As any college student knows, using cliche based material in a drinking game is a great excuse to get drunk, and what better way to find cliches than reading about lifestyle design, since these days pretty much every lifestyle is a design except of course those icky conventional ones that we are all trying to [...]
The bill-paying lifestyle
Published in June 27th, 2011
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Does money only exist to be spent?
Published in June 26th, 2011
I just stumbled on an interesting post over at Moneymonk with a title suggesting that money only exists to be spent. I disagree. I think money also serves to delineate the wealthy from the broke. To reiterate the definitions: wealthy means having having enough money to buy everything you want (I’m wealthy), broke means not [...]
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