Is it pork with a dash of lipstick and lots of spending, or is it going to create lots and lots of jobs? You decide what the stimulus appropriations package is. You can read a brief summary at My Two Dollars. Since the actual bill weighs in at 1071 pages, I’m sure you will appreciate […]
Another installment from Leo Babauta’s Thriving on Less, the companion ebook to his The Power of Less. Chapter 5 – Make Small Financial Changes First “Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.” – Saul Bellow While it’s important, when scaling back, to try to eliminate non-essential expenses as much as possible, you can’t change […]
Another installment from Leo Babauta’s Thriving on Less, the companion ebook to his The Power of Less. . Chapter 4 – Focusing on Enough, Not More “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi I think it’s something that’s conditioned in us from an early age, by friends, television, […]
I read that A 20-year-old man in Champaign, Ill will be outfitted with a tracking device that can track his movements. So, is he under house arrest for some kind of crime? No, he’s ill. The man has TB, but will still have his movements restricted until he completes treatment. The only thing this man […]
Here is the third chapter of Leo Babauta’s Thriving on Less, the companion ebook to his The Power of Less. Chapter 3 – Thriving on Less, Not Struggling “Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.” – The Talmud Scaling back your life and living more frugally can be seen in two ways: 1. It can be […]
This is the second chapter of Leo Babauta’s Thriving on Less. It is his companion ebook to The Power of Less. Chapter 2 – Focus on the Essentials “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann The first step in simplifying, and living with less, is to […]
A breaking news alert from the New York Times just came in. According to the Labor Dept., the jobless rate jumped to 7.2% as more that 524,000 nonfarm jobs were lost in December. More than 11 million Americans are now unemployed, the most in nearly 25 years. That now puts the unemployment rate up 2.2 percentage points since April. […]
If you don’t procrastinate, you can have personal finance expert Suze Orman’s latest book free. Suze was on the Oprah Winfrey show today and revealed her 2009 action plan. That is, in fact, the title of her latest book. You can go here right now to download her book. But you need to do this before […]
I used to shop the day after Christmas sales when my children were young and I was less frugal. I would buy lots of Christmas wrap, ribbons and cards at the half off sales. I never saved any money, but I was able to buy much nicer items. Nicer items that were just going to […]
Leo Babauta of Zen Habits has written Thriving on Less: Simplifying in a Tough Ecomony, as a companion Ebook to his The Power of Less. I think the timing of this book is very appropriate to the coming new year. After a recession that has already lasted over a year and is showing no signs […]