Frugality
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” –…
At the start of last year, I decided to make a list of things I did on the weekends that…
The partial government shutdown has had a serious impact on 800,000 federal employees, including those with “essential” jobs who are…
Max writes in with a great question that had an answer that was just a bit too long for the…
Recently, I had a face-to-face conversation with a reader (yep, this happens every once in a while; I have a…
Marilyn writes in: If I go home after work and cook dinner, I have to spend half an hour in…
One of the big tricks of frugal living is to know when it’s worthwhile to sweat the small stuff and…
We’ve all been there at some time or another. You feel somewhat disengaged from a lot of the things in…
A few weeks ago, I was invited to one of those meal preparation parties where you hang out with friends…
I’ll be the first to admit that this time of the year leaves me feeling overwhelmed, and this year more…
You’re probably reading this during the “calm before the storm.” There’s a good chance that sometime in the next several…
Snowstorms, ice storms, freezing rain, or even just 43-degrees-and-drizzling days in Seattle. Iced-up windshields, slick-as-tofu roadways, drafts that stubbornly resist…
A few years ago, I wrote an article entitled Looking Down the Ladder: A Different Perspective on Spending. The article…
Yesterday, to start off the reader mailbag, I offered up this little riff: When I was younger, the idea of…
It’s early December, and that means my mailbox is full of requests from readers for frugal gift ideas for the…
After each holiday season, it’s pretty easy for me to write an article about how much you can save by…
One money strategy I’ve used since the very first day of my financial turnaround is to carefully consider all of…
One of my core principles of personal finance is “if you’re doing something by yourself, do it as cheap as…
