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saturn comments on Donating while in temporary debt (i.e. as a student) - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: ancientcampus 05 February 2013 10:50PM

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Comment author: saturn 06 February 2013 11:50:17PM 1 point [-]

You might be able to get the habit-forming effect without "wasting" $100 or $10 by deciding how much you would like to donate in terms of your income and debt, then creating a worksheet for yourself which you dutifully fill out every month, even when you know it will come out to $0.