Posted October 5, 2009 - 05:00 by Max Wong
This week I did an intervention on Sarah, one of my dearest friends. Sarah has a substance abuse problem -- but not with drugs. Sarah has a problem with self storage.
Posted February 4, 2009 - 14:38 by Silicon Valley Blogger
I hope you'll permit me to speculate a little on what it means to live below our means. When you think about it, there are various ways to address our financial goals, which I'll categorize into three basic approaches: you can cut costs, increase your income or do a combination of both. How do you go about saving money and building your net worth?
Posted November 30, 2008 - 03:20 by Andrea Dickson
Listen, I know I can be an elitist sometimes, but I occasionally shop at Walmart. But regardless of how good the deals are, how could any, or all, of the merchadise inside a Wal-mart be worth the life of a single person?
Posted September 26, 2008 - 10:37 by Andrea Dickson
Facebook and other social networking sites know an awful lot about you from what you say when you first sign up. As a single woman over 30 years of age, I got tired of Facebook ads that were pitching miracle weight loss potions, and sites for lonely women over 30 ("Find the man of your dreams!").
So I became a lesbian.
Posted August 27, 2008 - 13:17 by Andrea Dickson
I tend to believe that American consumers are savvier than advertisers and marketers give us credit for. That's why I don't understand why marketers waste so much time trying to sell us the same thing in a new box. Surely we know better than to fall for gimmicks like the insult to intelligence that I recently spotted in my local grocery store.
Posted May 10, 2008 - 11:43 by Philip Brewer
When I advocate for frugal living, people sometimes ask, "What if everybody lived like that? Wouldn't it hurt the economy?" My natural inclination toward frugal living may color my opinion, but I don't think so. I think mass frugality would be good for the economy.
Posted November 23, 2007 - 21:00 by Paul Michael
Today, November 23rd, is Black Friday. A day that as a Wisebread writer and bargain hunter I love. There are deals everywhere, we all get a chance to save a bit of dough before the Holidays, we all smile a bit more. At least, that's what I thought. But as I trudged around today in the sales, with lines of people looking more stressed than a factory farmed chicken, I realized that this day has increasingly become more of a black day on the calendar.
Posted August 7, 2007 - 15:54 by Andrea Dickson
There's a man who lives down the street from me who's a big fan of dumpster diving. And by "fan" I mean, that's all he does. His back yard is a sea of garbage. He has 30 broken refrigerators on his giant back porch. His truck, which is parked in front of my house, is overflowing with discarded junk like broken baby strollers, cardboard boxes, paving stones, and dried out cans of paint. He's impoverished. Yet he has all this crap lying around.
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