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OOTS on Wealth

In this latest installment of our OOTS on Wealth series – in which we examine what it means and how much money it takes to feel and be wealthy in America – writer Ann C. Logue finds that $407,000 – that’s right, $407,000 – is enough to feel and be wealthy. At least it should be.

How much money does it take to feel and be rich in the United States? It all depends on where you live, and what you want out of life. For this next installment of OOTS on Wealth, OOTS spoke with Gary Owens, a Mississippi entrepreneur, about the three things a person needs for a happy [...]

Franklin Schneider, author of Canned: How I Lost Ten Jobs In Ten Years And Learned To Love Unemployment, is so good at not working he’s made a career of it. Here he writes about living on $8500 per year, and feeling like a king.

How much money does it take to feel and be rich in the United States? Not much, says Sandra Benally, a writer, paralegal and educator who has lived on Arizona reservations on $10,000 per year and felt, she says, “perfectly rich” while doing it. SB: About 10 years ago I lost my husband and I [...]

Steve Kamb is getting ready to embark on an 11-month, 35,000-mile trip to four continents in 2011. The flights for the round-the-world trip are costing Kamb, the founder of NerdFitness.com, a total of $418. How is Kamb able to fly the equivalent of 1.5 times the circumference of the globe for $418 you ask? By [...]

OOTS on Wealth – On Being Rich in New York City

by Juliette Fairley on January 28, 2011

In New York City feeling rich requires at least $300,000 – and $50,000 more to actually be rich. That’s because the cost of living index in New York is among the highest in the country at 204.7, according to the ACCRA Cost of Living Index published by the Council for Community and Economic Research (CCER).  [...]

OOTS on Wealth – Being Rich

by Eli Lehrer on January 27, 2011

Eli Lehrer was wealthy in college, he now realizes. This story is part 2 of the OOTS on Wealth series, examining what it means – and how much money it takes – to be and feel wealthy in America.

Stephan Smith, PR director for SeekingArrangement.com, billed as the Elite Sugar Daddy Dating site, recently spoke with OOTS News about how elite a sugar daddy has to be to seek an arrangement through his site. The surprising takeaway: it doesn’t take all that much.