I use small barriers to avoid kooks

The weird thing about getting a little publicity is that you start to get kooks coming out of the woodwork. People write wanting to “collaborate” on something but mostly they just want to get popular without working. The conferences you go to have lots of “independent consultants” offering advice but they are really just unemployed. [...]

Let’s mock Ramit

Lots of people have bookmarked IWillTeachYouToBeRich on del.icio.us, the social-bookmarking site (What’s del.icio.us?). While there are lots of nice comments (”Great blog for personal finance and investing,” etc), there are some smartasses on del.icio.us. Check out their descriptions HAHA:
“some asshole Stanford graduate writing about how he’s better with money than you are”
“To-the-point budget advice from [...]

I seriously love this

My brother just sent this to me: Chompz In-N-Out Delivery

An In-N-Out delivery service for Stanford students!
Why’d they do it?
We’re seniors. We’re bored. It’s around that time to hunt for jobs, and, well, that takes time and effort. So we decided to bring In-N-Out burgers to campus.
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We probably won’t make much, if anything, from this [...]

Really bad feedback I have received

“We love your site but the name ‘I Will Teach You To Be Rich’ is over the top. If you were to change it, we would be happy to fly you out to speak at our company.”
(ATTENTION LUMBERING CORPORATIONS: I REALLY LIKE THE NAME OF THIS SITE AND IT’S NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANY TIME [...]

Use this whenever you call customer service

A while back, I wrote about how I kept records of every call with customer-service reps from Sprint. This is because they repeatedly “forgot” and lied about agreements we made.
One of my friends (who wants to remain anonymous) sent over this spreadsheet he uses to do the same thing:
I just started doing the same [...]

You spend even when you don’t

A couple of weeks ago, I went the entire week without spending one cent. I was really proud of myself. But then I realized that even when you don’t spend money, you really do. With car payments, rent, food, gas, etc, you probably spent over $60 today–even if you didn’t take your wallet out once. [...]