Weekly Review: Spending Spending this month was a little high – I went over budget with entertainment by $15.00 and buying a book on Gimp for $40.00 (see education spending). For the uninitiated, Gimp is a free graphics program (like Photoshop) you can download offline. I was thinking about using the program for my MS Paint creations. It’s only $65.00 but I have to be
* The gracious host, Ms. Thrifty, of this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance has been kind of nice to feature my article in this edition’s fine selection of PF articles. Please head on over to check it out. Last week, I wrote a post about Visa’s #smallenfreuden campaign and some of the problems I saw with using your credit card for every day purchases. Some
In the Beginning, there was #Smallenfreuden Once upon a time – or about six months ago – there were ten rich, middle-aged, overweight white guys sitting in a posh board room on the eighty-second floor of a designer skyscraper in San Francisco. These were no ordinary rich, middle-aged, overweight white guys (RMAOWG), they were special. They were special because they had elite marketing powers and
In the Personal Finance community, there is a lot of buzz about the importance of a “marketable” degree usually followed by some examples involving a philosophy major flipping burgers or a music major waiting tables. With student loan debt becoming the teetering tower of Jenga blocks that it is; it makes a lot of sense to be practical and major in something that has a
Hi everyone! Just a quick post for now – I wanted to let everyone know that I have an article included in this weeks fine selection of Carnival of Personal Finance submissions hosted by the fabulous Martin over at Studenomics. Cheers everyone! Lindsey PS – I am fabulous.
Second installment in the “Advertising: Rabbit in the Hat” series Did you watch the Youtube video yet? Go ahead, I’ll wait. For me, the commercial felt like an emotional cannon aimed at a mouse – and I’m the mouse. I know it took me through a tour de force of anger, fear, sadness, and guilt in under 90 seconds. I was left with an almost
Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what we’re up against as consumers when we’re trying to save money? Advertising is everywhere and corporations use it to reach us in ways we couldn’t even begin to guess at: they scan our brains, they research our cognitive processes, and they gather our opinions in focus groups. Corporations spare no expense to understand what makes us tick and what moves
