Last week an acquaintance said the following to me: “I hate TV, it’s such a waste of time!” Shortly after that another friend told me he never reads fiction because “you can’t learn anything from fiction.” Both pastimes, television watching and reading works of fiction were dismissed as not worthwhile because they didn’t necessarily teach [...]
This post is dedicated to my Grandma, who died on Friday at the age of 98. Grandma was a teacher and one of the ultimate advocates of learning new things. At a time when a lot of women weren’t even working outside the home, she worked to get a college degree while holding down a [...]
I have to admit it took me a long time to learn the power of gratitude. For many, many years I was one of those people who always saw the glass as half empty. A lot of bad things had happened to me in my life and I was pretty sure that they’d keep happening. [...]
I used to be a world champion worrier. I come from a long line of women who worry and it’s practically encoded into my genetic makeup. My mother and grandmother worried about everything. Somewhere along the way I picked up the worry habit. At times I was so busy obsessing about what might happen that [...]
A lot of people think that having more money would make everything that is wrong in their life right. They would worry less. They would be less stressed. They would be able to splurge and have small luxuries, or even big luxuries. They could pay someone to do the annoying tasks they didn’t want to [...]
Those of us who write this blog, and I’m guessing most of you who read it, are focused on achieving some pretty big goals. Speaking just for myself, I’m working on learning how to use my money better. I’m also working to get in better physical shape and lose some weight. I’d like to take [...]
In my living room, right next to my front door is a whiteboard, the markers are in a can on the bookcase right next to the board and the eraser is stuck to the top of the board with velcro. I have to admit that it does look a bit tacky at times but I [...]
This Sunday I want to share with you a tip that has saved my sanity over and over again. It’s not tough to do and it isn’t revolutionary, in fact it’s so simple that it is often overlooked. Still, if you can master this tip, you’ll find that your life improves and gets much saner. [...]
A lot of people who are practicing a frugal lifestyle started out doing so because they were dealing with an excess of debt. Unfortunately, it sometimes takes handling money the wrong way to make a person realize how money should be managed. Unfortunately, the consequences of overspending can be phone calls from bill collectors, repayment [...]
This post will wrap up the series on Christmas and Birthday Shopping Early and I hope I’ve given you some ideas and helped to make the upcoming Holiday Season a little less stressful. I discovered a new resource when Simple Mom blogged about it sometime last month and with friends and family far away and [...]
