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10 Questions with Planting our Pennies

April 6, 2013 by Mr. 1500 Days 17 Comments

Today is the second edition of a new periodic guest post series called 10 Questions and a Pizza Place. (The 1500’s are pizza fanatics.) We have a list of 17 questions we pose to fellow financial bloggers, and they are free to pick and choose 10 or answer all 17. Let us know if you would like to be featured in a future edition of 10 Questions.

Welcome PoPs!
Welcome PoPs!

Planting our Pennies is one of the first blogs we discovered after we started our blogging careers and we really enjoy it. Their posts are thoughtful, well written, and we share many of the same goals (Mr. PoP, if you ever get that NSX, I’d like a ride please).

Find Mr. and Mrs. PoP on the web, Twitter and facebook. I now turn today’s post over to the PoPs!

Tell me about your blog and why it’s great.

Mrs. PoP – Our blog is Planting Our Pennies, and we blog about Money, Happiness, and Kittens. What other explanation is needed as to why it’s great? We have kittens!

Mr. PoP – I think it’s great because it gives us a project to work on together. What would we be doing with our time otherwise?

 

What is the worst financial mistake you made?

Mrs – Ugh. Probably throwing good money after bad into a car that I loved dearly. When we finally listed the Mini Cooper for sale we had a stack of mechanic receipts in a file folder over an inch thick that went with her. I didn’t have the courage to add up the total that was spent on that car in the 4 years I owned her.

Mr – Not getting into enterprise sales until I was 28. If I had started out of college I could be almost retired by now.

 

What would you do if you inherited $1,000,000 (after taxes) today?

Mrs – New tile for the house. Maybe build an addition onto the house. Then pay for a lifetime supply of cleaning ladies to CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!

Mr – I’d buy an 1991 NSX. And a rolex. And I’d work out more. F*ck, I’m weird!

 

What kind of car do you drive?

Mrs – Miata.

Mr – Jeep. We challenge you to find two more perfect South Florida cars!

 

Who inspires you?

Mrs – My Gram and PopPop. They are truly the most caring people I’ve ever known.

Mr – Warren Buffet.

 

What is the best financial move you have made?

Mrs – marrying Mr. PoP.

Mr – marrying Mrs. PoP. Awwww!

 

What is your favorite place to vacation?

Mr & Mrs – What’s a vacation?

 

What’s your favorite tip for saving money?

Mrs – Stop caring what other people think.

Mr – Look at it not as a single action but a way of life.

 

What is your fondest memory?

Mrs – Working with my PopPop in his shed as a kid fiddling with every piece of mechanical trash he found in the dumpsters around the neighborhood and getting it working again.

Mr – Coming back from a year off of my college studies. I was invincible.

 

What are your biggest goals in life?

Mr – Enlightenment. [Mrs PoP – Don’t fault him for that, he was a philosophy major.]

Mrs – ??? [Mr. PoP – Don’t fault her for not knowing. She was a math major.]

 

If you could go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?

Mrs – Other people don’t always have your best interests at heart.

Mr – Learn more about mathematics and finance earlier in life.

 

What is your favorite movie?

Mrs – Love Actually, Up, Wall-E… really any movie that makes me want to laugh and cry.

Mr – Apocalypse Now, Directors Cut.

 

What advice would you give to a 24 year old, just out of college?

Mrs – Find someone who cares more for your happiness than you do.

Mr – Get into sales.

 

Mac or PC?

Mrs – Mac

Mr – Linux [Mrs. PoP – he wishes!]

 

What are your favorite personal finance websites?

Mrs – They change regularly, but the recent ones are Bankers Anonymous and Her Every Cent Counts

Mr – Early Retirement Extreme, Lacking Ambition

How could you resist this face?

 

Dogs or cats?

Mr & Mrs – No brainer. See question #1.

 

What is the worst personal finance mistake you see people making?

Mrs – Not knowing the difference between need and want.

Mr – Consumption.

 

What product or service epitomizes consumerism?

Mr – Cars.

Mrs – Backyard pools. And yet, we have both of these.

 

What is your favorite recipe?

Mrs – Anything that Mr. PoP eats that’s easily reproducible!

Mr – What’s a recipe?

 

What was your favorite job (or worst job)?

Mrs – I was the Easter Bunny in the mall in high school. At the time it was both the best and the worst job that I’d ever had. They pay was great ($15/hour for a high schooler!), but the suits were absolutely disgusting.

Mr – Worked at a Nike outlet when I was unemployed. That was the worst job ever.

 

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  1. Johnny Moneyseed says

    April 6, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    It’s nice to hear a little bit more about the PoPs, and their fascinating with cats 🙂 It seems like there’s some type of pattern forming here. It has something to do with finance blogger couples and being awesome.

    One thing I think I’m not seeing in this post. What about the PIZZA?!

    Reply
  2. Mrs PoP @ Planting Our Pennies says

    April 6, 2013 at 4:03 pm

    Thanks so much for hosting our answers, guys!

    And Johnny – we apologized to the 1500’s already, but I’ll do it publicly here. No pizza recommendation because we’re not pizza people. Hope we can all still be friends despite that. =).

    Reply
    • Johnny Moneyseed says

      April 6, 2013 at 8:35 pm

      Well I guess I’ll just have to do one of these 10Q’s&PP posts and name two pizza places then! It’s alright, I’m just going to classify you guys as possible aliens though.

      Reply
      • 1500 says

        April 7, 2013 at 3:12 am

        JM, yes, I didn’t want to come out and say it, but we’re waiting…

        Reply
    • 1500 says

      April 7, 2013 at 3:16 am

      I’ll give the PoPs a pass on this one. Pizza is definitely not healthy and the PoPs hail from the south.

      Now, if the PoPs said they had been from Chicago (the birthplace of Mr. 1500 and deep dish pizza), I would have been horrified.

      Reply
      • Mr. PoP says

        April 7, 2013 at 4:02 pm

        The first time I was in chicago I had a DD pizza, and loved it! Aren’t there places that will ship the pizza from chicago to your house? Now that I might spend some money on…

        Reply
  3. eemusings says

    April 7, 2013 at 2:47 am

    Ha, I think you BOTH have excellent taste in films!

    Reply
    • 1500 says

      April 7, 2013 at 3:12 am

      Right on. Apocalypse Now is just great.

      Reply
      • KC @ genxfinance says

        April 8, 2013 at 8:55 am

        My thoughts exactly. Apocalypse Now all time favorite too. Plus, we love Wall E.

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  4. Jacob@CashCowCouple says

    April 7, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    Loved the blog favorites, the consumerism question – car answer, and the Easter Bunny comment!

    Mr. Pop, why do you love sales so much?

    Reply
    • Mr. PoP says

      April 7, 2013 at 3:59 pm

      Its a big game, with a few, simple rules and very smart people who you play with, for, and against. It teaches you things about yourself, and demands that you sharpen your skills day after day, quarter after quarter. You can earn lots of money, or very little money. There are virtually no politics, no faking; either you hit your number or you don’t. I’m an introvert who never played team sports, and hates pressure, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forget the mornings when I wake up and know that I’ll either make or loose $10K by the end of that day.

      Reply
  5. Tony@WeOnlyDoThisOnce says

    April 8, 2013 at 12:21 pm

    Awesome questions and answers! Can’t wait until it’s my turn :).

    Reply
  6. AverageJoe says

    April 8, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    Cool interview! The crazy PoP blog is one of my favs, too. I loved sales for the direct response: if my customer didn’t like what I had, they wouldn’t buy and I wouldn’t get paid. There was no boss in the way to define my relationship.

    Reply
  7. Laurie @thefrugalfarmer says

    April 9, 2013 at 11:38 am

    Great post. :-). Love hearing all of these fun things about the PoPs!

    Reply
  8. 1500 says

    April 9, 2013 at 7:02 pm

    What happens if you fart in one? Did I just say that? Bad me, bad me!

    Reply
    • Mrs. Pop @ Planting Our Pennies says

      April 9, 2013 at 10:42 pm

      Never tested, but it would have to smell stronger than years of accumulated BO to really be noticeable. =)

      Reply
  9. Michael T. says

    May 2, 2013 at 2:24 am

    Wow, Mrs. Pop has excellent taste in financial websites! 🙂

    Reply

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