Coming up on my one-year anniversary in my carpool, I recently wrote a post about how it is saving me $6,800/year according to this cost calculator. (I have a 100 mile round trip, and five carpool partners). I’m also saving a lot of carbon emissions, and arriving at work and back at home sweeter and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'money'
Top Ten Tips For Carpooling, Part I
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · 97215, carpooling, cars, simplicity, sustainability, thrift, work
Top Five New Years Resolutions That Make A Difference
December 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment · 97215, Oregon, carbon footprint, consumption, culture, energy, global warming, green living, life, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, thrift
I’m back after a break spent with family, helping my mother-in-law Joan pass away peacefully at Providence Hospital here in Portland. Joan was a passionate soul who believed in making the world a better place. For that reason and because she cultivated thrift during the Great Depression like most of her generation, I think she [...]
Tags: Amtrak·carbon offsets·money·New Years resolutions·sacrifice
The Flow Of Wine And Money, Part II
December 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized, community, consumption, entertainment, food, life, lifestyle, simplicity, thrift
Earlier this month in Part I of The Flow of Wine and Money I noted that wine and libation are linked to the sociability I love — yet they’re a luxury, in the face of a nation and world that are way financially stressed.
We all know that what gets measured, gets managed. I had [...]
Tags: alcohol·herbert.feutl·money·wine
How To Slash Your Heating Bill
December 23rd, 2008 · 7 Comments · Oregon, Uncategorized, energy, energy conservation, green living, happiness, thrift
Tomorrow I’ll write about living successfully with others — skills that can enable us to save tens of thousands of dollars over our lifetimes while also slashing the emissions that drive global warming. (It will be a follow-up to my guest post appearing today at Get Rich Slowly).
Today, tips on reducing our heating bills. The [...]
Tags: insulation·money·winter
Decoupling Christmas From Spending
December 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · 97215, Oregon, consumption, culture, economics, green living, happiness, health, lifestyle, outdoors, relationships, thrift
It’s about time that I write about Christmas, given that my blog is about happiness and consumption. I suggest we can decouple Christmas from spending, especially overspending, i.e. we can celebrate Christmas happily while living within our means, and the earth’s means.
What we all need is a rich quality of life: loving relationships; health; meaningful [...]
