Get Rich Slowly
One of the few personal finance blogs I read on a regular basis is Get Rich Slowly by J.D. Roth. He had two great posts in the past few days that I wanted to share with you. The first one was about
Thank you David Brooks for naming the need for an ethic of “enough”
David Brooks and I don’t always see eye to eye, but his Oped in the NYTimes today is a ten. In The Next Culture War he speaks pragmatically and strongly for the moral imperative of material restraint – a stand that will make strange (and …
New Ways to Save Using the Internet
When we updated Your Money or Your Life last year, we took out a lot of the hints and tips on how to save money in chapter 6. We knew that some of them had become outdated and that the Internet had emerged as a new and powerful …
Oops, burned through our allowance, again
Your Money or Your Life helps you live within your means. Below your means, really, so you liberate yourself from debt, excess and overwork. Did you know, though, that our collective human consumption has an “enough point” – a limit of spending beyond which more …
Two articles worth reading
A woman who attended one of our workshops in NYC recently sent me an article on how a family shed $106,000 in debt. If you or someone you know is feeling overwhelmed by money issues, I encourage you to read this article and forward it further. …
For those starting over
Last week we received the following email: Just wondering if you might address the issue of those of us who have recently lost everything financially when our long-time industries took a dive, and are starting over? It’s clear as a bell what “enough” is now. …
New Economy and New Normal
We’re going to be writing in months to come about the dinosaur economy (dying out but still dangerous) and the new economy, the shape of things to come, as described in a recent article (link below). Disoriented and scared, many people are madly looking for …
Financial Independence reconsidered
Financial independence – ahhh, what a dream! Doing as you please, not as you must. Having all the money you need without needing a job. Travel. Adventure. Relaxation. Time to write that book you’ve been thinking about for years. Well, I’ve been there and done …
What is your “enough point”?
Goldilocks was right. There’s a place of pleasure where things aren’t too hot, aren’t too cold, but just right. That “just rightness” is available to us in every domain of life, but it takes practice. Lots of it in a culture that says nothing and …
My doc’s retirement dilemma
I went to the doc yesterday (nothing serious) and it became something of a confessional during my treatment. Hearing I’d written Your Money or Your Life he at first was dismissive (oh i read all those money books), then curious, then confessional. He’s been a …