Comments on: Saving Money the Unconventional Way: 5 Tips for Building Your Savings http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/ Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:03:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: miranda http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-315116 miranda Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:04:57 +0000 http://www.yieldingwealth.com/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/#comment-315116 Thanks for stopping by, Rob! I agree that there are many people who do not contribute constructively to online discussions. But I do appreciate your fresh views of personal finance and saving money. Thanks for stopping by, Rob! I agree that there are many people who do not contribute constructively to online discussions. But I do appreciate your fresh views of personal finance and saving money.

]]> By: Rob Bennett http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-315662 Rob Bennett Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:57:45 +0000 http://www.yieldingwealth.com/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/#comment-315662 Miranda: This is Rob Bennett. Thanks much for noticing the article and posting your reactions. Thanks also to those who offered kind words in their comments. I am the person who discovered the analytical errors in the Old School safe-withdrawal-rate studies. These are the studies used by most financial planners to help us learn how to plan our retirements. There is a fellow who posted an Old School study at his web site who became very angry when we began discussing the errors in these studies at the Retire Early and Indexing discussion-board communities. There are of course many community members who contributed in a positive way and who objected in strong terms to the abusive posting: http://www.passionsaving.com/investing-discussion-boards.html The internet has both a wonderful side and an ugly side. My advice is that those of us trying to participate constructively focus on the positive and do what we can to protect our readers from the dark side. If you are interested in knowing more about the investing issues, please let me know. We have done some amazing work in this area. There are several calculators at my site that go a long way to making sense of the price crash that we are living through today. Take care, and best of luck with your site. Rob Miranda:

This is Rob Bennett. Thanks much for noticing the article and posting your reactions. Thanks also to those who offered kind words in their comments.

I am the person who discovered the analytical errors in the Old School safe-withdrawal-rate studies. These are the studies used by most financial planners to help us learn how to plan our retirements. There is a fellow who posted an Old School study at his web site who became very angry when we began discussing the errors in these studies at the Retire Early and Indexing discussion-board communities.

There are of course many community members who contributed in a positive way and who objected in strong terms to the abusive posting:

http://www.passionsaving.com/investing-discussion-boards.html

The internet has both a wonderful side and an ugly side. My advice is that those of us trying to participate constructively focus on the positive and do what we can to protect our readers from the dark side.

If you are interested in knowing more about the investing issues, please let me know. We have done some amazing work in this area. There are several calculators at my site that go a long way to making sense of the price crash that we are living through today.

Take care, and best of luck with your site.

Rob

]]> By: miranda http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-315123 miranda Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:29:33 +0000 http://www.yieldingwealth.com/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/#comment-315123 Interesting...However, the concepts he outlines here, I think, are quite valuable. Interesting…However, the concepts he outlines here, I think, are quite valuable.

]]> By: debunkhocus http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-315128 debunkhocus Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:16:40 +0000 http://www.yieldingwealth.com/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/#comment-315128 Google “Rob Bennett + Purcellville” or just go to these links: One of his sites: http://s162532268.onlinehome.us/Sewer/viewforum.php?f=1 A site that tracks and comments on his activities. He frequently participates as “Hocus”: http://www.s152957355.onlinehome.us/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl Google “Rob Bennett + Purcellville” or just go to these links:

One of his sites:
http://s162532268.onlinehome.us/Sewer/viewforum.php?f=1

A site that tracks and comments on his activities. He frequently participates as “Hocus”:
http://www.s152957355.onlinehome.us/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

]]> By: miranda http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-315713 miranda Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:23:08 +0000 http://www.yieldingwealth.com/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/#comment-315713 Thanks, Jean! I think that, now more than ever in my (short) lifetime, the basics are necessary. Thanks, Jean! I think that, now more than ever in my (short) lifetime, the basics are necessary.

]]> By: Jean Murray http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-314941 Jean Murray Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:24:16 +0000 http://www.yieldingwealth.com/saving-money-the-unconventional-way-5-tips-for-building-your-savings/#comment-314941 These are great concepts, Miranda. They are actually very basic economics: 1. Opportunity cost - the value of a thing is the value of the thing you give up to get it, and 2. Utility - the "value proposition" - the values we assign to things. It's good to have someone remind us of the basics to keep us on track. These are great concepts, Miranda. They are actually very basic economics:
1. Opportunity cost – the value of a thing is the value of the thing you give up to get it, and
2. Utility – the “value proposition” – the values we assign to things.
It’s good to have someone remind us of the basics to keep us on track.

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