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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.
Like any good independently owned store, [...]
Tags: happiness · money psychology · Venn diagram
I have just joined a time bank. In exchange for the hours I deposit offering, say, editing services or making ice cream, I will withdraw an equal number of hours in (I hope) yard work.
The bank is called Hour Dollars, and they’re up to around 100 members — probably at least 20 or so more [...]
Tags: alternative economy · frugal hack · Hour Dollars · time bank
For this spender, there is one real turn-on about saving, called the time value of money. This is the amount of time it takes for invested funds to double (triple, quadruple, etc.), based on the interest rate. The earlier you start, the bigger the payoff.
But there’s another time value that is currently winning around here, [...]
Tags: behavioral economics · convenience · Ticketmaster · time value
