Pat yourself on the back. Government data show that in the face of the financial crisis, we have reduced our debt, cut our spending and, by one measure, boosted personal savings to the highest level this decade. So now that you’re back on track, how are you going to make the most of your hard-won […]

A couple of months ago, my former colleague Alice asked me if I had any advice to help make her more disciplined to be better with her finances. I told her that I thought she was a reasonably disciplined person, but that she needed to change her environment to make it more saving and frugal-friendly. […]

I think I’m going to enjoy writing this much more than you enjoy reading it. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Tyler Durden, he is an essential character in Fight Club, which is both a novel and movie. While the novel came a few years before, the movie escalated into a cult classic […]