Holiday traditions don’t have to be expensive. Some of the best traditions don’t cost anything at all.
When I was a boy, Christmas meant The Cinnamon Bear. During the weeks before Christmas, a Portland radio station (KEX) would broadcast a fifteen minute episode of this story every night. The Cinnamon Bear chronicles the adventures of Judy [...]

Jeff V. writes:
I just came across this budget-minded DIY site and I thought you and your readers would be interested in it.
Curbly bills itself as a “web community for people who love where they live”. It’s a site designed to help users create do-it-yourself projects to improve their home and environment. In a way, it’s [...]

Over the past week, I’ve received a barrage of messages from people seeking specific personal finance advice. While I’m willing to offer help where I can, many times the questions lay outside my area of expertise. I’m just a regular guy who is learning about personal finance and sharing the information with the world. I’m [...]

Initially, T. Harv Eker’s Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth seems cast from the same mold as Loral Langemeier’s The Millionaire Maker (my review): full of vague promises, unsupported claims, and thinly-veiled sales pitches for products and seminars. It’s true that Eker is guilty of some of these faults. But [...]

MAKE: Blog: The Open source gift guide - Open source hardware, software and more for the holidays
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New York Times: In class warfare, guess which class is winning
A fascinating editorial in which rich conservative Republican Ben Stein argues, with support from Warren Buffett, that the rich should be taxed more than they currently are.
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I originally shared this piece on June 12th. I’m reposting it because many PBS stations are rebroadcasting this show tonight.
How did the United States become a nation of debtors? When did credit cards become popular? Did you know that many modern credit card policies are the creation of one man?
The Secret History of the Credit [...]

Dumb Little Man points to a source of free foreign language courses online:
FSI Language Courses [is] the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an [...]

Guy Kawasaki Interviews Steve Wozniak « zBiz.TV
Video of two of my entrepreneurial heroes at once.
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Automatically save your change - Lifehacker
Bank America has a “save your change” program with their debit cards. The comments to this post contain useful info. [via GRS reader Matthew]
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Chiropractor works 2 jobs [...]

How can you know what you want
Till you get what you want
And you see if you like it?
— Steven Sondheim, Into the Woods

We had some good friends over for dinner the other night. While we waited for the roast to finish, Wayne and I took the air on the back porch. We talked about work. [...]

Last month I wrote about saving money by shopping for second-hand clothes. Today, in a nearby business park, our neighborhood used-clothing shop had a warehouse sale. Everything was a buck (except coats, which were two bucks). Better yet, there was an all-you-can-stuff bin — for $2, you could fill a garbage bag with all sorts [...]