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January, 2007

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Food and personal finance are similar (part 2)

Earlier this month, I wrote how food and personal finance are similar. Now check out a few excerpts from yesterday’s New York Times Magazine article on nutrition, which also has lots of parallels to money:
Humans deciding what to eat without expert help — something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out [...]

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I’m hiring for iwillteachyoutoberich (multiple positions)

I want to do a bunch of new stuff for iwillteachyoutoberich this year–some that I’ve announced, some that I haven’t–and I’m looking to bring on a few experts to help. If you’re interested in contributing to this site (and helping me spread the word about personal finance and personal entrepreneurship), take a look below. I’m [...]

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Free professional personal-finance advice today only

J.D. at Get Rich Slowly (a great personal-finance blog), writes:
This Friday, January 26th, you can receive free, professional retirement advice by phone courtesy of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance:
Get free, personalized answers to your financial questions. For the fifth time, we are joining with the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) to sponsor Kiplinger’s Jump-Start Your [...]

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Conscious spending: How my friend spends $21,000/year on going out

A few weeks ago, a couple of friends and I were talking about where we want to travel this year, and one of them said something that surprised me. “You probably wouldn’t approve, but I want to go to the Caribbean this year.”
Huh? Why wouldn’t I approve?
I thought about this in a pensive stare for [...]

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Tomorrow I’m going to tell you 4 stories

Tomorrow I’m going to tell you 3 stories about friends of mine and one about me. We’re all recent college grads.

The shoe lover. One of them spends over $5,000/year on shoes

The partier. Another spends over $400/week going out (that’s about $21,000/year)

The subscription nut. And the third friend has a Tivo subscription, Rhapsody subscription, cable/Internet [...]

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A lot of people want to be rich and I am revolted/happy

From the New York Times:
According to the Census Bureau’s 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States, most college freshmen in 1970 said their primary goal was to develop a meaningful life philosophy. In 2005, by contrast, most freshmen said their primary goal was to be comfortably rich.
Well, on one hand that makes me disgusted, but [...]

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