“The Debt” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
This poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar is from “Lyrics of Love and Laughter” (1913). The Debt This is the debt I pay Just for one […]
Doug's Methods of Saving Money
This poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar is from “Lyrics of Love and Laughter” (1913). The Debt This is the debt I pay Just for one […]
“Never compare your insides to someone else’s outsides.” I first ran into those words of wisdom in Rob Lowe’s book, “Love Life”, in the chapter […]
Have you heard of “The Micawber Principle”? Elsewhere on this blog, I quoted “Wilkins Micawber” in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure […]
While reading Edward Gibbons’ The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire recently, I found two passages that might be taken as person finance advice. […]
A few years ago, I saw “The Grasshopper and the Ants” (Disney’s short film of 1934 based on Aesop’s fable, “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, […]
Here’s inspiration from a century ago from The Baltimore and Ohio Employees Magazine (February 1916): The Saving Road to Independence For Men and Women of Limited […]
An old song says “Love is like a faucet … it turns off and on”.* I’m not so sure about love being like a faucet, […]
This meme is found all over the internet in various forms. As far as I have seen, it’s never presented with any citation as to […]
Browsing through an old issue of The Sabbath Recorder (A Seventh Day Baptist Weekly, published by The American Sabbath Tract Society, Plainfield, N.J., vol. 76, No. […]
Albert Einstein probably never said, “Compound interest … one of man’s greatest inventions.” “The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.” “Compound interest […]
“Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt” — Benjamin Franklin wrote in “Poor Richard’s Almanac”.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and […]