February 2010
124 posts
“How much money does a writer need? In New York, a young writer can get by on...”
– From Keith Gessen’s excellent 2008 essay “Money”, which offers a rare, frank look at the income of a young writer in NYC. Props to Emily at thingsiatethatilove for the reminder (via bundlehq) (via tiedupwithstring)
Doree Shafrir's '09 Jezebel post about women and... →
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"Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat... →
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This story is pretty incredible. US filmmaker Dan Wooley was trapped after the earthquake and used an iPhone app - Pocket First Aid and CPR - to treat his wounds until he was rescued 64 hours later. iPhone as survival tool? Maybe we should rethink how much is too much to spend on phone service.
“This is the essential nonsense of it all. Unless the mass of the population has...”
– H.G. Wells, in his review of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, in 1927
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““success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except...”
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“At ten that night I go to the break room for my final break, too footsore to...”
– Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich (via bundlehq) (via tiedupwithstring)
Live on a budget as a twentysomething
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Today I read an article on how to live on the cheap at 22. It was a link posted by a 26 year old friend on her Twitter - how ironic. But the article mainly circled around living on your own in New York City with a meagre salary, and I found it completely irrelevant to most of our circumstances in an Asian society. As someone who’s battled...
“I also think that the current frugality trend won’t last. When the economy...”
– Trent Hamm, at The Simple Dollar sez:
I think he’s probably right.
MBC of bundlehq sez: How long must a recession last before the people who experienced it have internalized the frugal habits that it necessitates? Veterans of the Great Depression continued to be frugal even after the economy...
must stop spending.
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i’ve been purchasing at least two fashion magazines (usually three) and ten newspapers a month every month for the past three years or so. i have to stop. between elle, vogue, NYLON, rolling stone and the independent (to name a few), i’m pretty sure i’ve spent over £300 (approx. $600) in 2009 alone. i don’t subscribe to magazines because i like...
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Everyone knows that one of the easiest ways to save money is to get addicted to a TV show that you can watch for free on the internet. So here’s something to feed or start a (healthy) addiction: Lost Starter Kits on Hulu. Sweet five-minute recaps of each season to get you caught up and ready to experience the finale with everyone else. And then? It’s back to Season...
Oprah and Gayle talk about the time Oprah just...
(Or how O & G pretend their friendship is awesomely normal, but actually, it seems pretty weird. Which is I guess understandable when your best friend is worth $2.3 billion.)
Oprah: I remember once when Gayle came to my house: I was already making a lot of money, and she was making not a lot of money. And we discovered I had $422 in my pocket.
Gayle: $482.
Oprah: Okay, $482.
Gayle: But who's counting?
Oprah: I had $482 just sort of stuck into a coat pocket.
Gayle: In your pants pocket. You know how sometimes you just find a five? Or a 20 is like, whoo! She pulls out $482...in $20s. And I'd gotten to Chicago on a Super Saver ticket; you know, back when you had to buy 30 days in advance for a decent price. She was living in Chicago, and I was married, and we had scrimped—I remember that once Billy and I didn't have $10 to go to the movies. He was in law school and I was the only one working. So for her to pull out $482 was like, wow! She goes, "God, where'd this come from? You want it?" And I went, "Oh, no. No. I'm good. I'm fine." But I'm thinking, "God, that would pay the light bill, the phone bill, the gas bill." And she just puts it back. It's probably still in that damn pocket. She was just extending a gesture, just being nice: "Oh, you want it?"
Oprah: But years later, she said, "You remember that time you pulled out the $482?"
Gayle: I said, "I wanted that money so bad!"
Oprah: "I needed that money so bad, but I wouldn't take it." You know what that's like? That is incredible for somebody like me who lives in a world where everybody wants a piece of you. I mean, people feel they deserve a piece of you. Strangers think that.
Gayle: Now I happily accept all gifts. [Laughter] No, but I just wouldn't have felt right.
Oprah: She's never asked me for a dime. There is a level of mutual respect that comes from being with somebody you know doesn't want anything from you but you. There will never be an ulterior motive. I have to say, this would have been a much different relationship had that ever happened.
(from O Magazine, August 2006)
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This week in pay-for-content news
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The New York Times is going to try that pay-for-content thing again (remember TimesSelect?); Newsweek admitted that only 35 readers have subscribed to its own pay-walled-website (ouch!); Hulu might start charging a monthly fee to watch old episodes of your favorite shows (A small price to pay for an addiction to Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin’s witty banter…); and over...
One week
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How long it took me to spend ALL of the money I got from my ring. I have amazing super-spending powers.
To be fair, most of it went to fix some major problems with my car and to some bills. The rest I just spent on cool things for myself. Like some awesome grown-up clothes, a super nerdy t-shirt, books (duh), and a bag full of amazing things from Lush....
“Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It’s money that’s dear....”
– John Dos Passos (via thedemondemos) (via bundlehq) (via tiedupwithstring)
"The big epiphany is I'm a little guy but I've got...
Craig Cunningham of Dallas - along with many others across the country - is chiseling away at his $100,000 in credit card debt (!) by taking his creditors to court on repeated and regular violations of consumer rights laws. Debt collection agencies call him a “credit terrorist,” but he has the law on his side, and he’s winning. Check out the full story at the Dallas Observer. Would you take a...
