Amish Money Secrets

I just saw this article on Vanguard, it's a good read and worth further investigation. Here is the quote that caught my eye skimming it...

  • First, there's Amos Miller, a 45-year-old Amish farmer, who managed to save $400,000 for a down payment on a farm. Amos and his wife Fern managed to save that much while raising their family—of 14 children.      
  • Next, consider the experience of Bill O'Brien, a local banker who has issued $225 million in loans (mainly for real estate purchases) to Amish families over a 20-year career. How many of these loans have resulted in a loss for the bank? Zero. And he can count on one hand the number of Amish borrowers who have ever asked him for a loan extension or modification.

Read more HERE and check out the book Secrets of the Amish: Finding True Abundance in Simplicity, Sharing and Saving

This is why I love my job...

"The left hand side refrigerator has apparently come to life and decided that it no longer wants to keep your lunches cold. Thanks to Skynet, it has switched itself to defrost mode as part of a larger plan to eliminate humanity through the allowance of salmonella growth. If you have your lunch in it, you may want to move it to the obedient, non-sentient unit on the right. You may want to keep an eye on the microwave while you are in there."

I have decided to blog more.

So I have decided to blog moreand to do this I'm going to employee speech to text software. I really think it will help me post more because I won't actually have to type itI can just speak naturally and have a normal conversation with myself if that in fact is normal. So expect to see more from me in the days to come, well and I guess weeks and months and years.

So that being said I'll actually have to find some stuff to talk about. For now I have to say is that I'm probably not going to make Pennsic. Which kind of sucks as this always seems to happen. This year it happens to be because truck repairs as it stands I don't think my truck is up to the drive there and back. The money I'd be using to go is what I need to repair the truck. So as always maybe next year.

If you read this post take a minute to, and let me know I know people view the pages and I know I have subscribers that come but I don't really have any clue who regularly reads my blog. That being said expect to hear from me soon.

Oh, th3j35t3r stay frosty if you read this I'm not sure that you do.