Well, I finally pulled the trigger and have started in motion a plan to free myself from Comcast. I tried to make myself love cable TV, but I find that it bores me. Combine that with the fact that I don’t really watch TV to begin with, and it becomes a glaringly obvious piece of [...]

How to Inoculate Your Children Against Advertising - Get Rich Slowly
This is a great guest post over at GRS by Lisa Tiffin. I grew up in the “golden age” of advertising for kids - where they were able to make toys look like they did all these amazing things and only had to run .002 [...]

I’ve written in the past about effectively using your public library to expand your own personal one. As I sit here in the Schaumburg Township District Library, I will attempt to do a rough quantification about it’s value/savings - don’t expect Nobel Prize winning economic research here folks.

Photo credit: Tom Harpel
Let’s take a few [...]

Extreme Personal Finance: America On $10 A Day
J.D. at Get Rich Slowly has a write up on an article in the Albuquerque Tribune about one anti-war protestor in said locale that makes Thoreau look like a spendthrift. Apparently he does it to stay below the federal poverty line, therefore legally not owing taxes and therefore [...]

The Simple Dollar - Little Steps: 100 Great Tips For Saving Money For Those Just Getting Started
The Simple Dollar has a great selection of tips for saving money, especially if you are just starting out in getting your financial house in order. Some may seem dead basic, but there are some really good ones in [...]

Catalog Choice

Tired of getting the deluge of catalogs from companies you may have ordered from once 5 years ago? My parents get a ton of catalogs and it can be really annoying having to recycle all of them or throw them away. Thankfully, there is a free way to facilitate the opt-out process for catalogs [...]

When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling evils; his spirit is weak, in a [...]

The Simple Life Can Be Yours - Dumb Little Man
K. Stone guest blogs over at DLM with an awesome article about purposefully setting out to have a more satisfying and less complex life. I really thought the emphasis on creating “actionable” goals was an important one - far too often, we make goals that can [...]