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The $28,000 question: Why are we all hypocrites about weddings?

On Saturday night, I was out with some friends, including one who’s planning her wedding for next August. I’ve had a bunch of family weddings in the last few months, so I suggested she check out a nearby stationery store for her invitations. “It’s really expensive, like $14 per invitation. But at least you can [...]

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Chicken Little and Kooks Who Don’t Know What They’re Talking About

This post is long, but there are emails and comments from a bunch of nuts that I pasted, so don’t be intimidated. Today I threw all pedagogical goals out the window. My goal is instead to have you shaking your head saying “what the hell?” by the end of this.
See, every single day I [...]

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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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Set smaller goals: impress friends, get girls, lose weight

New readers: welcome! This is a blog on personal finance and personal entrepreneurship for college students, recent college grads, and everyone else. I’ve been writing for over 2 years and I have over 400 articles in my archive. After you read the post below, here’s a list of popular iwillteachyoutoberich posts and my RSS feed. [...]

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I Hate Indian Network Marketers So Much

I’m pissed off.
See, I live by a shopping center that has a Safeway, Trader Joe’s, and Wal-Mart. The last two times I’ve gone shopping there, I’ve been approached by Indian men who were seemingly very nice and struck up a conversation with me. (Some background: For a long time, there weren’t many Indians in the [...]

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An ode to Jim Blomo

Today I want to take a minute to write about my friend Jim. Here’s a guy who embodies what I talk about on this site: getting rich by identifying your priorities, being frugal on things you don’t care about and spending on the things you do, taking entrepreneurial risks, and realizing the difference between being [...]

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