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The Simple Dollar Morning Roundup: Where My Artistic Choices Come From Edition 1comment
Some people have asked recently where I come up with the pictures on the site, so here’s a primer. The “art” is all public domain stuff, having been produced far prior to 1900. Many of the other images are from public domain image repositories. A small number were images that I was permitted to use, and some of the logos and such fall under clear fair use guidelines (like using a Caribou Coffee logo in an article about the coffee). The remainder are taken by me with my digital camera. I also like to touch things up (when allowed to) with Photoshop. Having said that, here are some personal finance articles you may enjoy.
The Average American’s Spending Breakdown This is a strange and quite interesting picture, because it feels as though this picture becomes the picture of no one. Certain groups spend more in certain categories than others. (@ my money blog)
A Governor Truly Tightens His Belt I actually made an off-hand mention of this yesterday, but I wanted to highlight it because it’s really interesting. The governor of Oregon is attempting to live on $21 a week for food in order to gain a greater understanding of the kind of penny-pinching that lower-income people have to do every week. (@ nytimes via boston gal)
No Gas Day: Good Intentions, Horrible Idea, Worse Follow-Through The idea of a “no gas day” to wake up the oil companies to excessive pricing is logically flawed; here’s why. (@ poorer than you)
The Simple Dollar Retro: 30 Essential Pieces of Free (and Open) Software for Windows I use most of this stuff on a daily basis.
I never heard of ths gas out idea before this year. As a result I posted it on my blog, then emailed it to a local talk show host.
the Prince of Thrift @ 5:45 pm May 3rd, 2007 (comment #1)The host and I both looked it up on snopes and found that it won’t work for the very reasons you have mentioned. However, there is another thought out there. The other thought has a much better chance of working.
That idea is boycotting the largest fuel distributer (Exxon-Mobil) altogether. By boycotting the biggest, the theory goes, their profits suffer, while others like BP may go up, as a result they will try to get more customers back to their stores and lower their prices. If they drop their prices, everyone else will have to drop their prices as well to remain competitive. So what about it, lets boycott exxon-mobile stations for the next year or so. Force them to drop their prices and thus forcing all the other companies to follow suit.