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Some tough love about budgeting

Last updated on: March 5, 2019 by David Lewis Filed Under: Budgeting, Saving Money Tagged With: better budgeting, budget, budget software, budgeting, budgeting problems, buget, easy budget, how to make a budget, making a better budget, save more money budgeting, simple budgeting, why budgets fail

Let’s rap about budgeting, shall we? It’s Valentine’s Day, and the best way I know how to show you how much I love you is to tell you you’re a fool if you don’t have a budget. OK, but seriously, you need a budget, but probably not the types of budgets promoted by financial gooruse. […]

The nonsensical financial theory of “low reward” vs “high reward” lifestyle

Last updated on: October 6, 2018 by David Lewis Filed Under: Budgeting, Financial Planning, Life Insurance, Saving Money Tagged With: budgeting, budgeting problems, dopamine addiction, dopamine drip financial theory, financial problems, high reward lifestyle, how to make a budget, how to save more money, how to stop spending money, low reward lifestyle, low reward vs high reward lifestyle, problems spending money, spendaholic, spending addiction, spending problems

Let’s rap about the so-called “dopamine addiction” afflicting Americans and how it’s killing their savings. The story goes that dopamine is a powerful neurotransmitter associated with “reward” or pleasure… and that the more money you spend, the more dopamine gets released into your brain, activating pleasure centers in your brain, and the more “reward” you […]

How to buff out your budget

Last updated on: December 11, 2018 by David Lewis Filed Under: Budgeting, Saving Money Tagged With: bad at budgeting, better budgeting, budgeting, budgeting money, budgeting problems, easy budgeting, saving money, simple budgeting

When I was a kid, we used to sled down old Cemetery Hill. It was, as the name suggests, a hill at the local cemetery. We didn’t have to dodge tombstones or anything but we DID have to watch out for the forest at the bottom of the hill. One day, my friends and […]

Mexican terrorists in a van spurned by Trump’s vitriol

Last updated on: November 12, 2018 by David Lewis Filed Under: Budgeting, Saving Money Tagged With: better budgeting, budgeting, budgeting money, budgeting problems, easy budgeting, how to make a budget, making a budget, saving mney, simple budgeting

On our way home, I pulled up next to a van at a stop light. My wife turns and says “those are the Mexican terrorists spurned by Trump’s vitriol.” Some shady-looking fellow peeks out the side of an unmarked white van with tinted windows. My wife is funny if nothing else. Anywho, it reminded me […]