The Hidden Costs of Luxury Items
Most of us enjoy luxurious things. They look nice. They feel good. They confer status and elevate us above our peers. We’re conditioned from an early age to want the best clothes, beauty products,...
View ArticleThe High (Monetary) Cost of Untreated Depression
We all know that depression is a terrible disease that can have an enormous psychological cost, both for the sufferer and their family and friends. But there is also a monetary cost to depression that...
View ArticleSnow Is A Beautiful Thief
It falls, taunting you, flake after flake, coating everything you see with white wet and cold crystals. It piles up in the corners, and in its complete blinding whiteness, all you can do is fork over...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as Free Exercise
Many years ago, I started walking, then running, for fitness. I needed to exercise more and everyone told me how walking/running was such great exercise and, best of all, it was free! All I had to do,...
View ArticleHow Living an Uncluttered Life Can Cost You
Mmm.. Organizational shows: watch and drool. Suddenly you find yourself grasped by the impulse to tidy your tiny world. Most of us realize that a a cluttered life can cost us money, but how can an...
View ArticleGrocery Bags Should Be Free!
The boxes were gone. My three-year-old was crestfallen. He had looked forward to his regular job of returning the plastic bags from last week’s grocery shopping trip to the recycling boxes just inside...
View ArticleIs the Conversion to Digital TV an Economic Stimulus Package in Disguise?
Even though I don’t watch a lot of television I, like everyone else, have had to look into converting my TV to digital so I can continue to receive my local networks after February 2009. While I don’t...
View ArticleThe Financial Challenge of Jury Duty
This week I got sucked into jury duty. The last time I did it I was very young and didn’t really care about giving up a whole day to sit in a courtroom for just a few dollars. Heck, at … Continue...
View ArticleThe Surprising Costs of DIY
My husband and I are do-it-yourselfers when it comes to home improvement. This is mostly because my husband’s dad is a contractor and he often guides and helps us when we need it. That being said,...
View ArticleNew Tool Helps Diagnose the Financial Pain of Cancer
Simply getting a diagnosis of cancer would send the stress level of most people through the roof. It’s not news that anybody visiting a doctor wants to hear. The stress of the disease, however, is not...
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