The RV Trap
It's common to make payments on a new car for six years - in part because of the high cost of new cars; many people could never afford the payments if...
Avoiding a Soylent Future
Hamburger and pork chops are becoming what lobster used to be - expensive specialty foods most of us can only afford to eat once in awhile.
Forget steaks.
Or at least, forget paying...
The Truly Mobile Home
Mobile homes are the punchlines of many jokes about rednecks, but the real joke is that they're not really mobile homes.
They can be moved, certainly - but that is not the...
Strategic Debt?
Normally, it is wise to live not just within but below your means. To try to spend less than you earn, in order to be able to save.
In order to be...
Two is One . . .
Wealth is not necessarily the same thing as money - especially if money is just paper. You may have $10,000 in the bank today. It may not have any value six...
The Cost of Lost Opportunity
One of the reasons I'm no longer married is because I didn't want to "plan" for "retirement" - by putting more or even any of my money into a "401k" or...
Pace and Lick
If you've been trying to prepare for what seems to be already here - as by making provisions to provide your own food when you can no longer afford to buy...
Fireside Chat
It's single digits outside as I type this - but 72 degrees inside, as I type this. The fire is keeping us warm.
But that's only part of it.
The fire can't be...
Birds Not in Hand…
I decided to raise chickens - and ducks - so as to not have to worry about empty shelves at the store. Food on hand - in the back yard.
And, renewable....
Duck Smiting
Some people call it "harvesting." Others - more directly - "butchering." We call it smiting. As in, smite the ducks. As in what the pharaoh did to his various enemies. We...