Blogger Interview at My Mint
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Cap, of Stop Buying Crap, was interviwed this month at Mint’s blog.
Cap is one of the first PF bloggers I met online and he’s pretty interesting. He tells it like it is with his blog title.
He’s had a few thought provoking posts lately including asking us when did we start caring about personal finance and a follow up called Finding That Special Reason to Care about Your Finances.
Really good posts they are. Go check them out.
As for me, I started to care when I was 12 and applied for a scholarship at private school. Such are the burdens of immigrant children. It’s your job to grow up fast and learn how to navigate the system for your parents. It’s a long, slow, ice cold bath you take through out the financial aid process when you realize that a nice middle class income isn’t enough and you’re too green to know that the family accountant deliberately is making you look poor to the IRS. It’s very hard to swallow. Yes, I have a chip on my shoulder, but I’m proud of it. Now I make almost twice as much as was the reported income on that first tax return I saw. It gave me a life-long motivation to be successful. (Call it insecurity if you like, I don’t care. I’m really happy doing my job and making good money.)