October 30, 2007 – 2:49 pm
In the quest for growing up to be a responsible, frugal adult person, every little bit counts. Lately I have been trying to minimize my electrical bill at home by watching out for leaving lights on in unoccupied rooms, and such. Imagine my horror when I cam across this news piece that tells the tale [...]
From over at ZenHabits.net – The 12-Step Get-Out-of-Debt Program
My favorite bit is Step 9 -
Start a snowball. Now that your finances are relatively under control, you can start a debt snowball. At this point, you should have the beginnings of an emergency fund, you should know how much you owe, you should have a temporary [...]
Leo, of ZenHabits, knocks one out of the park again with his latest contribution at LifeHack.org. Minimize Work: Cut Your Work Week in Half in 6 Steps. Thanks Leo! His six step process is well thought out, complete, difficult, and I believe well worth an attempt (to one degree or another.) [...]
File this under cautionary tale: I was doing my morning blog crawl and read a piece over at diet-blog entitled The Top 10 Sources of Stigma. In it they list the top 10 sources of negative reaction to overweight people. They also included the title of the research paper that list was [...]
I have poor financial skills. They are getting better, and will continue to do so (damn it!!) but they are still not very good. After years of living paycheck-to-paycheck, and sometimes not even that, I finally have some savings, a growing 401K, a lessening fear of taxes and a credit score on the [...]
