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20-200-2 Much?
Is getting 20 years and 200,000 miles out of our 1993 Toyota Camry Wagon 2 much to ask? I ask because at 16 and 163 I’m starting to feel like a surfer at the end of a long ride pressing up and down on...
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What, if anything, will we learn from the recession?
I’m not a regular viewer (a necessary qualifier to retain some semblance of masculinity), but I caught an episode of Oprah one night last week. The theme, the recession’s negative impact on people....
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Seigels—You Disgust Me
Subtitle: Thank goodness for Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. A friend, in his early 40′s, was dating a multimillionaire C.E.O. He bragged to me that her kids didn’t even have to put their dishes in the...
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Marriage Red Flag
My nomination for a SLP personal finance journalism award—given to the author of a particularly succinct, lucid, and provocative personal finance article. From Rachel Emma Silverman in the Wall Street...
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Stoic Insights on Materialism
Stoics knew, in Irvine’s words, that luxurious living only whets one’s appetite for even more luxury. Exhibit A, the GalPal and I need hotel upgrades now. Consequently, they practiced poverty or...
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Irrational Frugality
Before a gaggle of dudes lost their jobs, I couldn’t get enough of the Secret Service-Columbia prostitute story mostly because the primary agents’ irrational frugality makes me feel better about my own...
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Why Are You Preoccupied With How Others Perceive You?
The real question of course is why do we care about how people, in many cases whom we don’t even know well, think about us? Odd how often we willfully hand over how we feel about ourselves to the...
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10 Ways to Save Money Today
Off to Canada for a little swimming, cycling, and running this weekend. One loyal Pressing Pauser asked if I was going to tweet or blog the event. No plans to blog until returning next week. Tweeting...
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The Best Get Rich Scheme You’ll Read About All Day
Huffington Post-like tabloid headline alert. By “best” I mean “only”, by “get rich” I mean have a little more money leftover at the end of the month, and by “scheme” I mean partner with your...
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Embrace the Waste
I love that about a quarter of PressingPause’s readers are from outside the United States. Hard to know of course if they’re ex patriot readers, or as I assume, genuine article foreign nationals. The...
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What People Get Wrong About Financial Literacy
Every spring a friend in North Carolina and I have a NCAA college basketball tournament bet. He takes the teams representing the Atlantic Coast Conference and I get those representing the Pacific-12....
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Teaching and Learning New Skills
What’s the best way to teach? It depends. The most effective methods vary depending upon whether one’s aim is the transmission of knowledge, or the application of knowledge, or the development of...
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Frugality’s Point of Diminishing Returns
Frugal people like me sometimes take bargain hunting too far. We need to be smarter about frugality’s point of diminishing returns. Writing in the New York Times, Henry Petroski states the obvious—U.S....
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Of Coupon Codes and Meaning in Life
Karl Marx believed history was shaped by an overarching dialectic—an enduring conflict between the bourgeoisie who owned the means of production and the proletariat who were stuck selling their labor...
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Going Against Type
It’s human nature to extrapolate what we know about one another to predict the future. More simply, thanks to our pea brains, we put people in boxes. Case in point, my “friends” love nothing more than...
View ArticleHow Much Does Your Commute Cost?
You don’t know because Jack was right. I hope it’s a lot less than mine. All numbers are approximations. • 40 weeks x 4 days commuting per week = 160 round trips of about 65 miles = 10,400 miles/year....
View ArticleWhy Bill And Melinda Are Calling It Quits
Melinda can’t take it anymore. Instead of making his own lattes, Bill drives through Starbucks every damn day. Instead of walking public golf courses, he rents carts at private country clubs. Instead...
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