by wwm | Oct 16, 2012 | FromUM, Uncategorized
I read a tweet the other day that said “decluttering is as simple as picking up each item, and making one of the following choices”. It linked to a blog post showing six different options for what you could do with the item. Sigh. The problem has never...
by wwm | May 17, 2012 | FromUM, Uncategorized
A reader raised a fantastic point a ways back. She has a kid, and she has family members that want to help by offering some clothes so she doesn’t have to spend a bunch of money. This comment speaks perfectly to the desire to be frugal and accept the help, while...
by wwm | Apr 25, 2012 | FromUM, Uncategorized
Most people have a positively elephantine amount of possessions. All you have to do is look at the increasing size of homes and the unending construction of more and more “mini-storage” units to see that there’s a problem. Now add to that the fact...
by wwm | Apr 14, 2011 | FromUM, Uncategorized
“But I paid $1000 for that!” This is the sound of frustration, as yet another consumer (we’ll call him Joe) learns a very hard, yet very valuable lesson. Let’s look at how he got here. An Illustration Joe spent $1000 on a piece of exercise...
by wwm | Jan 8, 2011 | FromUM, Uncategorized
Everybody makes a big hoopla about January 1st. Parties are thrown, television specials are aired, people talk about what’s past and what’s to come, and they make resolutions – fantastical promises of what they’re going to accomplish in the...
