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- The Balance Between Splurger and Miser
- The Hidden Cost of Spending While In Debt
- Book Review: The Happiness Project
- Reader Story: How I Fought Lifestyle Inflation — and Won!
- Should You Really Be Reading This Post?
- What We Know, Don’t Know, and Never Knew
- To Find Happiness, One Millionaire Gives His Wealth Away
- Love and Money: Do Savers Seek Spenders?
- Break Out of Your Comfort Zone to Achieve Success
- Notes on Self-Study from a Killjoy Perfectionist
- Happy New Year! My One Goal for 2010
- It’s More Important to Be Happy Than to Be Rich
- Where’s Your Financial Comfort Level?
- Failure is Okay
- The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good
- My Advertising Crash Diet
- Do What Works for You
- The Curse of a Big-Win Mentality
- Knocking Out the Beliefs That Hold You Back
- The Paradox of Choice and the Dangers of Perfection
- Accumulation and Attachment: Finding Balance
- The Guilt of Wealth
- The Personal Finance Hour, Episode 23: Money and Happiness
- Happier
- Money is More About Mind Than It Is About Math
- Finding Financial Values
- Lighting a Fire: How to Overcome Procrastination
- Further Adventures in My War on Stuff
- What Got You to Get Better? Reasons for Change
- Discovering (and Challenging) Your Financial Values
- The “Do-I-Have-Enough-For-This?” Effect
- Peer Pressure and Money: Do You Spend Differently with Friends?
- Freedom from Mindless Spending
- Failing Forward: Transforming Mistakes into Success
- Do Experiences Lead to Greater Happiness Than Material Purchases?
- Lower Your Expectations, Increase Your Happiness
- Financial Serenity – The Missing Ingredient
- When Money DOES Buy Happiness
- Remnants of Things Past
- Further Research on Money and Happiness
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Debtor
- Ask the Readers: What Makes You Feel Rich While Being Frugal?
- Want to Spend Less? Carry Bigger Bills
- The Lure of SkyMall
- The Turning Point
- Ask the Readers: Where’s the Fun in Personal Finance?
- Economic Stimulus and the Marginal Propensity to Consume
- Oversaving Does Not Lead to Happiness
- Lighting the Way
- Ask the Readers: What Do You Do When Frugality Gets You Nowhere?
- The Psychology of Passive Barriers: Why Your Friends Don’t Save Money, Eat Healthier, or Clean Their Garages
- Defeating Temptation: 10 Questions to Ask Yourself When You’re Tempted to Buy
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel
- A Candle in the Dark
- The Ongoing Battle with Lifestyle Inflation
- Fumbling in the Dark
- How to Build Confidence and Destroy Fear
- George Kinder: Three Questions about Life Planning
- Behavior Gap: The Psychology of Investing
- How to Make Your Own Luck
- Use Personal Marketing to Persuade Yourself to Save
- How to Replace Bad Financial Habits With Good Ones
- Ask the Readers: How Much Money Would it Take For You to Compromise Your Principles?
- You Are Not Your Money
- How to Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick
- What’s Your Why? The Importance of Finding Meaning in Your Life
- When Less is More: The Importance of Perceived Value
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want: The Dark Side of Personal Finance
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Talk to Your Loved Ones About Money?
- The Irritation Threshold and Lifestyle Inflation
- Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
- 10 Unconventional Money-Saving Tips
- What Does it Mean to Be Rich?
- How Do You Turn Passion into a Career? (And Should You?)
- The Sunk-Cost Fallacy Revisted
- Research Reveals Credit Cards Encourage Spending
- The Never-Ending War Against Advertising
- The Power of Attentive Spending
- The Sunk-Cost Fallacy: Good Money After Bad
- Ask the Readers: How to Cope with Spending Addiction?
- The Idea of Having
- Financial Success Comes from Within
- Building a Better Budget: Think Yearly, Not Monthly
- The Psychology of Happiness: 13 Steps to a Better Life
- Ask the Readers: The Psychology of Credit Cards?
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason
- Cleaning House: When Little Messes Become Big Problems
- If Personal Finance is Easy, Why Isn’t Everybody Rich?
- Dangerous Norms: When a Treat Becomes a Routine Matter
- Five Tactics for Pursuing Voluntary Simplicity
- The Dirty Secrets of Debt Reduction (and What to Do About Them)
- Is It More Important to Be Rich or to Be Happy?
- The Art of Frugal Living
- A Small Bite: The Sensible Way to Splurge
- Why It Pays to Ignore Financial News
- Closing the Gap Between Dreams and Reality
- Richer Than Rockefeller: Putting Wealth in Perspective
- Behavioral Economics on Why We Buy What We Buy
- Ask the Readers: “I’m Doing Well Financially But My Family Is Not”
- A Rather Obvious Metaphor for Personal Finance Couched in a True Story About Physical Fitness
- Personal Currencies: New Ways to Look at Money
- Reader Success Story: To Wii or Not to Wii?
- Making the Move from Spender to Saver
- If I Can Do It, Anyone Can
- What’s the Reason for Saving and Investing?
- Seven Traits of Successful People
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Keep from Losing Control?
- Don’t Panic! Coping with Financial Mistakes and Setbacks
- What’s the Safest Thing I Can Do with My Money?
- The Magic of Thinking Small
- Excited and Scared: One Week as a Full-Time Blogger
- Cat and Girl on Wants and Needs
- Why We Shop: Getting a Grip on Consumerism
- The Number One Impact on Your Investments is YOU
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Prepare for Enormous Debt?
- Possessed: People Who are Ruled by Stuff
- How Shopping Momentum Leads to More Shopping
- What Motivates You to Pursue Smart Personal Finance?
- Ask the Readers: I’m Not Good With Money — How Should I Handle a Windfall?
- Some Thoughts on Making the Transition from Debt to Savings
- Proven Methods for Servers to Increase Their Tips
- How to Cope with Frugality Burnout
- Tech Lust: How to Cope with Gadget Envy
- Don’t Make Resolutions — Set Goals for 2008
- How Good Habits Keep Small Mistakes Manageable
- Money and Security: Fear of the Future
- The Thrill of Paying Off a Mortgage
- The Pastoral Lifestyle: A Life Removed from Day-to-Day Concerns
- The Hidden Costs of Stuff
- Money Hack: Prepay Your Monthly Bills
- Are You a Shopaholic? Six Steps to Curb Compulsive Spending
- The Unbranded Kid: Thoughts on Marketing to Children
- Yardwork and Financial Setbacks: A Metaphor
- Understanding the Seven Habits of Wealth
- On the Relationship Between Temperament and Financial Behavior
- Countrywide and Me: A Real-Life Look at Risk Tolerance
- The Smell of Money: Marketers Use Scent to Encourage Spending
- Three Questions About Money and Ethics
- Getting to Now: How to Beat the Procrastination Habit
- What if the Stock Market Makes You Nervous?
- Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes (and How to Correct Them)
- The Top 3 Mental Blocks to Personal Finance (and How to Get Past Them)
- Marketing Affects How Children Perceive Food
- Malcolm Gladwell on The Power of Marketing
- The Tyranny of Stuff
- What I’m Doing Right
- You Are Your Own Worst Enemy
- The Power of Yes: A Simple Way to Get More Out of Life
- If Personal Finance Is Easy, Why Isn’t Everybody Rich?
- The Problem with the Bank of Mom and Dad
- Feeling Broke: Little Things Add Up
- There is No Secret: The Myth of the Law of Attraction
- The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good
- How to Fight the Urge to Splurge
- Ask the Readers: When Does This All Pay Off?
- The Secret of Wealth and Happiness
- Take Back Your Brain!
- Building Success from the Ashes of Failure
- Beware the Insidious Power of Marketing
- The Curse of the Money-Saving Gadget
- Don’t Watch the Super Bowl Just for the Ads
- Rich or Poor? Sometimes It’s All in Your Head
- Book Review: The Consumer Trap
- Procrastination Can Cost You Money!
- Inside the Mind of a Spendthrift
- Facing and Fighting Financial Trolls
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
