Need to cut down on eating out? Going out?
Here’s how I do it (this is from an upcoming lifehacking movie):
I cover this in more detail in tip #1 of The Scrooge Strategy, where I show you exactly how to implement what I call “The Two-Headed Savings Approach.” Here’s a preview of the 1,095-word tip:
Two comments had a great back-and-forth on this post (”What would you tell the 30-year-old divorcee with 30k of debt?”):
Danielle: “Uhhh I’d tell them life isnt so bad. Im 23, attached and have 85k in school loans and I cant get a job more than 14 bucks an hour. Whats my advice?”
Boomer: “Danielle – Get [...]
Guys, I don’t usually talk about my other blog, a comedy blog called “Things I Hate” (which I haven’t updated since July 2006). For some reason, I still get ~5 emails/week about it.
I started the blog when I was a disaffected college student, during which time I wrote hundreds of bitter blog entries about, [...]
I was checking out this forum post on the iwillteachyoutoberich forums and thought it was really interesting:
What do you do for a living?
“I’m a student. For making money, I do the following:
- Part-time as a web designer for my school’s student government. (5 hours/week)
- Work at my school’s book-store. (20-25 hr/week)
- Donate plasma. (6-8 hr/week)
- [...]
If you’re coming here from today’s AP story, or you’ve been reading a long time, here are some of my favorite recent posts that you may have missed:
How I’m saving $25,000 in 2009. What to do when you make major purchases, keeping account information in one place, negotiating down service providers (cable, cellphone) once per [...]
I talk to my friend Ben Casnocha (who wrote My Startup Life) a few times every week. About a month ago, he came up with a great idea: to record our conversation so, maybe, other people could get something valuable out of it.
Here’s our first try. Imagine a pilot episode — it’s not completely smooth, [...]