For the weekly videos, I now tell a story. I’ve realized that for me, and I think for many people, a story is what holds my attention and makes a point most powerfully.
This week’s story: Be polite, and be fair.
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I love short mantras that cover a lot of situations. Do you have a mantra or catchphrase that helps you remember how you want to behave?
As we’ve discussed before, an average American family with two children – a seven year old and a ten year old – spends $1,252 a month on food according to the USDA’s liberal food plan.
If that family adopted just a few frugal practices and were able to switch their food spending to the USDA’s low-cost plan, the family is now spending just $826.60 per month on food.
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Materials: Akurum Base Cabinet, Akurum 80" Tall Cabinet, Rationell Deep Drawer and Fronts, Tablesaw, Drill
Description: One of the biggest questions regarding the Ikea Akurum tall cabinets are how to fit them into a floor to ceiling installation.
Materials: Old french book, PVA and clear varnish
Description: This was originally the UTBY Bar table, brown-black, stainless steel. After having this table for 3 years, the wood veneer came off in places. The table started to look terrible. So I made a table cover from an old French book.
Can you really make new friends as an adult? I mean, there’s plenty advice out there on how to help kids make friends. But if you don’t have friends by the time you’re an adult, it seems the world hands you a dunce cap and shows you to the corner.After all, many adults have all the friends they need or want, right?
Materials: Besta cabinets
Description: We have a small bedroom but wanted a large bed, we bought 3 Besta double width low cabinets and 1 single.
The single taller cabinets used as bedside cabinets. We removed the shelves and replaced with large baskets, this was cheaper than buying the Besta drawers and drawer fronts.
Dropbox is a service that offers online storage of your stuff. It’s tremendously convenient and used by lots of people world wide. Dropbox is a quick-and-dirty sharing and backup tool that many workers (including yours truly) couldn’t work without.
What many people don’t realize is that Dropbox is capable of a lot more than drag-and-drop storage of your files.
I generally don’t make a financial move unless I’ve researched the ins and outs of that move thoroughly. I want to understand exactly what I’m doing and why I’m doing it before I move any of my money around.
Understanding the ins and outs of the various financial options before us is a vital part of personal finance.
Nathan Barry is a web designer who quit his job at a software company in October 2011 in order to work for himself.
In 2012, his first year of being self-employed, Nathan managed to make $145,471 USD, which is more than double of what he used to make in his last job.
This post is from staff writer Kristin Wong. When I think of lifestyle inflation, I think of going to my favorite sushi restaurant every weekend. I think of buying the pricey cashmere sweater I’ve been eyeing and then buying ten more expensive sweaters. I think of spending weekends on yachts and drinking champagne while a guy on a violin serenades me.
I have dental “issues.” I’m one of the (apparently) very small percentage of people who are difficult to freeze. There are theories, previous orthodontic work, mystery nerve configurations … I’ll spare you. But you can imagine how dental experiences might go in these cases.
"I wish that I had let myself be happier."
This is one of the top five regrets of dying people. We often have this false sense of immortality, that we can take life for granted, put off resolving conflicts with our loved ones, and avoid doing the things we love because we think there’s “still time”.
Sometimes it’s hard to know if it’s all worth it. You’re out in the woodshed, slaving away on this thing you love, night and day. But does anyone else care?Will anyone else care?
At times, you may be tempted to pack it in. You’d like to return to normal, to the way things were before this new way of life came along.
The problem is, what’s really normal?
