consumerism

We all want a better life for our children.  The evidence for this is everywhere and often makes its way into advertising campaigns of all varieties.  Where I live in California we have commercials about saving our children from energy crises.  There is GPS for kids that will help us locate our children in the [...]

Posted in Poverty ~ 16 Comments

Simplify Your Savings

{ April 21st, 2008 }



Photo by: helmet13

There are a million and one ways to increase your savings. But for people like me, simplicity is essential to maintaining a long term involvement in managing money. If you make things complicated for yourself than you are never going to stick with it, because chances are you would much rather [...]

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Outsource To Your Kids Already!

{ April 10th, 2008 }



Modern society has lost its ability to successfully employ its children. Don’t worry, I am not about to advocate we abandon child labor laws or that we continue to exploit the world’s poor through sweatshops and wage slavery. What I am about to do is argue that we can successfully employ our children to do [...]

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Save to Buy … If You Buy At All

{ March 18th, 2008 }



Sterling Silver Monkey Studs by knitsteel

Wouldn’t you find a woman wearing these precious earrings simply irresistible? I know I would. But like most things that make someone absolutely irresistible, these earing cost some dough. I’m not exactly sure how much, but anything with that type of sex appeal is worth at least [...]

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