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Affording Housing
The topic came up again. How can working people afford housing? I’ve always been aware of the choices too many people must make to find a place to live. Going to school (Virginia Tech) next to Appalachia will do that. … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, community, housing, LGBTQ, real estate, real estate broker, Sno-Isle, Tiny Houses, Whidbey Island
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Balancing Porsches Kias And Philanthropy
Vroom! Roar! That’s not the sound of my truck. That’s the sound of the Porsche 911 that leapt up the highway as I took the right turn into the office parking lot. My guess is that the driver of the … Continue reading
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Tagged aerospace engineering, Charity, frugal, frugality, personal finance, philanthropy, real estate, Tiny Houses
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Tiny Houses And New Old Ideas
Wow! Someone mailed me an actual letter, and it isn’t even Christmas. The someone (Steve Smolinsky, ace EOS consultant, and an excellent candidate to advise the US Postal Service on how to improve), sent me a real world clipping from … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby Boom, Cold War, consulting, Cultus Bay, Curbed, entrepreneur, Freeland, frugal, frugality, housing, Langley, Olympic Mountains, personal finance, Puget Sound, Simple Living, Steve Smolinsky, sustainability, Tiny Houses, USPS, Whidbey
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Weirdnesses Approaching
As if the world wasn’t weird enough, it’s getting weirder. Sometimes that’s a good thing. Luckily, humans evolved to be adaptable, and that adaptability is being tested. The following is a Friday night random list of shifts, changes, and trends … Continue reading
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Tagged Airplane design, artifical intelligence, Atomic Age, auto autos, automation, autonomous, aviation, bitcoin, blockchain, Cascades, coal, commodities, decentralized, driveless cars, driverless vehicles, earthquakes, fossil fuels, frugal, frugality, gas, graphene, high frequency trading, housing, inflation, infrastructure, investing, invisibility, minimalism, oil, personal finance, power, renewable energy, renewables, Simple Living, solar, Tiny Houses, trends, tsunami, wind
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A Lot Of Bland Versus A Bit Of Awesome
Frugal is mistaken for cheap. Frugal is realizing that a bit of awesome is much better than a lot of bland, and costs a lot less too. Tiny houses are getting busy. They were ignored, and then laughed at, and … Continue reading
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Tagged frugal, frugality, housing, investing, jobs, Langley, mortgage, personal finance, Simple Living, Tiny Houses, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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Things To Look Forward To In 2015
2014 was better than 2013. 2015 has to be better than 2014. While that may be a personal wish, it is also a global one because some things continued to get worse in some topics while good news came in … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, cars, decentralized, economy, employment, frugal, frugality, graphene, Great Depression, Great Recession, health care, healthcare, housing, investing, jobs, markets, minimalism, ObamaCare, personal finance, Simple Living, solar, stocks, Tiny Houses, transportation, unemployment, war
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Tiny House Winners
Buying the biggest house you can afford for your first house makes as much sense as learning how to run by starting with a 100 mile race. Yes, it might work, but there’s a good chance you’ll hurt yourself. What … Continue reading
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Tagged frugal, frugality, housing, investing, minimalism, minimalist, mortgage, personal finance, real estate, Simple Living, stocks, Tiny Houses, walk away, wealth
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Reasons For Optimism October 2014
Overall, I’m optimistic. Got problems? Same here. I need to find additional work. My house, car, and self are requesting repairs. Yet, I’m optimistic. One friend calls it the Trimbath Sanguinity. I also like the term apocaloptimist. There’s a crisis … Continue reading
Trends Shifting Stalwarts
Conventional wisdom held that investing in the stalwarts, the old blue chips, was the way to safely invest. Dull but successful. The market continues to hit new highs, mostly through the action of the biggest companies, that are more a … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, banking, bitcoin, climate change, cryptocurrencies, debt, decentralized, futurist, GERN, GIG, housing, investing, millennials, mortgage, MVIS, off the grid, off-grid, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, personal finance, Retirement, RGSE, singularity, stocks, tiny house, Tiny Houses, urbanization
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