Articles from the Afford Anything archive dating back to 2011.
Afford Anything turns 3 years old! (Which is 87 in blog years, as my friend J. Money says.) This lil’ website officially launched on March 1, 2011, with a handful of posts about (what else?) retirement and travel. Little did I know, at the time, that the Afford Anything tribe would begin brewing a rebellion ……
We ought to spend time and money in a way that’s aligned with our values. In reality, our spending habits are often tied to other people’s expectations of us. **** Humans are social creatures. The people in our lives influence us, both consciously and in subtle ways we never realize. We decide that we “should”…
There seem to be two prevailing attitudes when it comes debt: the “Bring it On!” camp, and the “Won’t Touch It With A Ten-Foot Pole” camp. Here’s a secret: both attitudes will make you poor. Debt: “Bring it ON!” One camp of people are nonchalant about it. Five-year car loan? No problem. (After all, I…
Let me tell you what this site is NOT about. It’s not about clipping coupons. It’s not about putting your dreams on hold. It’s not about wasting your life in a cubicle, under a flickering florescent light, battling rush-hour traffic, so that you can barely eek out an existence. This site is about using money…