[JohnFen]

I tithe. I don't mean that in a religious sense at all, but it's the way I pay my community back for that support. It's also not just in terms of money -- I count time volunteering and mentoring as part of tithing. It's also not repaying the people who helped me directly, but I don't think that's the important part. The way you pay them back is to "pay it forward" and do for others as those people have done for you.

[bongodongobob]

If it's not religious I don't know why you'd call it tithing, that's not what that word means. For example, I do communion, but not in the religious sense, I take shots and order a frozen pizza at the bar.

[JohnFen]

"Tithe" is not inherently a religious term (it just means "a levy of 1/10th"), despite it mostly being used in a religious context. I use it because there is no good alternative term.

[__MatrixMan__]

Seems like an appropriate usage of the word to me. How seriously do you take the 1/10th part?

[JohnFen]

10% is the standard I follow. It's built into my budgeting at that level. There's nothing magical about the 10%, though, it's just what works for me and is easy to compute. But I also follow the "pay yourself first" rule -- I take 10% off the top of every dollar that I receive, and put that aside for future me. Then I set aside 10% of the remainder to pay back my community. So, it's really 9%.

[shermantanktop]

Self-taxation?

[tuveson]

Why is the bar serving frozen pizza?

[bongodongobob]

That's how it's stored before they cook it.