America’s Cheapest Family… And Our Money Assumptions
This morning, America's Cheapest Family, the Economides (real name!) were supposed to be on the Today Show again. As I've been thinking about how we …Read More
Category Archives: Money
Random Acts of Microphilanthropy
One of the ideas I'm advocating in the Book Currently Known As Plenty is to create a small fund of charity fun money. I think …Read More
Entrepreneurs Feed Detroit’s Extreme Makeover
My column on Detroit-area start-ups, "Entrepreneurs Feed Detroit's Extreme Makeover," is running in today's USA Today (follow the link in this sentence for the online …Read More
Want To Create Jobs? Buy Local
Everyone is concerned with job creation these days. Ultimately, jobs are created, as Linda McMahon said in that famous Connecticut debate before the 2010 election, …Read More
The Pros And Cons Of a Spending Log
As I've been writing The Book Currently Known As Plenty, I've read a shelf full of other personal finance literature. One tip which surfaces frequently …Read More
The Money Book Outline
For the past 8 weeks or so I have been deep in the weeds on writing a draft of the money book. I approach book …Read More
Doing the Dishes
We all have some chore we profoundly dislike. For me, it's all things related to dishes. I don't like scrubbing them, and I don't like …Read More
Home Ownership: Yes or No?
As long time readers of this blog know, my family has been renting an apartment in NYC for the past 2.5 years. My husband bought …Read More
The Marginal Cost of Kids
Everyone knows that kids are expensive. Every year, the US Department of Agriculture publishes some high number, like $222,360, and says this is the cost …Read More
Gordon, redux
A few months ago, I did a post about buying Jasper (my 3-year-old) a toy Gordon train in the book store. He and I were …Read More