Comments on: The End-All, Be-All Savings Tip

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:59:39 +0000

Nah Jane, I think might have missed the point. They’re not mutually exclusive. Just because I use Facebook to find out some information doesn’t mean I don’t ever use my friends, or my VOICE, or learn from my neighbor about how the heck he gets his tomato plants to produce twice as much as mine did last year.

And half.com also leverages technology a bit…so does Quicken…

I was just trying to point out a use for those waste of time social media sites. Asking for tips and whatnot is one of those uses.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:47:04 +0000

In trying to decide whether to use your product, I have to say this post makes me think twice. Just because “everyone” uses it doesn’t make it valuable. i’ve been trying to figure out what’s the value of my Facebook acct, and the best people can come up with is finding old copies of a moronic movie?

???

Why not just walk next door and ASK someone? Like, see who has a garden in your neighborhood, and make a friend “in person”?? Or pick up the PHONE? Say Hello in your VOICE? Electronic “networks” are only useful if you sit at a screen all day and can’t find the time to make a human connection. (BTW, there are like 20 copies of pumping iron on half.com, what did you need facebook for???)

Technology is not a good per se. So I won’t be buying. I don’t want any phony bullshit with my zeros and ones, so I think I’ll stick with Quicken.

By: Wanda

Wanda — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:29:27 +0000

This sounds like a winner. I never thought of using it this way. And thanks for the Freecycle Network info as I am moving soon and have a lot of stuff to give away.

By: BudgetGalAngie

BudgetGalAngie — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:32:13 +0000

Great blog! I love how something as simple as social networking can help people save time and money. Often the obvious in life is overlooked. Thanks for the reminder.

By: Jeff Adams

Jeff Adams — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:02:06 +0000

Forget about crowdsourcing why is no one talking about Pumping Iron. From high school through college I must’ve seen that movie 50 times. Fantastic.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:31:52 +0000

@Liz,
Nah, it doesn’t have to take hours at all (though it could if you let it I suppose). It’s just another avenue you can use to get information from already trusted sources. It just depends on how you build out your network. It’s not just about dinking around on “the Internets” :)

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:09:27 +0000

@ Liz: You go, girlfriend! I just don’t get the attraction!

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:04:04 +0000

The very last thing I want to do after spending 10 hours of my day at work staring at a computer is to come home and do “social networking” for hours on end with “friends” I really don’t care about.

It’s bad enough that I have to spend the time I do in Quicken (COME ON YNAB 3!!!!) doing my budget – I say “no thanks” to the evening time stealers. I would rather pay a little more for things than to have the life sucked out of me by Twitter and Facebook.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:44:31 +0000

Nice post Jesse. In Amy Dacyczyn’s book “The Tightwad Gazette” she calls this “Putting out the word.” I’ll bet when she wrote it in the 80′s she never imagined how the internet could put the word out so fast and efficiently. :)

By: Epylar

Epylar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:42:45 +0000

Try Aardvark for quick answers to questions. I actually got my Google Wave invite on there.. seems like it fits with this tip pretty well.