TYPE SIX: Cherry Pickers Well versed in all grocery flyers, rewards club points programs and loyalty clubs, these birds like a big score. Even if it’s more rotting fruit, toilet paper and lentils? These birds have incredible stories of how they only paid $10 for a big bag of fresh fish that cost $100. Then you never see them again? Spendit.com Urge-2-Splurge Score 25% ♦♦◊◊◊◊◊ ... [more]
Spendito #7: Are you a Money Monk?
TYPE SEVEN: The Money Monks If they opened their wallets, only moths would fly out! They don’t carry cash, or they might Spend it! Of all the different birds out there, non-spending is close to a religion with this flock. They believe that a penny earned is a penny saved — for a rainy day. But they still wouldn’t go anywhere on a rainy day! Every birdy knows someone (their parents?) who is like this. Spendit.com Urge-2-Splurge Score 10% ♦◊◊◊◊◊◊ ... [more]
How we spend it today: Who’s watching our watchers?
Used to be a penny saved, was a penny earned. Now that we don't really have pennies what happens? Is anything saved anymore... or do we just spend it more and more until our credit runs out? Has everyone's spending gone wildly out of control today? Now millions are not enough anymore. In fact millionaires are a dime a dozen these days... Now you need to be a Billionaire! It used to be you had a million, you would good - be set for life. Not if you planned to live in a city like ... [more]