I have alluded in past posts to getting in over our heads in 2006 with a home equity loan. The loan was to cover getting the house painted and landscaping. That is pretty all true. But here’s what’s true(r): The landscaping part was mostly to get me to shut the hell up about the bleeping [...]
Entries Tagged as 'wealth'
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
Abundance That Has Nothing to Do with Cash
November 25th, 2008 4 Comments
This blog’s focus on money is not always good for my mental health. I realized that the other night when I had to sit down and write a monthly devotional study resource for our church, based on the readings and sermon for the week. I sat and considered abundance, and giving, and realized that I’ve [...]
Tags: A. J. Jacobs · Oprah · thankfulness · Thanksgiving · tithe
Do You Want What it Takes to be a Millionaire Today: Investing in Yourself
November 7th, 2008 1 Comment
Do you believe you can become a millionaire if you just work hard enough at it? Ninety-two percent of the great unwashed say yes, according to Middle-Class Millionaire authors Russ Alan Prince and Lews Schiff. Well and good, except then we leave it at that. Actual middle-class millionaires don’t believe they can do this alone. [...]
Do You Want What it Takes to Be a Millionaire Today: Seeing Opportunity
November 5th, 2008 No Comments
This may be hard to hear. Middle-class millionaires (according to the book of the same title) do not agree that if you do what you love, the money will follow. More than 73 percent chose a career because of its prospective financial rewards. But that doesn’t mean they’re walking around hating life. They just put [...]
Tags: match skills to opportunity · The Middle-Class Millionaire · think big
Do You Want What It Takes to be a Millionaire Today: Career First
October 31st, 2008 4 Comments
Thanks to The Sun’s Financial Diary for posting this at this week’s carnival of personal finance. Thomas Stanley’s “Millionaire Next Door” approach to building wealth is sane, simple, and basically foolproof if you’re consistent: Save, invest, and wait. There’s another path that, as a self-employed person, I find more provocative. Earlier this year, authors Russ [...]
Tags: career · financial independence · hobbies · Lewis Schiff · Russ Alan Prince · The Middle-Class Millionaire
Saving Is In Again: Thomas Stanley on the Glutton Economy
October 15th, 2008 4 Comments
Thanks to this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance at Budgets are $exy for pointing to this post. Have a minute? Check out the roundup there. I hope to highlight at least one post I loved later this week. Hemispheres, the United in-flight magazine, just published a short piece I wrote last spring about saving to [...]
Tags: Glutton Economy · Hemispheres · Hey big spender · The Millionaire Next Door · The Nobody Treatment · Thomas Stanley
What Do I Mean By Wealth?
September 2nd, 2008 No Comments
I put up a rough outline of our project on the main page, and I used the words “fabulous wealth” as our goal. But what do I mean by wealth? It’s one of those terms that’s relative and that has no ceiling — by U.S. standards we are middle class. By Third World standards we [...]
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