I always find it an amusing experience to chat with people who drank the corporate cool-aid. These are guys who actually believe in the system’s propaganda. Seriously, they think that their place in society is defined by their job! Only they don’t call it a day job, they call it their “career”!!!! My reaction to [...]
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A Career…..what the heck is that?!?
Posted: 18th March 2013 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Economics, Money, Recession, Self-Sufficiency2
How to negotiate down the price of anything!
Posted: 14th November 2012 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Debt, Depression, Frugality, MoneyAs many of you know, my family and I are in debt. Like most families in America, we unwittingly trapped ourselves into this situation and must dig our way out of it. So for the last 2 years, we have been doing everything in our power to cast off the shackles of debt slavery. And [...]
My $10 per month smartphone plan!
Posted: 29th September 2012 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Frugality, Money, Self-SufficiencyAs I try to scale down my expenses and prepare for the hard times to come, I cannot help but notice just how wasteful some of the “normal” conveniences that Americans take for granted. Smartphones are a great example. Nearly all of my acquaintances have a smartphone. I know people without full-time employment and living [...]
The Paradox of Thrift…Revisited
Posted: 24th August 2012 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Debt, Economics, MoneyAs many of you know, I’m totally into frugal living. Over the past several years, I’ve become progressively more efficient at gaining maximal satisfaction with minimal money spent. I’ve become far more self-sufficient, growing much of my own food and repairing many household items. Of course, having a mountain of school debt is no small [...]
Small Business Building Adventures
Posted: 11th August 2012 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Debt, Depression, Economics, Home Business, Money, Passive IncomeSeveral weeks ago, while writing about how to plan and execute a small business, I mentioned that I was working on 2 new small business ventures. As stated earlier, I’ve been working mad hours these days to build multiple streams of income such that the loss of the day job will not plunge my [...]
Escaping the Long-term Unemployment Trap!
Posted: 18th July 2012 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Depression, Money, Recession, Self-SufficiencyWhen I was a teenager, my father got laid off and could not find a job for 3 years straight. It was an extremely trying time for our family. Over the course of a few years, I saw a kind of depression and hopelessness overtake my father. Our family sank from the lower-middle class into [...]
How to get rid of Cable TV
Posted: 6th July 2012 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Frugality, Money, Self-SufficiencyI find the entire paradigm of Television to be disturbing. Think about it, we have hundreds of millions of people across the country tuned in to a fixed number of channels. And we are all being BRAINWASHED! For every 2 minutes of actual shows being watched, we get a full minute of advertising which pushes [...]
We paid off 91K of debt in 12 months!
Posted: 15th June 2012 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Family, Frugality, Home Business, Money, Passive Income, RecessionAs some of you may know, one of the initial reasons that I started this blog was to vent some steam about my life as a debt slave. Our family’s huge pile of debt was divided between an underwater mortgage(my mistake) and several high-interest educational loans(my dear wife’s mistake). This debt was destroying my life [...]
Quick ways to save $1000 every month!
Posted: 24th May 2012 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Frugality, MoneyIf you’re reading this post, then you probably know that times are hard for many people in America. The economy is in the dumps and millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed. Supposedly, some 54% of people in my age group(18-35) are either working crappy part-time jobs or not working at all. So I’m definitely [...]
Improving your life with Optimism and Knowledge!
Posted: 11th May 2012 by ThrivingAdmistCollapse in Collapse, Money, Self-SufficiencyIt’s so easy to become depressed and angry these days. The Eurozone is once again embroiled in economic turbulence. Greece is in a state of chaos while Spain, Portugal, and Italy are all hanging on for dear life! Meanwhile, our country seems to slowing sinking under the pressures of war, government mismanagement, and [...]