Category: Living
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Tools for Teaching Kids About Money
I don’t remember how to play piano (short attention span). Those tennis lessons sure didn’t stick (minimal upper-body strength). But I’ve sure found some of the lessons my parents taught me about money management invaluable (but if I had to tag a number on it, I’d say around $1 billion). Here are some ideas for…
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3 Reasons Why We Keep & Buy Crap
After helping my parents clean out their closets, drawers, cabinets, etc. this week, I’ve developed some theories on why we keep crap and, even more importantly, why we buy it in the first place.
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I Get Less Done When I Have Nothing to Do
The law of inertia states that a body in motion will tend to remain in motion and that a body at rest will tend to remain sitting on her butt, reading cheesy romance novels. That’s just science.
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Who’s Keeping Track?
In school your teachers assigned you grades. At work the boss man monitors your output. Tell me, who’s tracking your financial performance?
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Spending Under Pressure
Pressure will make you do funny things with your money. It’ll make you give $20 to a fanny-pack-wearing-man in the park who only asked for $15 and who deserved about $0.
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Judge Not, Lest Nobody Like Ye
Everyone judges other people’s spending habits at one time or another, but eventually the shoe will be on the other foot. Today the shoe was on my foot; my newly pedicured foot. And it was smelly.