Tag: personal finance
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The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Song Lyrics
Tonight’s the night Let’s live it up I got my money Let’s spend it up Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling Ahhh, so tonight is the night. Good thing you told me, I thought tomorrow was the night. Wait, what are we going to do tomorrow if we spend all the money tonight?
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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.
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College Degrees and Varying Degrees of Worthlessness
Yup, college is expensive. Yup, expensive endeavors are not to be taken lightly, especially by the non-loaded. There are many college degrees that some people would consider worthless. I submit that a great deal of the value derived from a college degree has nothing to do with the concentration/focus/major.
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Boredom & Spending
As the old saying goes: Familiarity breeds contempt (of people). There is, however, a lesser known variation of this famous phrase (lesser known because I just made it up, feel free to spread it around): Familiarity breeds boredom (of stuff). Boredom can have many negative side effects: dizziness, weight gain, whining, grumpiness, and, perhaps most…