So maybe you think I’ve finally gone nuts. “The financial crisis doesn’t matter?” What an outrageous idea! People are suffering, you insist. How can it be that all the money that’s being lost right now, all the fortunes that are spinning down the drain, mean nothing?
Let me clarify. What I’m trying to say is that [...]

We should declare war on stuff. In fact, I think maybe I’ll formally do so one of these days. I’ll post about how bad stuff is and how it should be eliminated. You know the kind of stuff I’m talking about: trinkets, doodads, gewgaws, things that seem important in the moment but which add nothing [...]

This blog is about living cheap as a means of attaining financial freedom - that is, the ability to do what you love and to do it when and how you choose. I’m all about the nitty-gritty stuff that you have to do to get to that point. I’m not interested in idle dreaming. I [...]

I’m really into sweating the small stuff. Big stuff is worth sweating too, but you know, a bunch of small things put together make a big thing. This explains why I bother with online coupon codes, why I book and rebook my airline reservations, why I bought an Entertainment Book, and why I do a [...]

So I got to thinking the other day: you know, working at McDonald’s really isn’t so bad.
Wait a minute. Aren’t “McJobs” brainless, rote, and soul-destroying? Isn’t flipping fries all day an awful way to whittle away a lifetime?
Well, I look at it this way. I don’t work full time, but if I did work full [...]