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photo jakoblodwick: Tumblize.com will design a custom Tumblr theme for you for $999. I think that’s the right price. Dependable, hi-fi web design is scarce these days.  Cute. But frankly, I feel like purchasing a customized Tumblr theme for $999 is a ridiculous, unnecessary luxury (luxury isn’t even the right word; I need something much more trivializing) and that thousand dollars could be spent in so many more valuable ways. In fact, let’s discuss just a few quick, simple, hipster-approved methods you could spend that money much more effectively and meaningfully:  Microloaning— For all of you Tumbl-ers that love to propose “insightful” wyas to “fix” the domestic and global economies— make an actual difference. With that $999, you can provide loans to five or more individuals that need a jumpstart to change their entire lives. “Mboni is 28 years old and is married with 3 children, ages12, 4, and 1. She and her husband also take care of 1 other person, age 23. Mboni is a bedsheet seller; she started her business in 2006. Every day she works from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM at her business and can earn a monthly profit of about $35 from her sales. She now hopes for a loan to buy more bedsheets for her business.” Is your tumblr design really worth 28 months of human labor? Literacy- Spend as much money or as little as you want, and help children and adults improve their reading and writing skills and, possibly, their level of education. Your $999 can buy 83 copies of “Where the Wild Things Are.” If you’re not into the whole giving-your-money-away thing, you could also buy… an iPhone several tickets to a cruise in the caribbean twenty five expensive, yummy gift baskets for people you love 400 wedding invitation Or, if having a hottie-hot tumblr page is really one of your main priorities… you could take a class in web design, or hire a reasonably priced web designer/developer (plenty of college kids know what they’re doing and will do anything for money) to do the work for you. $999. Seriously? There are much better ways to self-promote (and much cheaper ways to spruce up your tumblr).

jakoblodwick:

Tumblize.com will design a custom Tumblr theme for you for $999.

I think that’s the right price. Dependable, hi-fi web design is scarce these days.

 Cute. But frankly, I feel like purchasing a customized Tumblr theme for $999 is a ridiculous, unnecessary luxury (luxury isn’t even the right word; I need something much more trivializing) and that thousand dollars could be spent in so many more valuable ways. In fact, let’s discuss just a few quick, simple, hipster-approved methods you could spend that money much more effectively and meaningfully:

  •  Microloaning— For all of you Tumbl-ers that love to propose “insightful” wyas to “fix” the domestic and global economies— make an actual difference. With that $999, you can provide loans to five or more individuals that need a jumpstart to change their entire lives.
    • “Mboni is 28 years old and is married with 3 children, ages12, 4, and 1. She and her husband also take care of 1 other person, age 23. Mboni is a bedsheet seller; she started her business in 2006. Every day she works from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM at her business and can earn a monthly profit of about $35 from her sales. She now hopes for a loan to buy more bedsheets for her business.”
    • Is your tumblr design really worth 28 months of human labor?
  • Literacy- Spend as much money or as little as you want, and help children and adults improve their reading and writing skills and, possibly, their level of education. Your $999 can buy 83 copies of “Where the Wild Things Are.”
  • If you’re not into the whole giving-your-money-away thing, you could also buy…
  • Or, if having a hottie-hot tumblr page is really one of your main priorities… you could take a class in web design, or hire a reasonably priced web designer/developer (plenty of college kids know what they’re doing and will do anything for money) to do the work for you.
$999. Seriously? There are much better ways to self-promote (and much cheaper ways to spruce up your tumblr).

1 year ago

May 6, 2008
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