Comments for Coin by Coin: Helping You Work Toward Financial Freedom One Step at a Time

Comment on Think About Retirement Differently by Saturnous

Saturnous — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:26:47 +0000

Find a company which let his best men vanish for a year. Also in many businesses (IT example) you need a continuous learning to because their products changing fast. I would do it in a perfect world where you can find anytime a job.

Comment on Feed Yourself For Only $845 A Year by Dvortygirl

Dvortygirl — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:06:35 +0000

It’s not economy if I can’t or don’t want to eat it, or if the bugs eat it first. I won’t eat the canned spaghetti; I’m sure it tastes disgusting and spaghetti sauce is not so hard to make. Canned lima beans? Yuck, no thanks. As for salt and baking powder, I have some in the pantry. I already do buy them in bulk. I don’t know what to do with the tomato powder, but I grow my own tomatoes and occasionally get around to canning the excess. Butter powder, I imagine, can be reconstituted into something resembling butter, but I’d rather have real butter (bought in bulk, frozen) for those things that need it and a jug of Costco olive oil for stir frying. I have an apple tree, and I’ve grown a few of my own potatoes. I mean to grow more next year. I currently have onions and peas and garlic in the ground, and I expect to plant lettuce and spinach as soon as there’s a break in the rain.

I’m trying to save money on food *and* eat better. That means growing some of my own fruits and veggies and buying more basic ingredients (flour, vegetables and beans rather than bread or canned soup), and not letting food go to waste. I already do buy in bulk, sort of, but for one person that means only the ingredients that can keep on the shelf or in the freezer. And while I haven’t chosen to eliminate meat, I have been eating less of it lately. One thing I have cut out is boxed breakfast cereal.

Comment on Feed Yourself For Only $845 A Year by jess

jess — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:11:02 +0000

Did you notice that this $845 plan doesn’t include meat? That means people who need meat protein in their diet must spend more money then what this plan includes. But this sounds good for vegetarians.

I can imagine foster parents really taking advantage of this when they are on a minimal government stipend.

Comment on Babies are money-eating monsters. by Brian

Brian — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:33:37 +0000

Was this written by somebody that doesn’t have kids? Money isn’t everything, in reality money is nothing.

Comment on Feed Yourself For Only $845 A Year by chris

chris — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:37:26 +0000

I can’t eat this crap. refined grains will kill you and make you fat. yes you need to spend more to be healthy + good for the environment.

Comment on Feed Yourself For Only $845 A Year by anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:46:46 +0000

The linked food package is a “basic package”, based on just 1000 calories per day. So, it is more like a half-year package.

Comment on Your Baby Cost You $700,000 in Lost Opportunity by Grey

Grey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:10:42 +0000

@Lewis: Better hope there's no upturns either by that logic. 10% *on average* over 18 years is a pretty standard return for many index funds. Se the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Comment on Your Baby Cost You $700,000 in Lost Opportunity by Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:49:04 +0000

10% every year? Sweet! Hope there’s no downturn…

Comment on How the Current Economy Has Affected Dentists, Vasectomies, Guns and Shark Attacks by Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:47:31 +0000

Gun sales are up because gun-nuts think Obama will take their guns away. Despite the administration saying not a single word about introducing any kind of gun control legislation whatsoever. NRA fear-mongering = cash for gun shops.

Comment on Your Baby Cost You $700,000 in Lost Opportunity by steph

steph — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:16:19 +0000

There are no logical reasons to have children. There are emotional ones, and life-fulfilling reasons, but you can’t set them to any sort of logic (other than biological need). You either want to or you don’t want to. And if you want to beyond all reasons or logic, then you do it, or try to. And it’s usually worth it, I think. It changed me in ways that I didn’t expect, and made me a better version of myself. And I wouldn’t take 1 million dollars for my daughter or the experience that it has given me so far… but I won’t do it again. I am content with one!