Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Nov 23, 2009, 6:23 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 s...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Nov 17, 2009, 6:00 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 t...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Nov 10, 2009, 9:47 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 ...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Oct 6, 2009, 4:00 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 t...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 29, 2009, 8:00 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 w...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 22, 2009, 8:00 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....
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 15, 2009, 8:00 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 -...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Sep 10, 2009, 6:46 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 pi...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Aug 11, 2009, 9:20 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 desperat...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jul 20, 2009, 9:00 am
I know people who are getting out of college now who thought that they were self-sufficient their final years as a student.  After all, they paid their own tuition, were responsible for their own foo...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jul 14, 2009, 10:26 am
What is luxury? Suppose you have a bunch of extra money to spend and you decide to buy little, nice things for yourself that you don’t already.  This might be a latte every day at Starbucks, to...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 30, 2009, 9:38 am
  In most kitchens, microwaves are pretty standard.  Sometimes they come with the kitchen. Occasionally, you might be renting an apartment that doesn’t have one, or buying a house with no app...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 24, 2009, 9:28 am
Looking good often involves buying a lot of personal products, keeping your wardrobe updated by buying new clothes on a regular basis, keeping up with the latest trends by getting subscriptions to fas...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 15, 2009, 10:54 pm
One of the most frustrating aspects of not spending money is that friends or coworkers will inevitably ask you to social events that will be beyond your price range.   Saying “no” is not...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 10, 2009, 1:24 pm
I’ve added a blog to the blogroll: The Simple Dollar. The blog is written by a guy named Trent who describes his blog as such: “The Simple Dollar is an exploration of personal finance fro...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 9, 2009, 12:22 pm
We’ve all done it before– no matter how much you’re on a budget, no matter how frugal you’re being, no matter how many Ramen noodles you eat instead of going out, there’s...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - Jun 3, 2009, 10:15 am
A word about personal Finances: What you make is YOUR business. It isn’t anyone else’s.  It doesn’t matter if you make 100,000 a year, or 50,000 a year, or 18,000 a year.   What ...
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Kalani R. posted an article on Not Spending Money - May 26, 2009, 12:06 pm
I was reading in Psychology Today the other day that snobs are not people who have expensive tastes, but people who just think they’re better than others for whatever reason. This may seem obvi...
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