Woman Goes 24 Hours Without Spending Any Money - so proud she writes an article!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexa-von-tobel/financial-challenge-go-a_b_566492.html

She should just get herself and her friends addicted to MMORPGs. Then she'd never have to go out.

Good god, the trivial, meaningless bullshit some people obsess about in their daily lives.

Fucking yuppie princess, congratulating herself on not spending $30 on takeout for dinner. Do something useful with your life and assassinate Billy Joel, you tedious bitch.

Fuck.

You know, I even go three or four days in a row without spending any money.

In fact, I do that MOST weeks.

All she did was not actually pay on that day for any of the goods and services she consumed on that day. That is a long way from being self-sufficient for a day.

If that's all there is to it, I go a lot of days without spending any money.

If I pack a lunch and don't go anywhere besides work for the day, then I meet this woman's monumental goal 3-5 days a week.

FAIL!!!!!​

Why would anyone get his knickers in a twist over a lame puff piece on a random blog at the Huffington Post? Do you have any idea how ridiculously easy it is to start a blog on the Huffington Post? There are thousands upon thousands of them. It's like opening a trekbbs account. This thread is a lame cry about the fact that someone, somewhere on the internet, said something the original poster didn't like. Big fucking deal. This thread is particularly lame Gray Room material, not Red Room material.

Why did she bother writing such a long article just in order to say: "I am a loser who doesn't have a clue about how life works?"

And people complain that I write long posts...

Actually, I think it's a very intresting premise and worth trying... As I often can spend up to and over $100/day and often have nothing to show for it. Just filling my gas tank can run me $40-$50 nowadays. Stop for a bagel and coffee, a turkey on whole wheat sandwich for lunch, drive home to find out that I forgot to take a pack of chiken breast out of the freezer to thaw and the next thing you know, I'm ordering for the family for dinner.


I don't think it can be done in an absolute sense. I thin that's kind of sad, actually. As Async pointed out, all she did was move expenses around a bit. If she kept it up, sooner or later, she'd run out of Penne and Vodka Sauce... and coffee. ... and the batteries on her alarm clock would give out... If she didn't have it plugged in an outlet that is.

I think she's on to something, but her idea of the scope of what she was trying to do was a little shallow, sad to say.

All that she's done is cut out unnecessary spending. Who doesn't do that from time to time, especially when you're a bit short before pay day?

Boy, does she ever come off as a Spoiled Fucking Princess! "Look at me, I didn't buy any $4 lattes today! Woo-hoo!"

Let's see...

• She made coffee at home...I've been doing that for YEARS!
• She brown-bagged her lunch...I've been doing that since Kindergarten!
• She walked a short distance to work...if it's a walkable distance, WHY THE FUCK HASN'T SHE BEEN WALKING ALL THIS TIME!!!!
• She actually cooked a portion of a meal!

Actually, it wouldn't have surprised me a bit if, instead of doing a potluck w/ friends after work, she'd written the following:

Also...if she's allowed to use pre-purchased food & drink and not count it as "spending money", then why couldn't DRIVE to work, or use a pre-paid bus pass or something? Seems like a flaw in her accounting rules.

Bottom Line - throw this spoiled ass bitch and her "Sex and the City"-watching friends into the Rainforest with a knife, a roll of TP, a canteen of water, some matches and a compass, and if they make it back to civilization intact, then they can rejoin society!

Tsk. She's going about this all wrong. What she should have done is parlayed her fixation on minutiae into a regular column, called it something like Hints from Heloise, solicited helpful hints from readers, gotten syndication, a book deal, international celebrity...

Well that's the real trick, isn't it? I mean, it's made plenty of money for Rich Hall ("Sniglets"), Bill Engvall ("Here's your sign") and Jeff Foxworthy ("You might be a Redneck"). It's far easier to edit and compile suggestions than to come up w/ stuff on your own....

Wait, you can trade an appetizer platter for a hand job?

WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED OF THIS?!?!?

I guess you just haven't been HUNGRY enough, UA!

Yup. And clearly, based on what you posted in #11, we've all missed out on opportunities to parlay our private lives into big bucks.

Looks like I gave Skippy too much credit above.

The author runs a multi-million dollar start-up company offering personal financial advice to the non-wealthy. She made a post describing the kind of behavior she would advise others to engage in. This wasn't just any old random blog post somewhere on the internet at which Skippy took umbrage; it was a spam advertisement masquerading as a blog post.

Will Skippy now be telling us all about the next outrageous penis pill post that finds its way onto Free Republic?

If Captain Corruption can't help but moan and cry like a big, retarded baby everytime he reads my threads, maybe he shouldn't read them and keep me on ignore. But then, what else would he furiously finger himself over?



As for the article, it says she is the "Founder and CEO, LearnVest"

So I pop learnvest into Google....

Holy shit!

Man, this article would've been so much better if she'd instead seen what she could barter for blowjobs.

Meh, a noteworthy article would a be a woman who managed to shut the fuck up for a whole 24 hours

Why the fuck do you keep dragging Crosis into these things? The fucker doesn't even POST here anymore!

Impossible, everyone knows the reason women don't fart is because they let out all their hot air through talking.

She'd blow up within an hour.

women suck. literally and figuratively. quote me on it.

At a brunch at a friends house Sunday. Typical conversation between any two of the females: "Blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah." "Blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah." "Blahblahblah?" "Blahblahblah." "Blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah."

Typical conversation between any two of the guys: "How you doin?" "Good. You?" "Good." "You been fishin?" "Yep. How's the new job?" "Good."

Scorponok, frankly I think that you got owned by your buddy Captain Corruption. Judge Podgers has spoken IMHO.

My wife doesn't suck. Figuratively nor literally. And that sucks!

A woman going 24 hours without spending any money is an accomplishment IMHO.

That would be more than an accomplishment, that would be a miracle. I think a mass would be in order.

[?=Definition of "The Perfect Woman"]Deaf, dumb, blind, and her father owns a liquor store.[/?]

Well, you're gonna faint when you hear I haven't personally spent a dime since December.

A woman who owns a company teaching budgeting and she never realized she's save at least $50 a week walking or $20+ a week drinking coffee at home? That's kind of disheartening, a budget expert who can't budget.

What is the saddest part of all???

Of course it is...millions of people live like that! She must be from a wealthy family to be so disconnected.