Category: Excuses

I was catching up on the pf blogosphere and read a few interesting frugal ideas.   The thing that caught my attention was the inordinate large amount of time these people seem to have on their hands.   Perhaps I live in a different world because I work for a giant corp that keeps me busy 50…

Well I’m trying to get back in the groove of blogging.  Quite honestly, I’ve been completely and totally swamped at work, at home and everywhere else.  For those of you that have a job in corporate America, you probably would agree that you’re working harder now (probably doing the work of two or three jobs)…

So I’m looking into the whole “frugal” lifestyle now that I’m unemployed. On Sunday I bought the newspaper and browsed through all the coupons to “save” a whole bunch of money when I went grocery shopping. As I flipped through the 30 or so pages of the coupon booklets I found ONE single coupon I…

I wrote this series exactly a year ago and I continue to observe people still use these excuses although I must say that with Barak Obama becoming the Democratic Presidential nominee and Hillary Clinton coming close, I’m not hearing excuse #6 that often these days.  I’ve counted down the top 10 excuses I’ve heard over…

The most often heard excuse I’ve heard over the years for peers not getting rich can be encompassed with just two words, “I’m Afraid.” It’s fairly simple and straight forward and I can say I’ve seen this over and over with peers in my personal life and currently in the at large PF Blog world…

I’ve counted down the top 10 excuses I’ve heard over the last ten years from friends, family, peers, and others as to why they’re not getting rich; I’m recapping them today as tomorrow I’ll be writing about the #1 excuse I’ve heard for not getting rich. 10. I don’t have a college degree. 9. I…

The second most often heard excuse I’ve heard over the past decade as to why my friends, peers and others aren’t getting rich is, “I don’t have the time or money to do x.” X represents many different things. For some, X means finishing a college degree plan, for others X means completing that certification…

Last week I wrote the fourth most often heard excuse for not getting rich was “it’s too complicated to run a business” and this provides a great lead in to the third most often heard excuse I’ve heard why my peers aren’t getting rich. The third excuse is best described as a sentiment that “government”…

Over the years, I’ve worked with some bloody brilliant people. Some so brilliant that I felt they had a potential million dollar idea on their hands. I once worked on a project with a person who had two great ideas for writing books and starting an “organic” business. I won’t detail either here because he…

The fifth most often heard excuse as to why a colleague or friend isn’t getting rich is the old, “I didn’t graduate from Ivy League School.” I say old because at one point in the history of the US, university access was strictly limited to an elite few. The term Ivy League itself refers to…