Archive - Startup Sacrifices

Paying Taxes on Adsense Earnings

This year I find myself in a strange tax predicament.  Not only have I moved across the country (again), but I have earned more than $400 through Google AdSense.  According to the IRS, this fact makes me a business owner.  In the eyes of the law, my business of website content writing is a Sole [...]

Liquidation Progress

I listed the last of our earthly possessions on Craigslist last week as soon as I heard the news that we would need to be vacating the premises at the end of October.  We pretty much have this whole thing worked out like a fine-tuned machine at this point.  The first to go was an [...]

Kill Your TV

As most of you already know, before we moved to the new house, we did not have television for roughly a year or so. At first this was very disturbing to me, as I was still in the mindset of return from work, make dinner, become a zombie in front of the boob tube [...]

Chain Mail

We all get those inspirational emails, spouting of some of life’s most important mantras, followed by a YOU MUST FORWARD THIS OR YOU WILL DIE threat at the end. Most I read, but I honestly do not devote the same sort of brain capacity I would to reading from a website or book, simply [...]

WoW in Life

In an outside the box attempt to make me realize, and trust in, Butterfinger’s ability to create money out of thin air, he has recently taken to perfecting his skill as a jewel making craftsman in World of Warcraft. Before you read any further please try to understand that, despite any preconceived notions you [...]