About This Blog

My blog focuses on practical life tips, saving money, and how-to.  Being a first generation Italian-American and the son of immigrant parents, I have "being practical" in my blood, so I created Scordo.com to share my life experiences surrounding managing money, a home, and a life!  I'm not a professional money manager, regular on This Old House, or a trained psychotherapist, rather just a regular guy who writes about what he observes.  I take debt and savings very seriously and outside a mortgage our family carries no outstanding debt.  Saving money and living a frugal life does not require a degree in brain science, but it does require discipline, being practical, and not following others.

I look up to many people but I especially admire:

1. My Mother and Father - for their perseverance, craftiness, compassion, and the life lessons they've taught me thus far.
2. Warren Buffet - for his practical approach to making money
3. Noam Chomsky - for his intellect (both in linguistics/cognitive science and human rights/social thought)
   

I'm a decent tennis player, wine lover, and an amateur cook.  I also like watching films, fixing stuff, and reading.  I studied philosophy, linguistics, and psychology as an undergraduate and I'm still very interested in the field of cognitive science.  I've worked as a research assistant at an Ivy league university, an Internet start-up, an advertising agency, a German car company, and currently, a consumer product testing and advocacy organization.  My wife tells me I make sense on occasion, but please challenge my assertions and advice as I'm learning to make my way through life - just like you! 

Contact me: blog at scordo dot com

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Note: The views expressed herein are solely my own and should not be attributed to my employer in any way. This site is not maintained utilizing my employer's resources or on company time.