If you’ve been following the site for the past 10 years, you’ll know that my update frequency rises and falls from year to year and season to season. Likewise, if you’re following my GitHub profile, you may have been wondering, “What’s Hunter Davis been up to these past few months?”.
This past week has been an interesting one. I made it through the entire week without purchasing anything, then splurged on some fast food this weekend. I am definitely feeling some mental push-back against my spending habits.
I considered titling this post many things. Ebay: 15 years of asshole buyers Paypal: Your game is up and it’s about damn time I’ll never get screwed by Paypal again! I’ll never get screwed by Ebay again! In the end,...
Q: When is a doughnut not a doughnut? A: When it costs 50$. Seriously though, my significant other and I enjoy the occasional trip to Baskin Robbins and/or Dunkin Donuts. Last night was one such an occasion. While the ice...
During the first week in May, I considered myself quite thrifty. I bought a used magnifying glass from a thrift store, along with an ancient pair of studio headphones I plan to refurbish. Neither are produced by companies that still exist. Having not made a corporate purchase since the 1st, I was feeling fairly economical. On May 6th, that all changed.
Though it was a couple days before the official kick-off, I went ahead and started the investing week early. For the first time, starting Monday I followed the ‘Only Pay Yourself‘ investment and lifestyle strategy I created earlier this week. Any time I needed/wanted to make a purchase, I first had to acquire (at minimum) 1 stock from the company that makes/distributes/produces said product or service.
As of May 1st, 2013 I am undertaking a new financial endeavor. You can read all about it in this blog post. To summarize:
Long time readers will know that I had ads on the front page of this site for many years, but removed them a few years back in lieu of a ‘donations’ button. As I’ve not once received a donation (and frankly I miss the income); I’ve re-added the ads to the bottom of articles. That way you can get through the entirety of a front-page post (and half of a multi-part article) without being advertised to. Hopefully they are not too intrusive, and I think it strikes a fair balance.
I’ll be the first to admit it, I have not made the wisest of investments over the years. From cashing out my retirement to help fund my start-up, to keeping cash reserves in low-interest bearing accounts; over the years I’ve made about every investing mistake in the book. What I did invest, I invested cautiously. Mutual funds, index funds, foreign index funds. I gambled on some of the big internet companies that came up over the years, and sometimes it paid off, sometimes it didn’t. So I’m proposing an experiment, and I’ll be following through with it starting May 1st (coincidentally my birthday).
