My grandparents used to go on for hours about how a candy bar only cost a nickel when they were kids. My parents, I think, paid a bit more for their sweets, but still under 50 cents. As a kid, I often wondered if that disconnect o...
Nobody in my family plays the lottery. I know some people’s mums play it religiously, but nobody in my family plays. Or if they do play, it’s only once in a blue moon, when the jackpot gets very, very high. If I ever b...
I’m not that good at hanging on to receipts. Well, I guess I should say that I don’t care about most of my receipts, but I am exceptionally good at hanging on to the ones that matter. Case in point: a couple of weekend...
I think, in many ways, we’ve become a nation of quantifiers. Apps and social networks make it easier than ever to quantify the daily minutiae of our lives. Now, more than ever, we can know exactly how many friends we have, h...
For many of us, our iPhone is a device that we use to track the minutiae of our everyday lives. Not only do we update Twitter and Facebook with what we ate for lunch or what we saw on our commute, but many of us are also constantl...
I have a friend who just got a promotion at work, and was trying to calculate how much his pay bump would end up netting him in terms of his annual pay. As someone who’s not exactly good at math, I’m always looking for...
