Comments on: Twenty Three Ways To Improve Your Finances This Weekend

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:31:24 +0000

Trent, we appreciate the easy ideas for saving money. $100 (or more) per year might not seem like much until you start investing it; beyond that, it keeps us in a frugal mindset and reminds us that little things DO add up.

I’m laughing over your response to John, Robert! I take John’s point but have a pet peeve for sloppy and ill-written blog commentary.

By: Robert Dobbs

Robert Dobbs — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:26:11 +0000

John, that $15 you are saving could be spent on paying your local school taxes, so that the students coming out of the school have better written skills than you do.

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:25:13 +0000

Only MADDDD Cheap ppl would even think of doing all of these things for an extar 100 dollars per month or so. I would rather live compfrtably and not worry so much about howmuch money i am spending down to even 15 dollars less per yer year no one really cares unless ur homeless

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By: 1mil

1mil — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:35:50 +0000

I hear you — still my point stands. Wouldn’t it be more worth your time to do something that had the potential to get your more money than you are saving by doing it yourself?

*(where it is some arbitrary task) ;)

By: Lazy Man and Money

Lazy Man and Money — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:36:14 +0000

It’s pretty hard to make $50 an hour all the time. For instance, this evening when I go home from work, I won’t be making any money except for the passive income I have (so fractions of a penny). If I can do something that gets me half of my work pay it’s still more than what I would have had before.

The problem with that argument is that there’s a cap on how often you can make $50/hour. Plus $50/hour is really, really good considering that would have to be after tax money (you don’t pay for stuff before taxes), and after work related costs (commuting and such).

By: 1mil

1mil — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:40:51 +0000

You know, the one thing that people don’t consider is that time costs money. Though doing it yourself may seem cheaper on the surface, if for example your time is worth $50 an hour, yet you are spending an hour it only would cost you $15 dollars to do elsewhere — if you could have been spending that hour working on your business or your profession — are you really saving money? (by the way this is the same argument I use to get out of cleaning my house lol)

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