Chris Blizzard introduced me to Clay Johnson. I had such an interesting time talking to him about social networking, free and open source software, governments and fundraising that I asked if he’d share some of his points in a blog interview. Meet Clay Johnson, Director of Sunlight Labs! Hi Clay, you have a lot of […]
Should you ask developers for money? And other interesting fundraising dilemnas. Read More »
I don’t usually blog about books I don’t like but I thought I could save people some time – don’t bother with The Complete Guide to Offshore Money Havens. I was in the library looking at finance books (like the rest of the world) and I ran across it. As I had a two year
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There’s an interesting blog post over on freemoneyfinance that is asking two serious financial questions: How much did you get for an allowance as a kid? How much did the tooth fairy leave you? I answered: I got $1/week allowance starting around first grade and $1/tooth from the tooth fairy. My seven year old stepson
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I have two credit cards from the same bank and I noticed that they were almost all the same number. That seemed strange to me since I got them at very different times. Turns out that you can tell a lot just from your credit card number. For example, the first number tells you what
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I keep pointing out how cheap things are these days and how much we have. Most people look at me like I’m crazy and then try to point out how expensive things are. Really, you can eat out for an hour’s worth of work at minimum wage. Groceries are even cheaper, if you buy the
I saw an interesting way to think about money in Steve Pavlina’s post The Abundance Mindset: Remember that money is social debt. The size of your bank account is a measure of how much society owes you for the value you’ve already contributed. He’s not saying money is the only type of social debt, he’s
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This guy won $5 million dollars and is now living off social security! His problem? Bad investment advice. It sounds like he might have a case although he probably should have gotten multiple opinions! He was getting $98000 a year when an investment company convinced him to: sell the future annual payments off to a
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Money is not evil. Having money is not wrong. Spending money is not wrong. Steve Olson has a great post about Why People Believe Money is the Root of all Evil – both Steve Olson and Steve Pavlina take that one step further and explain why if you think money is evil you will never
"Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator." – Peter Lynch
Spending cash does help you to spend less money than when you pay with credit. Numerous personal finance experts claim that spending strictly cash will not only help keep you on a budget but will also help you spend less. The problem I have is that I hate spending cash. As a 11 year old
Cash or Charge? How to spend less money. Read More »