Comments on: the shame and the glory http://www.bripblap.com/2009/the-shame-and-the-glory/ wealth, work and life success Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:17:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Slinky http://www.bripblap.com/2009/the-shame-and-the-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-29669 Slinky Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:42:34 +0000 http://www.bripblap.com/?p=1670#comment-29669 Great post! I've never understood people who save for the sake of saving. I save for the sake of doing the things I love, whatever those things may be. Personal finance isn't really about giving up nice things. It's about giving up the things that don't matter for the things that do. Great post! I've never understood people who save for the sake of saving. I save for the sake of doing the things I love, whatever those things may be. Personal finance isn't really about giving up nice things. It's about giving up the things that don't matter for the things that do.

]]> By: Slinky http://www.bripblap.com/2009/the-shame-and-the-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-28944 Slinky Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:42:34 +0000 http://www.bripblap.com/?p=1670#comment-28944 Great post! I've never understood people who save for the sake of saving. I save for the sake of doing the things I love, whatever those things may be. Personal finance isn't really about giving up nice things. It's about giving up the things that don't matter for the things that do. Great post! I've never understood people who save for the sake of saving. I save for the sake of doing the things I love, whatever those things may be. Personal finance isn't really about giving up nice things. It's about giving up the things that don't matter for the things that do.

]]> By: Personal Finance Links (Bandwagon Red Sox Fans are Free Now Edition) | acneadvocate.com http://www.bripblap.com/2009/the-shame-and-the-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-28708 Personal Finance Links (Bandwagon Red Sox Fans are Free Now Edition) | acneadvocate.com Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:13:39 +0000 http://www.bripblap.com/?p=1670#comment-28708 [...] Blap goes over the shame and the glory of frugal [...] [...] Blap goes over the shame and the glory of frugal [...]

]]> By: thesweetmagnolia.com » Blog Archive » Personal Finance Links (Bandwagon Red Sox Fans are Free Now Edition) http://www.bripblap.com/2009/the-shame-and-the-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-28704 thesweetmagnolia.com » Blog Archive » Personal Finance Links (Bandwagon Red Sox Fans are Free Now Edition) Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:40:12 +0000 http://www.bripblap.com/?p=1670#comment-28704 [...] Blap goes over the shame and the glory of frugal [...] [...] Blap goes over the shame and the glory of frugal [...]

]]> By: thesweetmagnolia.com » Blog Archive » Personal Finance Links (Bandwagon Red Sox Fans are Free Now Edition) http://www.bripblap.com/2009/the-shame-and-the-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-28705 thesweetmagnolia.com » Blog Archive » Personal Finance Links (Bandwagon Red Sox Fans are Free Now Edition) Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:40:12 +0000 http://www.bripblap.com/?p=1670#comment-28705 [...] Blap goes over the shame and the glory of frugal [...] [...] Blap goes over the shame and the glory of frugal [...]

]]> By: Overdraft_Savvy http://www.bripblap.com/2009/the-shame-and-the-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-28672 Overdraft_Savvy Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:55:43 +0000 http://www.bripblap.com/?p=1670#comment-28672 "You don’t save money so you can save more. You save money so you can spend it on things you value instead of things you don’t."<br><br>What a great quote. It's amazing how we always seem to be short on cash. And yet, if people just stopped spending on things that they didn't really make them happy, they would be a whole lot closer to reaching their financial goals, if not making them. <br><br>We should approach everything we spend on with a simple little cost-benefit analysis like this. “You don’t save money so you can save more. You save money so you can spend it on things you value instead of things you don’t.”

What a great quote. It's amazing how we always seem to be short on cash. And yet, if people just stopped spending on things that they didn't really make them happy, they would be a whole lot closer to reaching their financial goals, if not making them.

We should approach everything we spend on with a simple little cost-benefit analysis like this.

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]]> By: Weekly Links: 8/8/9 http://www.bripblap.com/2009/the-shame-and-the-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-28642 Weekly Links: 8/8/9 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:05:13 +0000 http://www.bripblap.com/?p=1670#comment-28642 [...] Brip Blap-The Shame and the Glory [...] [...] Brip Blap-The Shame and the Glory [...]

]]> By: Funny about Money http://www.bripblap.com/2009/the-shame-and-the-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-28643 Funny about Money Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:07:13 +0000 http://www.bripblap.com/?p=1670#comment-28643 Nice insight! There's a point where asceticism...well, has no point. Unless you're saving for some reason, denying yourself can morph into a kind of pathology.<br><br>Now...my feeling is that instead of keeping up with the Joneses, you should BE the Joneses. The trick is to do something everyone else wishes they'd done: do it first, and do it conspicuously.<br><br>Some years ago (quite a few somes), I took it upon my lush young girlish self to haul a shovel and a wheelbarrow into the front yard and work like a freaking horse to upgrade and renovate the landscape. Pretty quick, the guy across the street starts to fix up his yard. And then another house gets spruced up.<br><br>Guy Across Street to Lush Young Woman's Husband: "After seeing what you did, I felt like I had to keep up and do something to our house, too."<br><br>LOL! That neighborhood gentrified fast and is now one for the most irrationally overpriced in the city. ;-) Nice insight! There's a point where asceticism…well, has no point. Unless you're saving for some reason, denying yourself can morph into a kind of pathology.

Now…my feeling is that instead of keeping up with the Joneses, you should BE the Joneses. The trick is to do something everyone else wishes they'd done: do it first, and do it conspicuously.

Some years ago (quite a few somes), I took it upon my lush young girlish self to haul a shovel and a wheelbarrow into the front yard and work like a freaking horse to upgrade and renovate the landscape. Pretty quick, the guy across the street starts to fix up his yard. And then another house gets spruced up.

Guy Across Street to Lush Young Woman's Husband: “After seeing what you did, I felt like I had to keep up and do something to our house, too.”

LOL! That neighborhood gentrified fast and is now one for the most irrationally overpriced in the city. ;-)

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