Image via Wikipedia Books & Memories is a secondhand book store in Syracuse, New York, with a terrible name and dead web site. 2600 James St Syracuse, NY 13206-2842 (315) 434-9268 But because visiting it made me enormously happy, I’ll describe it here, so that you may believe, despite the inability to click on it. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'money psychology'
Happiness is a Warm Sparkler: Where Spending Overlaps Joy
July 3rd, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: happiness · money psychology · Venn diagram
Mafia Wars Money Warps Hubby’s Perspective of Chump Change
June 15th, 2009 2 Comments
Thanks to my wife’s insistence, I joined Facebook a few months ago. After the initial shock and awe, I stumbled into an online game called Mafia Wars. It’s essentially a role-playing game reconfigured for social networking. You create your character, then ask your friends to join your mafia. The bigger your mafia, the more fights [...]
Tags: Mafia Wars · money psychology
Budget Buzz: Getting Over ‘I Don’t Know’
May 5th, 2009 4 Comments
Budgeting gets a bad rap as a giant drag. If you’re not someone who’s inherently organized, as I’m not, first thinking about the process feels like trying to corral the very air. “Money? I don’t know, I just, you know, wing it.” But winging it always left me uneasy. I’d think, “I must be overspending. [...]
Tags: Budgeting · money psychology
Well That Was Fun: Spending’s Hit of Joy
April 1st, 2009 4 Comments
I have a vivid memory of standing with my mom in her bedroom as she went through her closet, bemoaning that she had nothing to wear. I was probably 4 or so. I didn’t understand what she meant — there were clothes everywhere. Now she is me. My own closet is full of vintage dresses [...]
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The Money See-Saw: Trending Up?
March 31st, 2009 No Comments
Image by Roby72© via Flickr 2,160. That’s the estimated number of times the word “money” turns up in the 360-page novel Money, by Martin Amis. And the word never loses its thrill. What was narrator John Self thinking or feeling about money right now? What would happen — good or bad — because money was [...]
Tags: Martin Amis · money psychology · Steve Almond
