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08/30/08 // Link:
Free Money Finance: Why I Like Index Funds, Part 3 I don’t really understand investing. Like at all. But I’ve been doing some research on the internets and index funds seem like pretty good way to go, at least for beginners. Now I just need some money to invest….continue reading »
08/29/08 // Link:
Gas Goes Up, People Stop Driving. Jerry Brown was Right. From November to June, American driving dropped by 53.2 billion miles. Think about that. 53.2 billion fewer miles. That’s crazy. And kinda cool. Gasoline prices, which rose to a nationwide average of $4.11 a gallon last month, now average $3.69 …continue reading »
02/20/08 // Link:
Tom Coates on the One Laptop Per Child Project By far the best piece of writing on the One Laptop Per Child project that I’ve run across (my own included). I’ve been following this project for over a year now (partly because of my job at Wired, but also …continue reading »
10/17/07 // Link:
Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty Micro-lending is something I’ve posted about before, but lately I’ve been considering actually doing it. It interests me because its a chance to invest in something on the community scale. Investing in large corporations makes me uncomfortable on a number …continue reading »
10/10/07 // Link:
Make Sure Your Money Isn’t Supporting Genocide In Sudan I’ve been trying to follow the new in Sudan ever since I wrote about it for Wired, but it isn’t easy. Mainstream media seems to still ignore Africa, doubly so in the United States, but I did run across this …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
20 Great Nuggets of Personal Finance Advice Some great financial advice as always from the Get Rich Slowly blog. Here’s the top five: Be humble. “When you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — that is knowledge.” — Confucius Take …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
How to Get Paid to Live Overseas People are always asking me how to go about traveling around the world. The answer quite simply is to save money. Westerners are doubly fortunate because our currencies are generally stronger than the rest of the world (though the dollar …continue reading »
09/08/07 // Link:
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch? Having worked in the food industry for nearly nine years, I can attest to the staggering amount of waste it produces, and it sounds like the supermarket world is no better, so why not grab some? Unfortunately lots of places …continue reading »
08/14/07 // Link:
Debtor Nation Great piece in the Harvard Magazine about something that’s always puzzled me… consumerism. I’ve long wondered exactly how American culture can continue to buy and buy and buy, it seems like eventually we’ll run out of stuff to buy and …continue reading »
08/04/07 // Link:
The Realities of Home-Ownership Get Rich Slowly has an interesting breakdown of the cost of buying a house, which makes renting seem not necessarily that bad. Of course it also does some things like take the extra money for the mortgage payment versus rent …continue reading »
06/01/07 // Link:
Nine Wines Under $10 A nice list of highly affordable wines (under $10). Curtesy of Dr. Vino: “The hardest thing — but perhaps more sought-after than a Lafite — is a list of good, interesting and affordable wines, for parties or for dinner Sunday …continue reading »
05/17/07 // Link:
A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks Stuart Elliott the New York Times “Minimalist” writes what professional chefs have always known: all that expensive kitchen equipment is totally unnecessary. “The question I’m asked more often than any other is, ‘What kitchen equipment should I buy?’ Like cookbooks, …continue reading »
02/02/07 // Link:
How to Eat Vegetarian on the Cheap “I recently posted two articles for frugal carnivores: a guide to cheap cuts of beef and another on on how to buy a side of beef. GRS-reader Sally has produced an introduction to eating vegetarian for cheap. Though her tips …continue reading »
01/30/07 // Link:
Get Rich Slowly Gardening 101: Plan Today for Summer Success Raising your own berries, fruits, and vegetables is a fun and rewarding way to save money. Our grocery bills drop dramatically during harvest season, and the food cannot be beat. (I love our salsa recipe.) But my wife notes, “February …continue reading »
01/24/07 // Link:
Tiny London Apartment for $334,000 A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for £170,000 (currently about 334,254 USD) in London’s upmarket Chelsea. The former janitor’s storeroom measures 11ft by 7ft and has a cupboard place for a shower and …continue reading »