One of the most interesting websites I’ve been ogling lately is howmoneywalks dot com The website pulls publicly-available tax data from the IRS and shows how money flows to and from states. The IRS, if you weren’t already aware, tracks all your income for tax collection purposes. But, turns out, it also tells an interesting […]
What the numbers DON’T tell you
When my dog was just a wee pup, we took him to the dog park and a pack of dogs chased him down and I had to save him. Diving into a pack of barking, snapping, dogs isn’t my favorite thing to do but I did it anyway and I didn’t walk away unscathed. One […]
Foul-mouthed financial lessons
Love, love, love Gordon Ramsay (the famous, foul-mouthed, chef and restauranteur). Years ago, he had this show, Kitchen Nightmares, where he’d go in and rip these restaurant owners apart. Usually they deserved it because their food was awful, service awful, and the owners were in denial. Actually that was my favorite part. Ramsay would have […]
How President Trump can motivate you to save more money
Apparently, when Trump was elected president, college campuses all over the U.S. had “cry ins”, where students sat inside and… cried. … because their favored candidate lost. Also, therapy dogs and… play-doh. And… exams were made optional. And so on. I dunno, seems like a bunch of emotional hemophiliacs attending an expensive pre-school. Actually, that’s […]
MA! The MEATLOAF!
Many moons ago, I was a teenager and saving money was not on my radar. Sure, I had saved some money (past tense) but I wasn’t actually SAVING money. It wasn’t purposeful. It wasn’t consistent… more like random and accidental. In my early 20s, I would put away small amounts and then blow it on […]