My last two blog posts have talked about how I have managed money over the years and I realize now that I have been a little too smug about it. I really shouldn’t be so self-satisfied because I have actually made some really dumb financial choices as well as some good ones. The first dumb […]
In writing my most recent blog post about being too frugal, I mentioned that I had once kept in ledger books an account of all my family’s income and spending. This inspired me to go out into the garage and see if I could find those books among my boxes of memorabilia and, sure enough, […]
I like to think I am frugal, but sometimes I can be absurd frugal. Let me give you an example. I have a pair of nail scissors that I once used for something other than cutting nails and broke the tip off one side. I can’t remember what I was using it for, but it […]
Snowbird of Paradise 