borman818,Money, Money, Money, February 6, 2009. ,via Flickr, Creative Commons License

The only thing that is on my mind as much as bananas and beer is money, that is so I can buy more bananas and beer hehe. Everyone seems to have tips such as going green to save green and logging your expenses like I discussed in my post, Loans will be the Debt of Me. Why is it so important, well because the average person is not financially secure. Most people have some kind of debt, not enough savings or some other financial worry that they are ill prepared for and I’m sure you are no different. If you are not one of those people, stop what you are doing right now – yes stop reading this post and Donate to a poor wittle monkey. hehe

The age old question for any traveler, ‘how should I pack my luggage.’ You are limited on what you can take with you due to weight and size restrictions not to mention the fact that they charge you for every single bag you own – who knows what’s next maybe for how many pockets you have stuffed with items. As the crafty penny saving traveler I’m sure you want to know how to get the most items into your bag without going over the weight or bursting the zipper – well fear not my furless friend for I am here to set the record straight.

Living in an instantaneous world we commonly look for instantaneous gratification in everything we do. If I’m thinking “I really don’t like Donald Trump’s hair piece it looks like he has a squirrel on his head” and I want you to know that, well I will just tweet it. Blogging is no different, people put up a blog and add some Google Adsense and look for advertisers to purchase ad space on their blog before they have their first post. I can’t blame the individual who aspires to be the next millionaire blogger who now makes thousands of dollars per tweet. Especially when for every individual giving true advice on the subject there are 300 times as many other blogs and adds selling the get rich quick scheme. Do those schemes even work, and how do you go about truly making a steady income from blogging?

Thanks to Twitter and its 140 character limit two things have become popular in this tworld: URL shorteners and tweet longer links. My focus is on the ones that shrink your www.IhaveALongSiteName.com/RandomDate/AndASuperLongPostTitle type URLs that extend itself almost to the character limit alone. In order to get interested tweeps to click on your link you need to add a description and some awesome #hashtags as well right? Hence the need for URL shorteners, or is there more to it?

Planning a round the world trip of just trying to get out of debt so you can relocate? Of course you are why else would you be reading this? Well my friend I am too, and in the giving spirit of sharing all my useless (or possibly useful) information that I’m flinging at you maybe we all can put a little more change in our pockets. I’m not boasting how you can instantly make $40K a year on your blog, no not here. This is more of how to be wise with what you have. I’m just trying to fess up to the fact that my loans outweigh what I make in 2 years at my current job yet I want to relocate out of the US in 2012. Also, I don’t make big bucks, I’ve had public teachers take pity on my paycheck, and if it wasn’t for loving what I do and the bonus free graduate degree I’d be job hunting. To be honest I really don’t do any of these right now, but I’m setting all of it out so I can complete some of my new year resolutions, and I’ll let you know how I end up in my goals.