Mental Purgatory

With the sudden drop in the stock market and the renewed focus on the economic depression, I thought I would post something I wrote elsewhere last year. While my views on economic action have changed slightly, and I would be better able to tie in new points based upon the current economic standing, the post [...]

As I’ve tried to expand my sites network beyond just R&B Haven and Mental Purgatory, I’ve discovered the challenge of regularly maintaining a large number of sites. Especially with a full time job, it’s just impossible to make blog posts on every site. As such, something needs to be done to mitigate some of the [...]

Lately I’ve been trying to read more and more about investing strategies and the best things to do with your money. One of my favorite sites to read up on this is bogleheads, where a group of investors inspired by Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard, discuss finances. Given their inspiration, the site likely has [...]

So some people in favor of the fair tax might be upset because my last post doesn’t address some of the solutions they’ve put in check to handle the problems I bring up. However, I’m still not convinced that those remedies make the fair tax any better of a tax system, so I figured I [...]

So during a recent rant of mine about government, politics, and economic stimulus, someone brought up the concept of the national sales tax. They said that this form of taxation would be significantly fairer than the income tax because everyone would be taxed at the same levels, and would remove the bloat of the IRS [...]

As I’m constantly looking for new ways to save money, I figured I would try and store some of the things I’ve learned and am trying here. This first tip stems from some research I did when a friend was deciding to study abroad for a semester. When studying abroad, you face the question of [...]

Yesterday, I attended the expansion celebrations at the Queen Afua Wellness Center in Brooklyn, New York. I’ve never heard of Queen Afua, but Erykah Badu was supposed to be there so I went, press badge in hand. Walking around with a small Nikon compact camera and my IRiver for recording, I was the odd man [...]

At work my boss suggested/asked/recommended that I read a book called The Pragmatic Programmer. While the book is great and deals with a lot of interesting lessons in computer programming, I decided to write about it here for its applicability in your every day life. One of the concepts that struck me most was this [...]

So I just wanted to let everyone know I’ve moved the story idea posts completely to Try Creative Writing. While I love doing them, and love sharing them with everyone else, I felt like they were cluttering up the blog too much and taking away from it’s original purpose. While I will keep you guys [...]

Okay, so neither of these pieces of this phase will change your bank account from 50$ to $1 million but it’s all about steps, and these two aspects here are great. Both of these pieces, the 401k and the Stock Purchase Plans are about taking advantage of offerings your company provides you to make the [...]