Archive for the ‘Money’ Category
Advertising: Information or Manipulation
What would you say is the goal of commercial advertising? Most people would agree that advertising provides the consumer with information about a product, but is that all advertising accomplishes? No. Advertising is used to masterfully engage the mind of the consumer to motivate him or her to buy the advertised product. Advertising is about [...]
In: Money · Tagged with: Advertising, Mind Manipulation, Mindless Spending
High Priced Domain
Yes I changed my blog look. I’ve been casually looking around for something and I stumbled upon this one yesterday and decided to go with it. I don’t like to change themes too often and I hope to stick with this one. How many times have you changed blog themes? I’m in the process of [...]
In: Money, Technology · Tagged with: Domain Name, Money, Registrar
Too Successful For A Mate
If you are new here, every Monday I blog about a money related topic. Nothing should be considered as financial advice, but for informational and discussion purposes only. Is there a such thing as being too successful for a mate? In this case I’m talking about a successful woman. Of course. women have no problem [...]
In: Money · Tagged with: Dating, Education, Money, Successful, Women
Do You Suffer From Affluenza?
Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth. Below is a brief and somewhat comical soap opera-ish video on this [...]
In: Health, Money · Tagged with: affluenza, debt, health problems, Money, the joneses
Friends and Money
Q. What’s the quickest way to destroy a friendship? A. Lend them money. Okay maybe this is not true with everyone, there are some friends that we can lend money to and then there are friends that we shouldn’t lend money to, but we do anyway because: we’re friends, until they don’t pay us back. [...]
