Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
A team of psychologists may have discovered why money can’t buy happiness. Pictures of dollar bills, fantasies of wealth and wads of Monopoly money arouse feelings of self-sufficiency that result in selfish and often anti-social behavior, according to a study reported Friday in the journal Science. Read the entire article here
These videos are great. Pretty much sums up the way many people seem to think about finances. Thanks to Michael @ It’s Your Money for pointing me to these videos!
The latest carnival of personal finance is up over at “A Geek’s World”. Yikes. That’s a lot of entries! I can see why his fingers got tired. Go check it out: . I’ll be hosting the carnival next week. Let’s hope that there aren’t quite that many entries next week. I may have to outsource the carnival to a foreign land where labor is cheaper………
I love stumbling on to a good blog. I especially like blogs that put a sense of humor on an otherwise fairly mundane subject matter. Over at Adventure Money, Steve has put together a great blog post that spoofs the “Millionaires in the Making” series over at CNNMoney. I love the Millionaires series so I particularly enjoyed Steve’s spoof. Go check it out. I think
by: Adelle Magsombol
It’s a sad state of affairs when our national news organizations give so much coverage to a single wide living, uneducated, overhyped, talentless pop singer like Britney Spears during the national elections. Can’t they leave this kind of news to the entertainment shows? Better yet, just let it come out in the tabloids. And now they are asking questions like, “What’s next for Kfed, who’s
Have you checked out this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance? There are a TON of articles this week: http://citygirlsfinancialblog.blogspot.com/2006/11…
Just spreading the love a little here. This blog post is pretty darned good. I found that it gets better towards the end. I particularly enjoyed the statements about spending a weeks worth of salary on one pair of pants. SHE tries to explain to someone that rich people don’t do this, to which that person says, “Yes they do. I see them wearing this
I’d like to say I came up with all of these tips, but of course, I didn’t. Check out this list of 102 personal finance tips you professor never taught you. It’s a pretty decent list. Obviously, “Pay yourself First” is at the top of the list: http://www.yourcreditadvisor.com/blog/2006/10/102_…
Every now and then I wonder if I’m too much of a tightwad. I’ll confess that there are a few things I do to try to keep our costs down. In no particular order: Religiously turn off the lights (and usually turn on the CFL bulbs instead of regular light bulbs (We have some of each in the house due to preferences) Try to go
I read an article awhile back that talked about the new age of keeping up with the Jones’. Basically, the article stated that rather than trying to keep up with their neighbors, people were starting to try to keep up with what they see on TV. I can find no better example of this than what happened in our neighborhood recently. I was outside talking