Posts Tagged ‘money’

Me, Myself, and My Money Issues

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

I have never had an easy relationship with money. When I was a kid and my family was very poor, I thought of little more than how much it sucked to have so little of it. When I was a little older and my family was less poor, I hated that my mom wouldn’t allow [...]

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10 Benefits of Living with Less

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Someone asked me recently to share some of the specific benefits of “living like this.” Her family was considering taking a similar trip and wanted to know what they might be in for. The thing is, there is no one definition that seems to fit what this is. We’re living with less, traveling full time, living [...]

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Today I Choose Enough

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

For the first time since I began freelance writing a few years ago, I’m having a slow month. If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you know that I’m usually working too much, battling too many deadlines too close to the wire. I work a lot; it’s just what I do. And now all [...]

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What We Did With Our Car

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

When we decided to move out of our house and into an RV and commit a year of our lives to traveling, we had to decide what to do with our stuff in the meantime. We chose to sell almost all of it because we didn’t want the burden of maintaining it somewhere, either in [...]

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Do What You Love: Where to Get the Money

Monday, May 16th, 2011

It’s all well and good to believe that you should follow your passion, but it can be hard to figure out exactly how you’re supposed to do that in the real world. How do normal people afford to do what they love?

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