Tagged: 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...
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...
The Cost Of Car Ownership By State
If you’ve spent time on my blog you probably know I’m not the biggest fan of driving and America’s obsession with cars. There’s the 40,000 deaths it causes every year (more than 100 every day…). There’s the smog and carbon...
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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