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Don’t Buy, Maintain! Winning the Spend Nothing Game At The Master Level

08.17.2010 The Spend Nothing Game

We went to the “Parade of Homes” recently. You probably have one in your area. This year’s was an impressive collection of eight or nine homes, beautifully decorated, and all around the million-dollar price tag. Normally I’m just along for the ride with my wife and daughter, but this time a couple of the homes [...]

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Cultivate Connoisseurship

08.11.2010 Art

Do you feel like you’re always behind with EVERYTHING? Do you find that you can never get through your list of tasks, and worse than that, all of those other things in life keep nagging at you? Do you feel like you’re under pressure because your TiVO or DVR is full of recorded shows that [...]

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Tech Buying Tip: Adopt An Early Adopter

07.20.2010 Business

If you want a new phone, computer, or gadget of any type, but you want to spend as little as possible, there’s one easy way to have access to great items at a fraction of the cost: become an enabler to a early adopter. You probably know one and probably kid them about their gadget [...]

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Spend Nothing Game – Solitaire Version

05.05.2010 Family

One of the secrets to success in reducing and eliminating unnecessary spending is honesty. You have to be completely aware of when you’re spending, what you’re spending it on, and why. This is tough stuff. It’s so easy to just let little things slip by: that cup of coffee at Starbucks, grabbing lunch at a [...]

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Living In A Sci-fi Future – Food and Eating

04.09.2010 Family

What does the future hold for food and eating? I think that the past might be the best indicator for that. Two movements that are just beginning to enter the public discussion are the topics of locally grown food and the reduction or elimination of the supply chain. I am not a gardener. I got [...]

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