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Does your culture support saving?

Posted 7 weeks 3 days ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Frugal Living

Piggy bank looks across a lake

My brother told me once that, when he was in college, he handled money this way: "When I got paid, I set aside enough money for cigarettes, then spent the rest buying pizza and beer for everyone until the money ran out.  The other people I hung around with did the same."

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The line between frugal and crazy

Posted 31 weeks 4 days ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Frugal Living

Sphinx statue

You don't have to go very far down the path of being frugal to reach the point where people start questioning your sanity. (You bicycle to work? Even though you have a perfectly good car?) On the other hand, there's no idea so crazy that there aren't some frugal folks out there who swear by it. (I hesitate to suggest an example, for fear of offending some of our committed readers.) Still, there is a line where frugality becomes pathology. In fact, there are two lines.  We have names for them.  We call them stingy and miserly.

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