one of my ropes was getting frayed. As a frugal weirdo I almost always use things until they die...
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Study: Having $2 Million Does Not Make You Wealthy
Charles Schwab recently released its annual modern wealth survey and the results are more interesting than ever. The study is an annual examination of how 1,000 Americans between the ages of 21 and 75 think about saving, spending, investing, and...
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...
Is Saving Money Your Lifestyle Or A Task?
To get to financial independence, you have to save money. There’s no way around it. Even if you become famous and wind up having money pouring out your kitchen faucets, if you don’t save you’re not going to make it...
Here’s To Stand Up Companies, Fixing Things, And Saving Money
As I mentioned in a previous post, I buy stuff deliberately and carefully. By that I mean that I put some analysis into it. I try not to over-analyze, but there are databases of reviews online and the ability to check...
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...
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...
Are Stagnant Middle Class Wages a Myth?
*Note – I wrote this post just before the Census Bureau released the official 2017 Median Household Income Numbers. I may update these numbers in the future to reflect the 2017 data. You can find my post on the new...
It Might Be A Good Time To Rent
I’ve written before about the affordability gap to housing in the U.S., breaking it down by state. Well things don’t seem to be getting easier for Americans in regards to buying an affordable home. Bloomberg has reported that Americans are...
Larry Ellison Recalls The Glory Days Of $800,000 Club Dues
LOS ANGELES – “This is starting to be outrageous”, said Larry Ellison, upon being notified of another increase in his country club dues. The new rate – $1.8 million per year. “I mean, okay, I get inflation, but they don’t...
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