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 'Time Value of Money'
Happiness is a Warm Sparkler: Where Spending Overlaps Joy
July 3rd, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: happiness · money psychology · Venn diagram
Cash Poor? Try a Time Bank
May 18th, 2009 7 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: alternative economy · frugal hack · Hour Dollars · time bank
Time Value Vs. My Valuable Time
August 26th, 2008 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: behavioral economics · convenience · Ticketmaster · time value
