The Spend Nothing Game

Don’t Try And Remember, Check

04.26.2011 GTD

What was I suppose to remember to bring home? Milk, dry-cleaning, leaf bags? I hate that feeling, standing in the grocery store, racking my brain, trying to remember some key ingredient I know that I’m missing. Or when I’m down in the basement — what was I supposed to bring up, put away, and check on? [...]

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Living It Up: Why We Play The Spend Nothing Game

04.21.2011 Business

It may sound backwards, but we play the Spend Nothing Game so we can spend a lot of money on some special things. In just a few weeks my wife Diane and I are taking our youngest daughter to the UK for a long-promised trip. She’s graduating from high school and we wanted to help [...]

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A Spend Nothing Game Black Friday Plan

11.24.2010 The Spend Nothing Game

Here in the good old US of A they call the Friday that follows Thanksgiving, “Black Friday.” Why? Because it’s the day that retailers hope to turn their year profitable, from red to black. And to do that they try and create a frantic rush to their stores with what many think are amazing bargains. [...]

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Makers: The New Amish

11.16.2010 Future

I recently read the iFixit Repair Manifesto. It was inspired by the Maker’s Bill of Rights. Both of these documents and the movements that embrace them have me very conflicted. I applaud most of what both claim and aspire to. I love tinkering with things and people who can build and create from existing products [...]

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Simple, Free, And No Excuses

11.10.2010 blogging

Did you ever think to yourself, “If only I had the money I could start a terrific business?” Instead of business you could substitute art project, write a novel, or whatever else you can think of in there. But you don’t have the money, so that’s your excuse to not even try to make your [...]

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