How much money do you spend on your hair? Are you worth it? The woman on the hair-dye commercial says, with great certainty (that annoys me for some reason) that she’s worth it, but I wanted to find out if I am. Curious, I walked into my bathroom to get an accurate picture of how [...]
When people think about saving money or personal finances in general, they usually don’t think beyond their paycheck. There are a number of additional ways your employer can help you save and create wealth beyond payday. Here are ten ways (in no particular order) your company may be able to help increase your bottom line. [...]
This is one of the anonymous confessions that I have collected over the past few months that I thought was worth sharing. This is confession number 42 in the series: “I still can’t forgive my parents for spending my inheritance to travel the world.” Other confession already listed: The First 25 Confessions Shopping Taxes College [...]
Clutter is not evil, though many of the articles, books, television shows, and services that teach you how to organize suggest otherwise. Clutter can be good or bad, depending on how you use it and respond to it. Some people think more clearly and produce better work when they are in clear, open spaces without [...]
For the past few months I have been collecting money confessions from people at some of the talks that I give. They anonymously write their confession on a piece of paper. Each day I choose one that I find interesting and I believe is worth sharing. This is confession number 41 in the series: “I [...]
Newspapers are handy inventions. They are delivered to our door once a day, whether we want it today or not. They are at every grocery store, en masse. Wrinkle and shake one open, and you can find all sorts of gift ideas for your sweetie, or mom, or kid (or self). You can find coupons [...]
This is part of a series of money confessions that I have been collecting. Each day I choose one of the more interesting of these confessions to share with you. This is confession number 40 in the series: “I’m 28 and I live at home with my parents so I don’t have to get a [...]
In his best-selling financial book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki advises that in order to have a successful, rewarding life and ultimately to create wealth, we must first work to learn, not to earn. In my schizophrenically varied work life, I have followed my curiosity, whims and blind dumb luck through doors of [...]
I have been collecting money confessions. At the end of talks I have been giving, I asked the audience members to anonymously write down a money confession they have not revealed before. I have chosen some of the more interesting ones to share with you. This is confession number 39 in the series: “When I [...]
The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen: “This is part three of my explanation of how America went from having the fastest and cheapest Internet service in the world to what we have today — not very fast, not very cheap Internet service that is hurting our ability to compete economically with the [...]
