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The Business of Celebrations

22 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

My youngest daughter is graduating from high school today and into full adulthood by all American standards. The entire event will cost me a bit over a cool $1,000 USD, and that's considered extremely modest by most comparisons. Some families are spe...

Recyling Gadgets Proactively

29 May 2023 4 minute read 1 comment WinterYeti

How many tech gadgets do you have in your home desk drawer, closet or garage? My guess is at least 10 to 20 items if you've been around in popular tech for at least the last 10 years. The problem is, the tech becomes useless very quickly, maybe withi...

Create > Consume

8 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments MoneyCanWorkForYou

We Are Living in an Economy of Attention Photo by Tim Mossholder from Pexels Economy of Attention You can’t possibly go through a day without someone trying to sell you something. Unless you are a monk living on a mountain top or in a forest seclude...

What's your Bitcoin allocation?

16 Nov 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Kovichni

Many people check the BTC dominance over the rest of the Crypto market to help them decide what steps to take next, but do you also check if Bitcoin is dominant in your Crypto portfolio i.e. how much percent of your total Crypto investment is allocat...

Exciting New Project: a 1964 Multitool Restoration

16 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments Groonie

On ebay Kleinanzeigen, the German equivalent of Craigslist, I found a METABO „Multitool System“, a product which essentially claimed to be an entire workshop that can fit into a suitcase. They got amazingly close to that ideal back then, by producing...

Radical Declutter : Streamline your Life

5 Apr 2020 3 minute read 2 comments Jaemoney

Introduction Modern day consumerism has had the unfortunate effect of straddling all of us with unnecessary stuff. We now have masses of stuff that we don’t need, that’s outdated, out of vogue and just plain useless. This is a pity because it actuall...