Did you know that usury was actually illegal at one point? My son is charging interest... to his coworkers... like a payday loan. That's better than anything I could make in the market. According to wikipedia, back in the day (and we're talking another century): Moneylending during this period was largely a matter of private loans advanced to ...
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I gave at the (tax) office…
We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes... ~ Leona Helmsley - hotelier and crazy narcissist... Taxes are the higher-earning frugal employee's nightmare. Spending can be controlled in every category except for taxes when you're an employee. If I were to stay working at my contract job for a full year - ...
Stuff I read this week
Best site for looking and drooling at other people's renovation projects: thsgardenweb Lots of investing tools can be found here: Drip Investing Allocation for dividend growth investors over at Seeking Alpha. The British Psychology Society's article on Thinking about our hourly wage stops us from smelling the roses. The College Payoff - in depth ...
Waiting for Godot… and kids to grow up…
Welcome New York Times readers! For regular readers, here's the NYT article that talks about the Person Under the Stairs (aka my son who lives in the basement): Rules for When Your Child Moves Home Here's the stages of learning myself and my kid had to go through to learn about money since it wasn't ...
The curse of high expectations
My friend Mel has a very full life. She runs a great homeschooling blog, has written a novel, homeschools SIX! kids, has a great marriage, a great body and loads of friends that she spends a lot of time with. Every day we use the site idonethis.com to write to each other ...
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
My son's friends are frustrating me. Some borrow money - and don't pay it back. Some let him pay for them whenever they go somewhere. I admire his generosity, but... Most are just actively trying to talk him out of pursuing his goals - to work less and save less. I don't get it. Your 20's is when ...
59 Seconds to Financial Goals
I've enjoyed every one of Richard Wiseman's books - the latest being 59 Seconds. There's so much nonsense advice handed out in the self-help world nowadays (and it's been made worse by *some* bloggers IMO), it drives me crazy. Books like 59 Seconds or research-based blogs like PsyBlog (who has had a