http://mundismoney.com Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:35:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mundismoney.com/archives/1773 http://mundismoney.com/archives/1773#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:27:24 +0000 Jerry http://mundismoney.com/?p=1773 Get Rich Slowly this morning.

You might well want to read it. You can do that either by clicking here or on the the name of the site in the paragraph above.

(And why wouldn't you? It works!)

Enjoy!

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Here is how I replied:

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One common characteristic of debtors and underearners is that they delay endlessly filing for reimbursements to which they're entitled, from insurance companies, employers, clients, and just about anyone else.

They can have literally thousands of dollars worth of these things backed up, sometimes for years.

A variation on this is a reluctance to question charges from a vendor or service provider they think might be wrong.

I don’t have a problem filing for reimbursements myself (though I did once), but my first response to being billed for something I think I might not owe is still to file the bill away and tell myself I’ll get to it later. Or even to just go ahead and pay it assuming I owe it or imagining that I’ll get around to disputing it later.

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Thank you, Helena!

(That book coach—that’d be me.)

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You can read what J.D. Roth—the founder of Get Rich Slowly—thinks of the book in his 2009 review of it by clicking on the appropriate link in the full post.

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Here’s a simple technique to help you keep the amount you spend on gift-buying manageable (sane). First, determine just how much you can reasonably spend on gifts this holiday—the total amount. (The key word here is reasonably.) Then:

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Thanksgiving. Well, the obvious: In addition to everything else I have to be thankful for and which I like everyone else too often fail to be actively conscious of, from my two sons to the skylight at the top of the stairs of the modest duplex in Greenwich Village in which I live, down to the very fact that I am alive (what are the odds of that having happened in the vastness of the Universe?), I’m thankful that I don’t have a penny’s worth of unsecured debt in my life.

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Well, today, Nikko. And thank you for the prompt. I got distracted by practicing what I preach (more about that in later posts) and became neglectful here—which is the one thing I didn’t want to happen when I created this site. Mea culpa. And my apologies.

But here I am again, and plan to be on a regular basis.

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Start with How to Get out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously (if debt is any kind of problem or source of discomfort for you) and use that as your foundation book. If debt isn’t much a problem for you, then pick another book from the list, the one that speaks the most directly to you, and use it as your foundation book.

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Some of the airfare was paid in advance, as was my hotel bill. But I covered ground transportation and part of the airfare out of pocket, to be reimbursed at the end of the conference. These came to a few hundred dollars. The coordinator was ready to reimburse me on the spot, but I told her I didn’t know the exact amount, the receipts were in my already packed bag, and that I would make a PDF copy of them when I got back home and send it out to her as an email attachment.

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