Another one of my favourite blogs: I Will Teach You to Be Rich (Not a Scam), with Ramit Sethi. Like Penelope Trunk, it’s pretty obvious that he’s making his living and his long-term career options off of his blog, but as a casual reader, that just means more posts, so I’ll take the constant plugs for his book and his paid services as they come. My favourite is the anonymous money diaries. Most recently: the young employee in NYC about to lose her job to the Great Recession.
This girl seriously spends less on food (Kraft Dinner! Off-brand Ritz crackers! Canned soup!) than I do on my weekly laundry, and subsequently eats probably less protein than your average 5 lb guinea pig needs, but this is my favourite part:
Day 5, 12:00 pm:Pay $1.25 in library fines while checking books out from the library—I borrow 3 books on business, success, and surviving unemployment. I usually pay a few dollars per month in library fines because of how actively I use the library, but for the amount of reading/movie-watching I get in return, it’s well worth it.
Business, success, and surviving unemployment. That both breaks my heart and makes me feel awesome that the library is actually actively used a) by someone my age and b) someone who evidently needs it (that, and a bowl of quinoa, holy crow). All of the stuff we’re doing in advocacy class wherein we talk about how (in times like these) the library is the last bastion of help for the newly disenfranchised is actually not made up. If I’m not surprised, I’m at least very gratified.
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Thanks for reading! I’m glad you like Money Diaries. They were something new, but they’ve really caught on…maybe because they’re oddly voyeuristic.
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