Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Feb 5, 2011, 1:40 am
Time. When I worked at a coffee shop, guests would sometimes leave tips in the tip jar. It wouldn’t be much– just their leftover change that they didn’t want to deal with, or the quarter in their pocket because they liked my smile. At the end of the day, the little pieces of change would add ...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 22, 2010, 1:40 am
If anyone is reading this blog, you may have noticed that there was a brief hiatus in my writing for the past several months. You may also have noticed that I had bought a house just before that. I was really excited about the possibilities of writing about how much money I wasn’t spending on m...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Nov 23, 2009, 7:23 pm
Research shows that turning down your thermostat by even a few degrees can result in significant energy cost savings over time. I get cold easily. I hate being cold. Turning down my thermostat even slightly means being more cold.  In my own home, I have decided that keeping the heat up is one of t...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Nov 23, 2009, 7:23 pm
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Nov 17, 2009, 7:00 am
There are about a million things I want to do with my house.  I would like to update the kitchen and bath, refinish the floors, replace the windows, paint the exterior, and landscape the yard, just to name a few small projects. It’s not that the house is in bad shape; it’s not. It’s a trim li...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Nov 17, 2009, 7:00 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Nov 10, 2009, 10:47 am
In reading this blog, one might get the impression that I am against spending money. This is not true. I love spending money. But it’s simply not a very sustainable pasttime. Saving isn’t an end by itself.  It really doesn’t do anyone any good to die with millions of dollars in the bank becau...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Nov 10, 2009, 10:47 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Oct 6, 2009, 5:00 am
I wanted to do a lovely long post about gardening, and then found this book in the library and realized that they’ve done a much better and more thorough job than I ever could hope to write on the subject. If you like gardening, I would highly recommend this book. The Frugal Gardener: How to Have...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Oct 6, 2009, 5:00 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 29, 2009, 9:00 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 29, 2009, 9:00 am
The Perfect Guest Room? Overnight guests come to the smallest of homes, and I know I have a real desire to make them feel welcome and have their guest experience really be enjoyable. In my perfect world, this would involve: A perfect, pretty little guest bedroom set up just for them Clean and fl...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 22, 2009, 9:00 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 22, 2009, 9:00 am
Uncle Sam says... You really should join the Army. Has a similar scenario ever happened to you? You go into the hair cutting place and are prepared to pay the few dollars it takes to get a haircut. “You know,” says the stylist while he has you captive under the shampoo, “You really should u...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 15, 2009, 9:00 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 15, 2009, 9:00 am
Free Education: I have friends who are doing a lot of different things with their lives. Among my closest friends are: - Engineers - Programmers - Schoolteachers - Bellydancers - Artists - Linguists - Mothers - Published Authors - A geophysicist - an LDS missionary - A medical physicist - An Olympic...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 10, 2009, 7:46 pm
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 10, 2009, 7:46 pm
We used to call them “bored games” because so many of them were only interesting if you were really bored. Why sit around a piece of cardboard and roll some dice if you could be playing pirates in the treehouse? Because seriously, pirates and treehouses are way cool. But that was a different era...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Aug 11, 2009, 10:20 am
A website that I like to read on a semi-regular basis is Snopes.com, where the author investigates the veracity of Internet rumors.  Many of these rumors involve fraudulent job offers, which desperate job seekers will shell out money for, only to be scammed. Craigslist and other classifieds sites a...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Aug 11, 2009, 10:20 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jul 20, 2009, 10:00 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jul 14, 2009, 11:26 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 30, 2009, 10:38 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 24, 2009, 10:28 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 15, 2009, 11:54 pm
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 10, 2009, 2:24 pm
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 9, 2009, 1:22 pm
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 3, 2009, 11:15 am
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - May 26, 2009, 1:06 pm
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