As someone who has given 5 years of my life to charitable work, helping those less fortunate is something I strongly believe in. Unfortunately, tithing does not help people who are less fortunate.
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Hidden Brain: Is shopping making you unhappy?
When existence in a shopping-fueled fantasy becomes easier than actually living.
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Is Kon Mari contributing to racism?
If your Kon Mari limits your bookshelves to books that bring you joy, you’re bound to ignore the suffering of others in your choice of what books to keep.
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Financial Independence: Why Your Friends Secretly Want You to Fail
Your good life decisions make your friends uncomfortable.
They need you to keep the status quo, to validate their choices. And you’re not anymore.
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Thinning The Soup: How The Great Depression Shaped Me
It’s now been 90 years since the Great Depression, yet its consequences still echo in my daily life.
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Financial Success: Why Your Family Secretly Wants You to Fail
Doing something good makes other people feel guilty.
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Putting the “Merry” back into Christmas: Why I don’t give gifts anymore
In the choice between doing more shopping vs. spending more time drinking eggnog in front of the fire with family and friends, which do you choose?
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Toxic Fallacies: God Will Provide
When “trusting God” is just an excuse to be lazy You’ll see it in many evangelical churches — people with their hands raised to surrender their lives to God’s will. While for some this is a gesture of surrender toward goodness, it can also be a gesture of adopting helplessness. Sometimes “God will provide” just means “I […]
Car-free or car-light? A common sense approach to transportation
One quarter of all trips in the US are one mile or less. It’s time to weigh the logic of when to drive and when to leave the car at home.
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Single and seeking financial independence: Do I have a chance?
Marriage is technically a much easier road to financial independence than singledom. But given our freedom and single-mindedness, we can come out on top.
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