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How the Gillette Razor Company Has Cost You More Than You Know…

02.24.2009 by Matt Jabs //

According to a past DFA Tip of the Week, my wife & I have stopped using paper products (with the exception of toilet paper) and switched to non-disposable products instead.

For example, instead of Kleenex, now we use handkerchiefs.  Instead of paper towels, we use washable microfiber towels (Sam’s Club sells a great 24 pack).  Instead of paper napkins, we busted into our stash of cloth napkins that we NEVER used.  All these changes have been a joy for us. Not only do we not miss the paper products, we found that we heavily prefer the cloth products!  The benefits are multi-fold, which you should use your imagination to discover.

Also, making this change caused me to challenge the entire disposable product industry.

Come to find out, this genius marketing idea of “disposable products” was invented by King Camp Gillette, the founder of The Gillette Company of razor fame.  From Wikipedia:

“Gillette realized that a profit could be made by selling an inexpensive razor and generating a market for disposable blades. This has been called The Razor and blades business model, or a “loss leader”, and has become a very common practice for a wide variety of products.”

Now again, use your imagination and you’ll undoubtedly begin to conjure up over 20 products you use in every day life that have sold you on this idea of “disposable products”.  Why?  So they can keep you coming back for more.  It’s the same concept as a service provider selling you a subscription instead of focusing on a one time service fee…scheduled & guaranteed return business (consider the swiffer mop & duster for example).

My wife & I are currently auditing our life for the brainwashing affect of this marketing idea, and trying to make a frugal return to the days of true recycling…not using disposable products!  I challenge you to do the same.  Work to rid your life of the brainwashing effect the marketing industry has had on us, and instead reevaluate how to be more frugal in every day situations.  Challenge the norm, don’t be afraid to stand alone in a thing if it be good, make responsible choices in all areas of your spending and you will undoubtedly see your a drastic reduction in your spending.

Read our DFA Tip of the Week series to learn about how to adopt more money saving, frugally based tips!

God bless.

Categories // Counsel, Spending Tags // blade, business, disposable, gillette, marketing, model, products, razor, reusable

Are You Paying Yourself?

01.05.2009 by Matt Jabs //

When it comes to saving money lately, my personal strategy leaves little to be desired.  Over the past few years I have failed to save ANY money.  On the contrary, I have actually been slowly slipping into renewed credit card debt.  Sure, I may not have as much credit card debt as a lot of people, or even as much as the average person; but to me, any credit card debt is too much.

Well I’m fed up.  I’m done paying credit card companies interest money while not paying myself anything.  What am I going to do about it?  Starting immediately, I’m going to have my employer direct deposit $100 into my savings account every month.  Sounds simple right?  Well…it is simple, and I’m a little upset at myself for not doing it sooner.  However, I refuse to dwell on the fact that I haven’t done it in the past and am excited about doing it from here on out.

I’m actually starting a new blog to this end as well.  I will not reveal what exactly it is yet because I’m not completely finished setting it up, but I am very excited about it and will announce it to you all soon.

Maybe it’s time for you to start paying yourself too?

Categories // Counsel, Debt, Investing Tags // Finances, money, pay yourself, save

Hello world!

01.02.2009 by Matt Jabs //

Greetings & welcome to DebtFreeAdventure.com.

I’m really excited to start this blog!  The potential for DebtFreeAdventure to change my life and the lives of others, is tremendous and intoxicating.  The premise is simple; I have debt, and I want to get rid of it, and I want to use biblical principles to do it.  I am starting DebtFreeAdventure.com not only for the benefit of me & my family, but also for YOU.  Journaling intimate experiences, successes, and failures on my road to debt free living will help me stay the course and ultimately help outline a path for future readers for years to come.

I do hope you enjoy my writings, and pray the information contained herein will benefit you in some way.  Thank you for reading, and please…come back often!

My prayer for this website is that the Lord will lead me in my efforts, will work through me to help my family and my readers, and will bless my efforts fruitfully; for without his blessing all is vain.

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