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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 24, 2016, 04:06:59 pm ---Yes, that's the one. So, Mr. Money Mustache lives in Longmont, which is a little farther north than where LauraGigs and Offline Chuck live, and south of where Monica and Dave used to live. Scanning the article I can see that I'm a bit of a Mustachian myself even though I've never heard of this guy. I have been known even to scrub my floor with a sponge and sweep it with a whiskbroom and dustpan!
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Sometimes the best way to get a floor clean is to get down on your hands and knees and scrub it. I don't see anything particularly Mustachian about that--except that he wouldn't buy his wife a mop. She must love him very much. He comes across to me as a fanatic, and people who are fanatics about anything can be difficult to live with.
Since I live in the very heart of a city that was surveyed and laid out 200 years before the automobile was invented, I expect he would approve of the fact that i don't have an automobile. On the other hand, I shudder to think what he would say about some other things about my lifestyle. (Even though I've had a lot of fun collecting model trains over the past 15 years, I'm presently worrying over the amount of money I've spend on them, money that could have been saved for retirement.)
Perhaps somewhere more appropriate than The New Yorker thread, somebody could explain to me how you get paid for blogging? I get that it's related to how many unique hits your blog gets in a given period--I guess usually a month--but who pays you? ???
Front-Ranger:
Your advertisers pay you. There are ads on the side and sometimes on the banner or in between paragraphs. We have them on BetterMost too. The advertisers pay a certain amount depending on how many subscribers or viewers you have.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 28, 2016, 07:32:37 pm ---Your advertisers pay you. There are ads on the side and sometimes on the banner or in between paragraphs. We have them on BetterMost too. The advertisers pay a certain amount depending on how many subscribers or viewers you have.
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Yes, of course. I left that out of my last post. But it still seems like there is a missing step in there somewhere.
Front-Ranger:
From the article I was under the impression that Mr. MM didn't want to buy a mop because he thought it was a waste of space. I hardly ever drag out my mop, bucket and big jug of ammonia myself and I almost agree with him. Over the years I've collected a lot of cast off cleaning equipment and supplies. It seems that people start thinking about cleaning up and the first step is to buy a lot of supplies. I also have at least three vacuum cleaners. People buy replacement vacuums when theirs just need a small repair or they can't find the right size bags for them. I've gotten handy over the years and can make do with other people's castoffs.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 29, 2016, 10:48:51 am ---From the article I was under the impression that Mr. MM didn't want to buy a mop because he thought it was a waste of space.
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That is what it said, but unless you're talking one of those big, industrial-size mops, with a bucket equipped with a wringer, how much space does a mop occupy?
And still sometimes the best way to get a floor clean is to get down on your hands and knees and scrub it. I'm a horrible housekeeper and even I know that.
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 29, 2016, 10:48:51 am ---People buy replacement vacuums when theirs just need a small repair or they can't find the right size bags for them.
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I've never had trouble finding bags, but finding someone who can repair a vacuum cleaner can be another story. Same goes for men's electric shavers, btw. And sometimes when you do find someone who can do repairs, it costs almost as much as a new item. Around here, you can almost--not quite, but almost--buy a new pair of shoes for the price of having new heels and half-soles applied to a pair of shoes you already own. :(
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