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7 Habits of Highly Frugal People, or How to Get the Boat You Always Wanted
Or how to get the retirement you always wanted, or just about anything
else. As this excellent article points out, it is all about attitude. http://moneyning.com/frugality/7-hab...frugal-people/ A quick quote from the beginning: ===== The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. ===== |
7 Habits of Highly Frugal People, or How to Get the Boat You Always Wanted
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:56:31 -0400, Wayne B wrote:
Or how to get the retirement you always wanted, or just about anything else. As this excellent article points out, it is all about attitude. http://moneyning.com/frugality/7-hab...frugal-people/ A quick quote from the beginning: ===== The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. ===== Some good ideas there. I wish I'd been presented this when I was a teenager. This is the kind of thing that should be part of a high school curriculum. It would be much more appropriate than a lot of the crap that's being taught. |
7 Habits of Highly Frugal People, or How to Get the Boat YouAlways Wanted
On 4/23/2011 7:56 AM, Wayne B wrote:
Or how to get the retirement you always wanted, or just about anything else. As this excellent article points out, it is all about attitude. http://moneyning.com/frugality/7-hab...frugal-people/ coin change a A quick quote from the beginning: ===== The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. ===== This is small stuff but; My son paid for his vacation by putting his change including dollar bills in a large mason jar. he had over 400.00 in coin change. Every time we get an solicitation for a magazine, or whatever: every time we get a refund, or small check, and on Monday whatever we have left in the wallet except 20.00 is put into a savings account. I just started the last bit. In four years it is over 7,000.00. Doesn't earn much interest. I and everybody else loses what wasn't spent thanks to Wall Street/Fed/Washington but at least that amount is there if we gotta use it. Whats our dollar worth now three cents? Mad as hell. Looks like Bilderbergs are fulfilling their goals. Gotta find my cave and meadow. Which taste better fescue or blue grass? |
7 Habits of Highly Frugal People, or How to Get the Boat YouAlways Wanted
Lil Abner wrote:
On 4/23/2011 7:56 AM, Wayne B wrote: Or how to get the retirement you always wanted, or just about anything else. As this excellent article points out, it is all about attitude. http://moneyning.com/frugality/7-hab...frugal-people/ coin change a A quick quote from the beginning: ===== The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. ===== This is small stuff but; My son paid for his vacation by putting his change including dollar bills in a large mason jar. he had over 400.00 in coin change. Every time we get an solicitation for a magazine, or whatever: every time we get a refund, or small check, and on Monday whatever we have left in the wallet except 20.00 is put into a savings account. I just started the last bit. In four years it is over 7,000.00. Doesn't earn much interest. I and everybody else loses what wasn't spent thanks to Wall Street/Fed/Washington but at least that amount is there if we gotta use it. Whats our dollar worth now three cents? Mad as hell. Looks like Bilderbergs are fulfilling their goals. Gotta find my cave and meadow. Which taste better fescue or blue grass? Fescue is chewy; bluegrass is the favorite flavor of upscale horses. |
7 Habits of Highly Frugal People, or How to Get the Boat YouAlways Wanted
On 23/04/2011 5:56 AM, Wayne B wrote:
Or how to get the retirement you always wanted, or just about anything else. As this excellent article points out, it is all about attitude. http://moneyning.com/frugality/7-hab...frugal-people/ A quick quote from the beginning: ===== The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. ===== I am a big fan of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Read the book and did the course in about 1993. I found it very beneficial. I have even pulled the book out for a periodic re-read. But a warning, fleabaggers might not like it because it means organizing their thoughts and life plans. And they fear being successful when it is easier to whine a lot and ask government to steal and ponzi fraud debt for them. -- I can assure you that the road to prosperity is not paved with fleabagger debt. |
7 Habits of Highly Frugal People, or How to Get the Boat YouAlways Wanted
On 23/04/2011 9:19 AM, Lil Abner wrote:
On 4/23/2011 7:56 AM, Wayne B wrote: Or how to get the retirement you always wanted, or just about anything else. As this excellent article points out, it is all about attitude. http://moneyning.com/frugality/7-hab...frugal-people/ coin change a A quick quote from the beginning: ===== The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. ===== This is small stuff but; My son paid for his vacation by putting his change including dollar bills in a large mason jar. he had over 400.00 in coin change. Every time we get an solicitation for a magazine, or whatever: every time we get a refund, or small check, and on Monday whatever we have left in the wallet except 20.00 is put into a savings account. I just started the last bit. In four years it is over 7,000.00. Doesn't earn much interest. I and everybody else loses what wasn't spent thanks to Wall Street/Fed/Washington but at least that amount is there if we gotta use it. Whats our dollar worth now three cents? Mad as hell. Looks like Bilderbergs are fulfilling their goals. Gotta find my cave and meadow. Which taste better fescue or blue grass? Funny, I put $10K in a TFSA (Canadian version of a ROTH) just 2 1/2 years ago now, sitting at $23K. Money is attracted to people who know how to manage it. Got this from my grandfather. Wise words. Think of money as a depreciating stock and the entire US government debt dilutes that stock every day. Would you buy a stock like that when you could own precious metals or oil that retains value? How much would a company be worth if they created 20% new no value stock every year? Well, it is that simple as to what is happening to the USD value. DC prints it faster than toilet paper, it will eventually become diluted enough to be toilet paper. You didn't think that 0% interest rate Federal debt was fee did you? -- I can assure you that the road to prosperity is not paved with fleabagger debt. |
7 Habits of Highly Frugal People, or How to Get the Boat You Always Wanted
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:54:01 -0600, Canuck57
wrote: On 23/04/2011 9:19 AM, Lil Abner wrote: On 4/23/2011 7:56 AM, Wayne B wrote: Or how to get the retirement you always wanted, or just about anything else. As this excellent article points out, it is all about attitude. http://moneyning.com/frugality/7-hab...frugal-people/ coin change a A quick quote from the beginning: ===== The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. ===== This is small stuff but; My son paid for his vacation by putting his change including dollar bills in a large mason jar. he had over 400.00 in coin change. Every time we get an solicitation for a magazine, or whatever: every time we get a refund, or small check, and on Monday whatever we have left in the wallet except 20.00 is put into a savings account. I just started the last bit. In four years it is over 7,000.00. Doesn't earn much interest. I and everybody else loses what wasn't spent thanks to Wall Street/Fed/Washington but at least that amount is there if we gotta use it. Whats our dollar worth now three cents? Mad as hell. Looks like Bilderbergs are fulfilling their goals. Gotta find my cave and meadow. Which taste better fescue or blue grass? Funny, I put $10K in a TFSA (Canadian version of a ROTH) just 2 1/2 years ago now, sitting at $23K. Money is attracted to people who know how to manage it. Got this from my grandfather. Wise words. Think of money as a depreciating stock and the entire US government debt dilutes that stock every day. Would you buy a stock like that when you could own precious metals or oil that retains value? How much would a company be worth if they created 20% new no value stock every year? Well, it is that simple as to what is happening to the USD value. DC prints it faster than toilet paper, it will eventually become diluted enough to be toilet paper. You didn't think that 0% interest rate Federal debt was fee did you? According to Greg, that's a very bad idea. |
7 Habits of Highly Frugal People, or How to Get the Boat YouAlways Wanted
On 23/04/2011 6:39 AM, John H wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:56:31 -0400, Wayne wrote: Or how to get the retirement you always wanted, or just about anything else. As this excellent article points out, it is all about attitude. http://moneyning.com/frugality/7-hab...frugal-people/ A quick quote from the beginning: ===== The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. ===== Some good ideas there. I wish I'd been presented this when I was a teenager. This is the kind of thing that should be part of a high school curriculum. It would be much more appropriate than a lot of the crap that's being taught. Ya, me too. I wasted 7 years before I started to get wiser. They should teach this in high school as life skills. Right along side balancing the check book. Teach the meaning of debt. There is a hilarious program called "T'll Debt Do Us Part" were couples are in serious debt problems. Many even have college and university educations but can't do a basic house hold budget. Sad but true. http://www.slice.ca/shows/showspage.aspx?title_id=93097 Now I know a degree in say chemistry or electronics isn't finance, but part of graduation with a degree means you should be able to think, read a basic personal finance book and move on to be a millionaire. But so few can. A shame, we are our worst enemies. -- I can assure you that the road to prosperity is not paved with fleabagger debt. |
7 Habits of Highly Frugal People, or How to Get the Boat YouAlways Wanted
On Apr 23, 3:12*pm, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:39:23 -0400, John H wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:56:31 -0400, Wayne B wrote: Or how to get the retirement you always wanted, or just about anything else. * As this excellent article points out, it is all about attitude. http://moneyning.com/frugality/7-hab...frugal-people/ A quick quote from the beginning: ===== The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don t like in your life or you can set about changing them. ===== Some good ideas there. I wish I'd been presented this when I was a teenager. This is the kind of thing that should be part of a high school curriculum. It would be much more appropriate than a lot of the crap that's being taught. The best thing you could teach a teenager is to get in the habit of paying yourself first. Set up a savings program from day one where you put something like a tenth of your income into savings. If you start right away you will not miss the money. Then after a while, when you need a car or something, you can buy it and not finance it. If you do that, make car payments anyway ... to yourself. Once you get started, you end up spending as much money as everyone else but you are paying yourself back instead of making a banker rich. It is all just getting started on the right foot. I always hear the bleeding hearts say they can't afford to save any money but somehow they can still manage to come up with 12-29% of most of what they spend to send to a banker in interest. That's been a good philosophy. I have three kids, 35, 32, and 20. Every since they were born I've put something liquid away for them. It started off as a mere dollar away for them in a savings account. , I've done some adjusting around, but when you consider that was just 7 bucks a week.. Ok so if I'd continued to do that, 1 dollar x365 x 35 years. I still woudl be loading up the oldest with a ppretty good chunk, with really nothing. after the accounts would reach a thousand, I'd buy a long term CD and let them ride and renew them when the term was due. Of course intrest rates on savings and CD's are almost nothing, but the money's there. It doesn't take long to stash away something simple and in the long run it's payed off well. |
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