Help Me Write The Money Manifesto
No wrong answers on this questionnaire
I’m planning out a short manifesto to outline my philosophy on money.
I’ve already written a very brief outline on a scrap of paper and have been toying around with the idea for almost a week now.
I’m liking the idea more every day.
If I’m going to take the time to do this, I want it to be fore you. There’s no reason to write this thing if it’s just to say I did it.
So, as I plan out the future of the manifesto, I want to do it with your input. I’m going to throw up a few questions and I want you to answer them in the comments.
Answer truthfully and as detailed as you’d like. I’ll take everything you say into consideration.
- Does this manifesto sound like something that you’re interested in?
- Do you prefer long (100+ pages) or short (20–50 page) online manifestos?
- How interested would you be in learning a simple method for making financial decisions?
- How do you view money? Blessing, curse, tool, something else?
- Do you consider yourself a money nerd, a free-spirited spender, or something in between?
- Do you love or hate spreadsheets?
- What’s the most confusing thing about money?
- What would you like to see talked about in the money manifesto?
- What’s funnier: a man getting hit in the gonads by a football or a skater falling off his board while grinding and hitting his gonads on a pole?
Thanks for your help!
Brandon (132)
Loren Pinilis (109)
Mike Luna (103)
ixnayonthetimmay (83)
Dustin (78)
moe (63)
Don Sartain (59)
Pastor Matt (36)
JeniferR (30)
Adam (20)
1. I would be interested.
2. It should be as long as you need to get your points across. I do read slowly, though, so shorter is easier for me personally.
3. Tell me more!
4. Money is a tool and shouldn’t control your life, one way or the other.
5. Hard to say, since I haven’t had a real job in years. Probably more free spending, but I rarely have the money to spend freely.
6. Spreadsheets are boring.
7. Investing remains a mystery to me. Where is the best place to invest? What are my options? That type of stuff.
8. Like I said, I lack investing know-how. Of course, you know a lot more about money management theory than I do, so whatever you’ve got can probably be useful.
9. Gonads on a pole.
Mike Luna recently posted..Pressin’ On
1. Sure, why not?
2. For free, short. For pay, longer. (Though I’m much less likely to buy unless I’m REALLY interested in it.)
3. Why not?
4. I view money as something entrusted to me to steward. (Probably not a surprise on that one, haha)
5. Practical. I hate the tedium of entering receipts (my wife does that), but I’m pretty frugal.
6. They help me think about some things better. I love them for making decisions. Day to day managing of them — I’d rather drive an ice pick through my eye.
7. Health insurance.
8. I don’t know. A manifesto to me sounds like something that would be more inspirational and general than how-to. But that’s just me.
9. Totally the skater.
Loren Pinilis recently posted..Even Your Smallest Actions Matter
A Manifesto, eh? Maybe it can be titled A Capitalist Manifesto. I’m sure that’s never been thought of before .
I will address only some of the points.
I would be interested in reading something like this. For the breadth of scope you seem to have in mind, I think a longer amount of text should be written, but I guess it just comes down to the scope. (Perhaps offer some short manifesto sections online and then compile them together into a single long one after getting feedback?)
To me, money is a tool; a means to an end. Whether one sees it as a blessing or curse depends ultimately on how one wields this tool; a knife or a car can be a blessing or a curse in the same way.
I love spreadsheets, but I’m a nerd so what can I say? As for ideas in the manifesto, I’d like to see encouraging real-world examples of how whatever method it is you’re teaching can work for regular people. Mix the math in with anecdotes and use that to give people encouragement! Interview friends, family and business partners.
Oh and for the last point, hands down: