If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!After almost a year of not having to think about money, it is time again. I am not talking about tax season. No, I’m talking about Xmas. The consumerist rat race where you buy presents for people you hardly [...]

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- So are you going shopping today?
- Nah, I’m going to stay at home and read my book.
- What book could be more fun than shopping?
- My bank book!
Anyone else not joining the mayhem today?

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According to the government, the average family spends $700 on food. That’s $700 a year, right?
Alright, so here’s one way to do it. I call it the sloppy joe pinto bean one dollar meal.
You need a can opener, a knife, a pressure cooker, and a spoon. These are all available from the minimalist kitchen. If [...]

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They should at least find you handy.
It’s raining outside, yet it’s not dripping inside, so I am proud to note that I seemingly successfully sealed the previously leaky skylight when I was on the roof the other day. Apparently that job did not require an expert.
Or should I wait to see if it still holds [...]

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Dollar cost averaging index investing is the most frequently one-size-fits all strategy suggested by personal finance bloggers. There are many reasons. It is easy to follow. It promotes discipline. It is supported by Nobel Prize winners(*). And perhaps most conveniently, everybody else supports it, so you don’t have to think about justifying it further(**).
(*) Pop-quiz: [...]

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As far as I am concerned our civilization peaked with the Apollo missions and it has pretty much been downhill ever since. Modern astronomers typically prefer small robotic satellite missions over human space flight. The claim is that robots can do what humans can do only better and more effective. The reason is that robots [...]

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It is basically making it a lot easier. Thanks guys!
This is a response to Frugal Bachelor who noted that pf bloggers have gotten awfully quiet about the market. On the same note, pf bloggers have also gotten awfully quiet about the 100 push up challenge, but I digress (as usual).
For me and other people [...]

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This past week, I have been working on setting up the website of a new non-profit start-up I am part off. We chose to use Joomla. One week ago I did not know any Joomla. I, therefore, figured that maybe, given that I have close to 1000 readers — at least that is what the [...]

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We need to fill up the propane tank today.
Living in an RV, even when hooked up, puts you in much greater touch with your resource use than living in an ordinary house. I think most people, by virtue of the growth culture they have been living in and still live in (hey, everybody still believes [...]

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From the brain of Charles Darwin
I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, …, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in [...]

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