Tiptionary [antikvár]

mmmm I didn't actually set out to become a tip aficionado. But that's exactly what's happened since the day I began publishing Cheapskate Monthly newsletter and invited readers to share with me their best money- and time-saving tips. Three or four fascinating tips came pouring in those first few months (two or three more than I expected); and because they were great, I shared them with my Cheapskate Monthly readers. The more tips I published in subsequent months, the more readers responded with new and better tips. In time I began to go out of my way looking for tips and was amazed at how many turned up. I'm not sure if I was more attracted to the tips or the tips to me (sometimes I feel like a tip magnet), but the result is clear: I love tips because I can read a tip, digest it quickly, mentally file it for future use, move on to the next one, and never get bored. Before long, tips began arriving at my office faster than I could figure out what to do with them. I couldn't throw them away. And because of the way they arrived (and still do)—printed on napkins; buried in the recesses of long, detailed letters; salvaged on snippets torn from newspapers; phone, fax, and E-mail messages—I had a logistical challenge from the very start. I was able to stick with a simple filing system for about three days until I discovered a much easier method: Piling took hardly any time at all. And piles began to grow at an unprecedented rate into what I would eventually name Mt. Tip. 1