Dozens of tips for the price of one click
This one link from LifeHack.org yields dozens of money saving tips. You also get a pep talk, putting our current economic crisis in context, in terms of the rest of the world’s woeful plight. 8 Simple Ways to Save Money & Help Stop Poverty gives you ideas for what to do with all the money you save via their tips (hint: donate). The tips range from the easily said and done like make your own coffee and bring your own lunch to work to more industrious tips such as insulating your crawl space and getting a lot more organized in tracking your expenses. Worth taking some notes.
Don’t wait. Do these things now
This “Four Tips: Smart Money Moves for a Down Economy” article from the Wall Street Journal is pretty basic but it doesn’t hurt to hear again how to create a budget and eliminate debt.
Stay away from free lunches, and other free advice
In these tough times, apparently some are getting taken advantage of by people that are supposed to be helping. Another cautionary short article from the Wall Street Journal, this one on retirement planning scams. Read it and grind your teeth.
Laughing’s better than crying
"I'll give you an idea how bad the economy is: you know the giant national debt clock in Times Square that keeps track of the national debt? It's now run out of digits. This is true. It only goes up to a trillion, and we passed that. We're now going to add two more digits so it can go up to a quadrillion dollars. Are these even real numbers anymore? Don't they sound like the kinds of numbers you'd use when you argue with your friends?" --Jay Leno
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