Simple Practices that Lead to Wealth
The Republicans and the President are finally close to cutting a deal to keep the government from defaulting. But, the deal smells more like a ploy to avoid the problem until the next election than a serious attempt to control runaway spending.
It’s sad to me when people look to possessions for happiness. They can fill their lives with toys and have all of the money in the world, but that won’t bring contentment.
Since I am an avid Do It Yourselfer (mostly because I am cheap), I thought I would share three examples of where we saved a ton of money by doing it ourselves.
MySpace, king of the social networks just a few short years ago, sold for a paltry $35 million this week. News Corp. bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005, which pencils out to a 94% loss. I won’t invest in Facebook, Twitter or most other online businesses and here are 4 important reasons why.