Ecofrugal Living

Once again, my apologies for being late with the blog. I do have a good excuse this time; my sister's family was visiting from Sunday th...

Brian and I have just completed our first full month of retirement. Brian left his job in mid-February, and my last remaining client cut me ...

This week, Brian finally did something he's been wanting to do for years: He quit his job. He is now officially retired, financially ind...

A big part of living ecofrugally is finding ways to fix problems without throwing a lot of money at them. Just in the past week, we've ...

About a month ago, I went to the doctor and had some bloodwork done. The thing I was concerned about (blood hemoglobin) was fine, but the my...

It will probably come as a shock to absolutely no one that I have never had a gym membership. This is partly because I'm cheap and partl...

This weekend was the annual (virtual) fall conference for Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL), a climate group I've been involved with since 2...

If you've been reading my blog for several years, you may have noticed that I did not run my usual Thrift Week series this past week, as...

The U.S. health care system is a mess. It's a chaotic hodgepodge of competing private insurers that all cover different things at differ...

Just a quick post here regarding my latest Money Crashers article on emergency room costs. I've already covered the benefits of going to...

A quick update here to tell you about my three latest pieces on Money Crashers. The first is about one of my favorite subjects, books — spec...

Just a quick post about my latest Money Crashers article,  which is about finding affordable mental health care. This is a particularly time...

Money Crashers has published three of my articles in the past week. The first is not so much a new article as a spin-off from an old one: my...

Money Crashers has just posted the third article of my four-part series on Medicare. I didn't set out to write a four-part series, mind ...

Money Crashers has finally published an article of mine that's been in the works for a while. As you may recall, back in my article on t...

Back in December , I had a piece published on Money Crashers that was meant to provide a broad overview of the Medicare system. However, thi...

Last week, I installed the last of the replacement heads I had stored up for our Fuchs Ecotek toothbrushes. I'd known this day was comin...

Several of my new articles for Money Crashers dropped yesterday and today, covering a variety of topics. First up is a piece on home power g...