Straight up and sideways. You could almost reach out and grab the financial stress these days. The GDP took a .3% hit last quarter, the Feds cut prime to 1% (seriously?! 1%?), and most folks feel like tightrope walkers in a hurricane. It's hard not to feel one misstep from disaster when you're...

Like most Americans, I'm surrounded by enormous piles of crap. In the immediate vicinity, there's a printer, an empty Coke can, a marker, eight hundred and sixty two thousand pencils, a binder catalogue (I'm a lawyer, we get stuff like that), a sippy cup...just way too much to list. I spent...

I was talking with my fifteen year old brother last night, and my favorite Dr. Seuss quote came up: "Say what you mean and mean what you say, because those who mind, don't matter, and those who matter, don't mind." I've been thinking recently about how this applies to living a frugal...

Brandy, I'm very fortunate that my budget doesn't need to be so strict, and I haven't switched to the cash-in-jars yet. - (and btw that was Australian dollars so not quite as much as it sounds) but I really want to just get out of the whole impulse-buying junk-collecting habit. We have enough...