Tag: finances
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On Publishing Your Salary
Kev Quirk observes that of folks who (like me) choose to share their salary online, there's likely to be a skew towards higher salaries. What can we do to better-contextualise that, I wonder?
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Shared Email Addresses
I've long mocked people who've opted to use email addresses that they share with their partner, or email addresses that are tied to their geographic location... but it turns out that I've been doing the same thing for years, albeit only with aliases.
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Household Finances Revisited
A year or two ago, my polyfamily and I switched from an "income-assessed" to a "same-residual" model for managing our household expenditures. If the former could be described as "socialism at home", the latter is more like "household Universal Basic Income".
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Compound interest and retirement
Compound interest and retirement (datagenetics.com)
Datagenetics
Spectacular example of why when saving (e.g. for a pension) it's often more important to save early than it is to save lots. So get saving! Even with an understanding of compound interest, these numbers can surprise you.
The only time better than today would have been yesterday, and … -
Supermarket "price match" deals are marketing genius
Almost five years ago, Sainsbury's supermarkets started giving you vouchers to the value of how much cheaper your shopping might have been elsewhere. That's a win for the consumer, right? Not even remotely, says Dan.
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Solar Power, part 2
Last year, Dan had solar panels installed on his roof. Four months on, he takes a look at how much money they're saving (and generating) for him and his tribe.
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How my poly family organises our finances (aka. means-assessed money management for multi-adult households). [x-post /r/polyamory]
Hi /r/polyfamilies. After much pestering by people who know us, I finally got around to writing about how my polycule and I organise our finances, and I thought that you might be interested to. The whole thing's described behind that link, but I didn't want to be seen to be gathering karma or self-promoting, … -
How my poly family organises our finances (aka. means-assessed money management for multi-adult households).
Hi /r/polyamory. After much pestering by people who know us, I finally got around to writing about how my polycule and I organise our finances, and I thought that you might be interested to. The whole thing's described behind that link, but I didn't want to be seen to be gathering karma or self-promoting, … -
Means-Assessed Household Finances (Socialism Begins At Home!)
For the last four years, Ruth, Dan, JTA, and those who've lived with them have used a system of means-assessment to fairly share the burden of their household finances. Now, Dan makes their model available to you to copy, use, and expand upon. Socialism begins at home.