Automating My Life

Over the last 5 or 6 years I’ve been reading Ramit Sethi’s blog I Will Teach You to Be Rich, and from here I’ve gained a lot of useful information. I bought his book of the same title in June and am halfway through it.

I am excited now to finally have a job and be earning money. I won’t be getting a full paycheck in November since I’ve only worked for half a month, but my first full check comes just a month after that on my birthday, December 10th.

I plan on transferring over about $1000 a month from my Korean bank to my bank account back home, at which point I will have automatic transfers set up to move the money around with no effort on my part once the money has been transferred. After this I will set up several sub-savings accounts for perhaps such things as a car, a new computer, maybe a trip home, and also a an IRA retirement account. I am very excited to finally have the chance to save my money after such a long time of having no income at all.

Tonight I rediscovered Alice, an automation site that allows you to list the groceries you need, and how often you need to buy them, and will then deliver them to you (free of charge) as often as you like. This not only saves you from making multiple trips to the grocery store, but also gets you the lowest prices possible for your items. I would love to try out this service when I back to the US, as it would make life without a car so much easier if I choose not to have one (and I very well may). I only have to make sure that I live in an apartment building with an office where my packages can go if I’m not around they are delivered.

If any of my readers in the US try out the service, please let me know what you think.