#7. BeatingBroke brought up the idea of a self-imposed layaway plan. The idea is simple. Think ahead to all the expenses you know you’re going to incur in the next 6 months or a year. Then set aside a portion of the total cost from each paycheck until you have enough. This technique has worked [...]
Read more →#7. Bam! The Small Economies of Pleasure nails what frugality really is, how spendthrifts perceive frugality, and why the perception of frugality as suffering and deprivation is inaccurate. If you’re looking to improve your financial health and think a healthy dose of frugality is both necessary and scary, read this post. #6. Making little bets is a [...]
Read more →These are a few of the lessons I’ve learned from studying trading in the stock market over the last month. If I wait until everyone else is doing it, it’s too late to get on board. I can’t react based on what’s happening right now. I need to be aware of what’s going on around [...]
Read more →This is a guest post from Ann Evans. Ann writes about the changing roles of women in the 21st century. Her most recent work is titled The Abortion Wars and is available on Kindle eBooks. When I was under 40, a long time ago, I was digging through the couch for enough change to buy [...]
Read more →The subject of how to make some extra income without a lot of hassle is popular with personal finance bloggers. MobileWorks is building a web site (geeks would call it a “platform”) to make crowdsourcing easy and accessible for everyone. I think that MobileWorks is positioning themselves really well. How to accumulate enough people to [...]
Read more →There are no shortcuts. If you didn’t already know that, now you do. Now that we’re all on the same page, that still doesn’t tell you what you can do. And I’m glad to have read a recent post by Mark Cuban with his thoughts on how to become rich. If you don’t know who [...]
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