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Making the most of your guilty pleasures

Posted 2 years ago by Philip Brewer

Filed Under: Frugal Living

Pens and notebooks with Ganesh

I've been trying to come up with a way to articulate the mental shift from being not-frugal to being frugal. It's not really about wanting to spend less, and it's certainly not about making do with less. A lot of it is about figuring out what you really want, but saying that sweeps a lot of hard thinking under the rug.

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Do you have what you want… and do you want what you have?

Posted June 7, 2007 - 00:30 by Ed O'Reilly

Lifestyle

hand reaching for the skies

Sometimes, being frugal means not just saving money; sometimes it means not spending any at all. There’s been a growing preoccupation with working more to earn more--to buy more; yet, it never seems enough. A cursory glance at a landscape of malls, fast food chains and airplane hangar-sized clubs for buying sugary snacks in a container the size of an oil drum implies that this condition of over-consumption is reaching epidemic proportions.

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The seven deadly sins of consumerism (and the frugal redemption).

Posted 2 years ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Lifestyle

demon

Sit ye down, hold your loved ones tight, and get ready for the seven deadliest sins of the modern day consumer.

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Can I Conquer My Vanity for the Sake of My Sanity?

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Lifestyle

makeup-vanityI’m worried that becoming frugal will force me to give up a certain amount of pride. And at the same time, I’m hoping that becoming frugal will help me to give up a certain amount of pride.

It’s hard for me to be frugal. I don’t mean that it’s difficult to clip coupons, or to restrict your spending, or to limit spendy nights out on the town. All of those things are difficult, too, but they are not the root of the problem with finding frugality. The root of the problem, for me, is selfishness – the selfish need to be seen as NOT selfish.

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