A recent blog entry at the Get Rich Slowly blog examined the article in the “Upsizing” section of the site entitled Ten Unconventional Money Saving Tips.
Juicy Excerpt: Money management isn’t just about knowing the math. It’s mostly about knowing yourself. It’s…about learning to see money in new ways…. These tips are excellent examples. While some of them do include some arithmetic, they all address psychology.
Lots of good comments on my advice to Pay Yourself Last (some pro, some con) follow J.D.’s blog entry.
Juicy Excerpt (Con): It’s not about fun, it’s about doing the needful. If saving was fun, there wouldn’t be so many blogs and advisers writing articles about how to save! People would do it simply because it felt good.
Juicy Excerpt (Pro): Joe, you make saving sound so dreary! It may be for most but it doesn’t have to be so, which is the point that the author of this article makes. Personally I do find saving fun and immediately rewarding (just watching those numbers rise and expand). However despite it being exciting, I find that impulse buys do gnaw at my goals, so adequate planning is definitely prescribed to overcome that.
Jon Harding says
I recall you taking February off from blogging to work on your new book so you could get it out before the next big price drop
Well, the next big price drop appears to be here. Can we expect the book soon?
Thanks
-JH
Rob says
Thanks for asking about the book, Jon.
No, I’m afraid that the book is not going to be ready for some time.
You are right that I was hoping to get the book finished before the big price drop. It obviously would help with marketing to be able to say that “this is the book that explains what went wrong” at a time when a lot of people are trying to understand what went wrong. So I am a bit sad not to have it ready.
The other side of the story is that there are lots of big questions addressed in the book and I would rather get things right than get them out quick. I have decided that I will take as long as it takes me to get the best possible book produced, one that will stand the test of time and will not be something of interest only to people trying to understand one particular price crash.
I continue to work on the book. But I feel that I am still learning too much about the subject to be ready to put all the words down on paper in a finished state. My guess is that it will be some time before I am satisfied that my knowledge of the subject is complete enough to justify putting out my take in book form.
Rob
John Walter Russell says
The enemy of good is better.
We need your book even if not perfect.
There will always be future books.
Have fun.
John Walter Russell
Jon Harding says
thanks for the update. Good luck with the book.