I gots to monetize

Monetize. It sounds like something a superhero would say, like “flame on” or….or….what’s another superhero–ee thing to say? “LET’S MONEYTIZE!!!” When I started writing this blog, I read some things about “monetizing your blog”… “make money with your blog”…..”get the … Continue reading

“they” only talk about the weather

I think mailmen must be like farmers. My life is becoming more and more ruled by the weather. It’s not a case of bad weather ever stopping me from getting out and sliding around on the roads…it’s just a matter … Continue reading

finding something good is usually accidental

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ Man…there is so much good, fun stuff out in the interworld. It’s pretty amazing. Doing some research for a post about Joe Dominguez and “Your Money or Your Life”, I ran across this guy’s blog. It’s a blog about … Continue reading

my mail jeep

(this isn’t my Jeep…but it looks like it..we live out in the country….deep in the woods…so this isn’t my mail Jeep…just one that looks like it. I’m just sayin’) My old Jeep Cherokee  was making a strange noise on the … Continue reading

take the money…and walk

  Back in the late 80’s, I bought an audio tape course called Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence. It was a course taught by Joe Dominguez about our relationship with money and things…and about how to … Continue reading

send it somewhere else…it’s safe as milk anyway.

still from the movie Gasland: A film by Josh Fox www.gaslandthemovie.com (it looks from the picture above that once you punch through the water table that you’re home free)       A couple of days ago, I wrote a … Continue reading

you can’t rent a motel room in either of the Dakotas

This summer we took a long family road trip out to Idaho. My cousin warned us that we “didn’t want to have to stop in the Dakotas…you probably won’t be able to find a motel room because of all the … Continue reading

USPS and the 5 day salvation

  Yesterday we got the official news that the Post Office would be going to a 5 day delivery week in August. This was after a pretty long period of rumors and waiting…wondering if the USPS would ever get the … Continue reading

the hand that feeds you

W-2’s are eye-opening. It’s a time every year when we get to gauge what we trade our lives for. It’s also maybe a time of year that we can be thankful for opportunities that we are given to keep things … Continue reading

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Ramit Sethi is a smart as…

Ramit Sethi is a smart as heck know-it-all Indian dude that , when it comes to finance at least, knows what he’s talking about. ( I suppose you thought I’d misspelled A** in the title? maybe….he is kind of a smarta**…and that’s probably a lot of the appeal of this book.)

The book isn’t a get rich quick kind of situation.  The main idea is that if we can “get out of our own way” (my quotes….not his), automate our finances, learn to avoid/eliminate fees, and save money in simple ways that we stand a better chance of being rich than if we continue to make the mistakes that the majority of us make.

I’ve read a bunch of this type of financial books….trying to figure it all out.  I guess it’s kind of like the friends who live at the beach who always want to come to visit the mountains.  We always want something different than what we have.  Temporarily, we don’t have a huge pile of money.  I’d like a huge pile of money….I’m not embarrassed to say it…a big old imposing pile of money…lots of money. I don’t love money….that’s the root of all evil…but I would love to have a bunch of money.  It would be fun.  Ramit’s book is a fun read. It’s fun to read about how to save, invest, and handle your money so that someday the reader might end up with a GIANT pile of money. (did I mention that I’d like to have a big ol’ honkin’ Scrooge McDuck style monster pile of money?  Well…I would. )

This book is currently a little more than ten dollars at Amazon.com….I can think of at least three tips that he gives that would save the price of the book in the first couple of chapters alone.It’s a bargain and a smart investment.

I’d like to sit down with Ramit sometime and chew the fat, have a couple of beers, let him pick up the tab (he’s a rich author, you know?)…but until that happens this book is the next best thing to hanging out with him.

http://www.amazon.com/Will-Teach-You-Be-Rich/dp/0761147489/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352194998&sr=1-1&keywords=i+will+teach+you+to+be+rich