I wasn’t big on cars and other toys when I was in my late teens and early twenties. I read a few articles of Amy Dacyczyn’s The Complete Tightwad Gazette and decided that being frugal was cool. Being frugal was the environmental thing to do to boot. Joe Dominguez and Vicki [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Lessons on Money and Life Style From the Kids
April 30, 2007Pigeons
April 30, 2007I can usually find about five pigeons outside my house; they fly around from roof to roof and gently wake the neighborhood up with pleasant coos. I have never seen more than five pigeons though.
San Francisco, on the other hand, has pigeons a plenty. When my dog, Valor, was a puppy, he was [...]
Gazingas Pins
April 23, 2007A long time ago I read Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robins and Joe Dominguez. This is an excellent book that makes you think about what you really need, what’s important, and how to achieve Financial Independence (FI). I liked the book so [...]
Progression of Chemicals
April 20, 2007Hygiene was pretty easy as a small child. I’d take a bath, wash off the soap and shampoo, dry off, and put on my jammies. Chemicals=2. (Technically, water’s a chemical too, so the count should be 3, but I don’t want to count water.) After a few years of torture having [...]
