Take the 21 Day Happiness Training Challenge!

You can find out more here, or go straight to the form to post your daily update.

Tag Archive: Frugality

Keep Your Friends Out of Debt

Image via Wikipedia If you’re like me, you get a bit evangelical about getting out of debt.  I try to convert spendthrifts and irritate my fellow debtors.   I’m probably pretty annoying at times.   What I’ve learned–or at least pretend to have learned–is the direct approach rarely works.   Hitting someone over the head with a brick…

Christmas for the Destitute

First, my disclaimer:  I’m not destitute. However, I’m trying to spend Christmas acting like I am a pauper. Why, with small children and beautiful-and-more-than-deserving wife, would I want to deprive my family of a bountiful holiday? Before we get into the reasons for being a horrible grinch bent on depriving my children of their god-given…