The Brothers Spender and Saver: A fictional short-short story

Baby Steps to Wealth

Midlife Malaise, Episode 4: Our Spending, Our Saving

How I've Made Major Spending Choices

A Word With Marty: SPENDING

Baby Steps to Getting Rich Enough

A Realist Talks Money

Finding and Growing Money

The previous installments in this The Quests series are on finding a good job, relationship, peace of mind, place to live, and diet discipline.

In my Psychology Today article today, we turn to money: how to get it, how to grow it.

Do You Want to be More of a Spender or a Saver? Questions to help you achieve your spending goals.

Some people would like to control their tendency to overspend, while others are ready to free themselves from undue frugality.

My Psychology Today article today offers questions and suggestions that should help you achieve your goal. They address both psychological and practical considerations.

The Psychology in Spending and Saving

Like most of our important behaviors, how we deal with money has a psychological component. My Psychology Today article today offers thoughts on how to use that in your favor.

“I Know I Should Be Thrifty But…” Belt-tightening in the time of COVID

The loss of jobs and precariousness of remaining jobs caused by the COVID economic shutdown is forcing people to spend less. That can be hard. My Psychology Today article today offers a composite question and my response

The World's Shortest Course on Your Money: Making it, spending it, investing it

School teaches many things but gives short shrift to money: making it, spending it, investing it.
My PsychologyToday.com article today offers the most important things you need to know. The advice is aimed at young adults but may well be worth reading by people of any age.  It is the advice I’d give a family member.

Are You Spending Too Much?

A 55-year old senior manager who was laid off and despite three diligent months of trying to land a similar paying job, remains without even a good lead.

My PsychologyToday.com article today presents a transcript of part of my session with him about cutting expenses.

Why Many Rich People are Frugal...and Why You Should Be Too

I have a client I'll call Linda Loaded. When making coffee, she is so frugal that she puts less coffee into the coffeemaker than she should, and compensates by, when the coffee is ready, squeezing the filter with the  hot grounds in her hand to get the concentrated coffee into her cup, incurring a bit of pain. To save a few pennies.

She is worth $10 million dollars.

Not surprisingly, I asked her why she does it. That triggered a fascinating discussion. I reproduce it in my PsychologyToday.com article today.