This document discusses various strategies for saving money and becoming financially independent, including paying yourself first by saving 10% of your income, limiting impulse purchases by waiting 30 days before buying something unnecessary, and bringing lunch to work instead of eating out to save $2-5 per day. It also mentions trading ordinary items like a doorknob sculpture or KISS snow globe for opportunities like a recording contract or a role in a movie as part of a one-for-one trade challenge that resulted in acquiring a house in a year.

1. Do you want to be a millionaire? Paying yourself first Saving at least 10% of gross pay Give yourself the discount you saved. Gas ~ Shop n’ Save, Giant Eagle Food shopping ~ only buy weekly specials Check your bill at all stores before leaving: calculate the amount in your head before you go to the register

2. The Black Hole Fund

3. Acquire wealth and be free! http://www.csgnetwork.com/packyourlunchcalc.html http://www.savingadvice.com/tools/calculators/millionaire.php

4. The $2.00 lunch & waterGive yourself $20 week. Wendy’s McDonalds Taco Bell Five for five – share Long John’s Meatball hoagie – Subway/Sheetz Bag lunch – Add extra 5 dollar – fill up old mater bottles. Speaking of water…….

5. Never too late! Six kids Six through college One divorce – she got everything!

6. Now make some MONEY! Job ----- Fun ----Bliss Become self employed! What will the future be like?

10. CONTROL Impulse Spending in 30 days. Whenever you feel the urge to splurge — whether it’s for new shoes, a new videogame, or a new car — force yourself to stop. If you’re already holding the item, put it back. Leave the store. When you get home, take a piece of paper and write down the name of the item, the store where you found it, and the price. Also write down the date. Now post this note someplace obvious: a calendar, the fridge, a bulletin board. If, at the end of a month, the urge is still there, then consider purchasing it.

11. Are You Addicted to Spending: 1. Do you ever go shopping and leave the mall carrying nothing or only one item 2. When you shop with friends, do you feel the need to buy more? 3. Do you spend money you don’t have at the moment? 4. Do you make only the minimum payment on your credit card? 5. Do you research an expensive purchase (over $100) or do you buy the first thing you see.

12. The Simple Way

13. How much is ten pounds of change?

14. Grand Total -- $96.00

15. Covert it to paper

17. Current value > $20,000

19. One fish pen

20. Annie is a helpful Seattle-based ceramic sculptor who had the ideal object to trade: A doorknob. But not just any old doorknob, oh no, this l’il sculpted mofo looks like E.T.

21. One Coleman Stove

22. One Red Generator

23. Bud Sign and spray painted keg

24. One ski-mobile

25. One trip to Yahk I was interviewed by George Stroumboulopoulos on The Hour – a national TV program in Canada. George asked me, quite succinctly, if there was anywhere in the world I wouldn't go to make the trade. I responded. “I will go anywhere in the world except for Yahk, British Columbia.”

26. One cube van

27. Junk to Genius Hybrid

28. One recording contract

29. One year in Phoenix One year free rent in the heart of downtown Phoenix. (If needed, the apartment can also come fully furnished.) -roundtrip airfare for two from any major airport in North America. Features: Live right in the heart of downtown Phoenix. Short walk to Roosevelt Arts District, Major Arts and Entertainment Facilities, Sports Arenas, ASU Downtown Campus, the Capitol, etc. 1BR, 1Bath, historic bungalow style duplex with 9 foot ceilings, oak floors, living room with fireplace, separate dining room, new kitchen, laundry room. 700 square feet. I can throw in four third-row tickets to an AZ Diamondbacks game, which is walking distance to the recipients new home. Here's the house:

30. One afternoon with Alice Cooper

31. One KISS snow globe

32. Yes, that's right, I traded one KISS snow globe with Corbin Bernsen for one role in a movie. Now, I'm sure the first question on your mind is "Why would Corbin Bernsen trade a role in a film for a snow globe? A KISS snow globe." Well, Corbin happens to be arguably one of the biggest snow globe collectors on the planet.

33. 503 Main StreetKipling Saskatchewan Canada. One red paperclip….one house …one year!