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Crowd Funding Can Be Funny

This was just kind of odd as I stumbled upon this crowd funding project on Kickstarter as you can see here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad Okay, unless I am missing something it is literally just a person saying that they are going to make a potato salad where the funding goal was $10. Yet as you can see

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Financial Management

Making Yourself Dependent On Things That Are Too Cheap

I had a thought today as I saw all these services such as how you can get people to clean your yard or even do various jobs for so little money to the point where you say “why not?” A lot of these tasks require very little time as is. As a result, we simply

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Financial Management

The Renting Versus Owning A Home Debate

Today I noticed that some of my friends were referencing this site at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html?_r=0 where it essentially has a calculator to try and mathematically tell you if it makes more financial sense to rent or buy a home. From what I saw, it seemed like everyone that was using it in my social circle was

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Financial Management

Putting Other People’s Loans In Your Name

I heard this a few times this week where people who are desperately seeking personal and business loans try to find friends or family members to apply for the loans for them. Essentially, it puts all the risk on them as opposed to the person who is intending to use the money. Generally speaking, this

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Giving Your Wealth Away To Society

I was watching this Ted Talk video today about how Bill and Melinda Gates has essentially decided to give away their money to try and solve world issues through their foundation. You can watch the video here: Usually when I hear stories like these it really makes me think what I would do if I

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Paying It Forward Actions

I read some cool stories today of people who choose to giveaway their money in creative ways such as putting money in an envelope and randomly hiding it somewhere in the public.   Whoever finds it gets to keep it.  Essentially this is supposed to be a random act of kindness that will extremely lift the

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