How to save money in plain English

I wonder how feasible is leelev’s way of saving money under the current financial crisis especially in the US.

The number of Moroccan people saving many in banks or throgh inssurance companies is significantly growing. This video helps understand the process:

Enjoy!

Choose who you are!

Does anyone identify with someone in this video?

Food for thought.

My emails

I spent more than one hour cleaning my Yahoo! inbox. It incredibly held more than 5000 emails received and 1280 sent. That seems a lot considering that I started Yahooing in 2005. I remember the 1st days, they didn’t automatically saved the sent emails. Now with more that 6000 emails I have either read (ah yes, I read all my emails!) or typed I feel I have a real treasure. My nightmare would be to loose it all or that someone gets my password…

I have used almost all famous email providers starting with caramail (now lycos) in the late nineties to the new Gmail with an invite. This latter offers incredible features to label instead of putting your emails in folders, archive your mail to make them disappear with a click rather than delete and if you need them later, you can still make a search to retrieve them. But I think I will still stick with Yahoo for now…

In the process of sorting out my stacks of mails, I invented folders like CPR05 for my SIG, Signups for the confirmation emails I get from the websites I subscribe to (200), MATE for the association related news, and another couple of folders for my work and trainings. Still, I had some 800 emails that were about notifications, newsletters that I don’t want today but I may need later. The problem was what should I name the folder containing these. Yahoo provides a fixed Spam folder that they automatically clean after a month and my 800 newsletters and notifications weren’t spam and I didn’t want to delete them.

Going through my daily read I stumbled upon on one my favourite blogs that talks about Bacn. The definition given is the following:

low-priority messages that you really want, but not right now: Facebook notifications, newsletters you signed up for, things like that.

There is even an official website for bacn.

Eureka !

I named my 800 emails bacn!