I still use cash, in part because I think it makes me more mindful about spending money. Counting out the bills gives me time to think: do I really want to buy this? And yet, despite being a careful shopper and a cheapskate, I make mistakes. Thinking about these helps me to be better in… [Read More]
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Gifts and the Singularity of Common Life Events
One of the ways that bloggers get ideas is to look for things that people search for. One day, in my site statistics, I found that someone had found this using the search terms “cheap married people poor gift giving -wedding”. The searcher ended up at this post on the economics of gifts. Those search… [Read More]
My thoughts on the holiday shopping season
I appeared on the November 17, 2013 edition of WLS-Chicago’s Newsviews program, talking about the holiday sales outlook. Part 1: Part 2: