In the comments on a recent post about peer pressure, I mentioned a quote that I’d edited from the original draft. (I write a lot of stuff that doesn’t make it into final articles. It’s as if there should be “bonus features”.
Topics: Frugality, Gurus

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If you follow me on Twitter, you know that between writing chapters for Your Money: The Missing Manual I’ve been wrestling with eBay “customer service”. Note the quotes. It’s difficult to tell the full story in 140-character...
Topics: Shopping

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This article is by staff writer Adam Baker. Baker recently reflected on just how much money affects our internal values.When booking airfare online, most people think of the popular online aggregation sites. You know the ones: They have the fancy...
Topics: Tools, Travel

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This article is the 10th of a 13-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly.Yesterday, for the first time in my 40-1/2 years on this earth, I went ice skating. Initially, I was scared to try, but I eventually gave in to the taunts from..
Topics: Basics, Psychology, Self-Improvement

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Because I love The Cinnamon Bear so much, I post this exact same article every year on the 29th of November. This year is no different. If you have young children — and even if you don’t — I encourage you to listen to these old radio...

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