Tag: save money

  • What I Like About You

    Tired of hearing about what you’re doing wrong with your finances? You need to focus on what your doing right; that’s what I like about you.

  • The Only Thing You Need to Know:

    How do people accumulate millions, billions, gazillions of dollars? In many different ways: they inherit, they win, they gamble, they take out life insurance policies and hire hit men (JOKE). But for the most part, “rich” people become rich by saving and investing. Here is the easiest thing I know about saving.

  • Why Diets Fail & Saving is Difficult

    On nearly every New Year’s resolution list out there you’ll find some variation of “lose weight” and “save money.” Do you see a problem with either of these goals? Clearly there is one, because so frequently people fail to achieve them.

  • Are You Following a Frugal Trend or are You Gonna Stick Around?

    Recessions are likely to motivate the masses to adopt more frugal lifestyles, but I wonder just how many of them are going to stick around. Even more, I wonder if it’s best for the economy that they don’t.

  • Why are you saving?

    During the quest for financial independence it’s all too easy to lose the forest for all of the trees. Every now and then it’s important to step back and remind yourself just why you are clipping coupons, why you’ve been depriving yourself of that new car, why you are living frugally. Are you hoarding money…

  • Cost Per Use

    Is going cheap always right? No. Does more expensive always mean more reliable? No. The correct choice is based on a little figure called cost per unit.