Snowflake Tip Of The Week: Gaining Popularity
May 7, 2008 Author: paidtwice | Filed under: Tip Of The WeekToday’s tip is less of a tip and more showing snowflaking going mainstream. In the past few days, three “high profile” blogs mentioned snowflaking in one of their posts, either offhandedly or building their own spin into it. Check out these spinoffs and continuations of the snowflaking concept:
- Lazy Man and Money: Snowforting - Snowflaking the Emergency Fund
- Brip Blap: Wealthstreaming - Snowflaking Income
- Five Cent Nickel: Micropayments
Vive le Revolution! Snowflaking will be in the dictionary before we know it and will be a word everyone just knows the meaning of. 
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7 Responses for "Snowflake Tip Of The Week: Gaining Popularity"
I’m not high profile, but i’ve recently mentioned snowflaking too!
http://money-watch.co.uk/3964/snowballing-snowflaking-debt
To be fair, my mention of “snowflaking” was in a post talking about NCN’s ideas regarding making micropayments. He was doing that (and writing about it) well before anyone ever thought to call it “snowflaking,” yet he gets virtually no credit for the idea.
You could almost say there’s something of a ‘revolution’ underway!
And I entered the carnival, too 
Steve
@fcn - I actually first learned about snowflaking from an i-village messageboard that has been practicing snowflaking for several years now, that is cited in my snowflaking primer. I don’t claim to have created it, or have come up with the name - I just talk about it an awful lot because I’m infatuated with it. NCN is certainly a great example of someone who put the concept of micropayments to debt to great use in eliminating his own, and I’m also an enthusiastic supporter of his
Interesting. I should hang out at iVillage more often.
Did they call it snowflaking over there? Or did you come up with the name? It’s certainly clever. Guess I need to re-read the primer!
Hah! I guess I never read to the very end of that post.
When i first started blogging, I used to just randomly say “snowflaking” thinking everyone knew what I meant. Since I had been exposed to it on the iVillage board (and I don’t know if they invented the term but that’s as far as I can trace it) I thought it was some common terminology that everyone knew.
And people would respond to my posts with “Huh?” and “What is snowflaking?”
So I wrote the snowflaking primer to explain what I was talking about. I didn’t know it would catch on so well.
And it’s snowballed, heh heh, from there. I didn’t invent the term or the concept, I just helped to popularize it - well, as much as anything is popularized within the confines of the personal finance blogosphere.
I hope someday to see it in the dictionary.
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