Avoid overspending with these tips for your inner shopaholic… For those of you that are vulnerable to flash sales, today’s U.S. News and World Report has an article that I was interviewed for with practical tips to reduce your risk of overshopping when these highly tempting triggers are at your fingertips. To access the article,… Continue reading How to Guard Yourself From Flash Sales
Author: Carrie Rattle
Carrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors. She has worked in the financial services industry for 20+ years and hopes to inspire women to better prepare themselves for financial independence.
The Plants Not Taken
Kid in a candy store or bull in a china shop—which metaphor’s the more apt? At various times, either one: visiting a plant nursery can be (and has been) an overbuying trigger of the first order for me. Scents, textures, and colors, the forms of the flowers and the fruits of the vines and the… Continue reading The Plants Not Taken
Focusing on What Is Most Important Leads to a Better Life
It is very easy in a consumer-driven, capitalistic society to both lose our focus and to lose track of the things most important in life. Instead of forming our own values and being true to them, many of us adopt the desires thrust on us from advertisements and cultural pressures. We have no idea what… Continue reading Focusing on What Is Most Important Leads to a Better Life
Becoming Minimalist: Ashley’s Story
Ashley loves the “American Dream”: life with health, a home, family, and the pursuit of happiness. She feels, however, that the dream has developed into a Jekyll and Hyde situation. People seem more interested in the pursuit of wealth than anything else and happiness doesn’t necessarily follow. She feels a need for balance and a… Continue reading Becoming Minimalist: Ashley’s Story
Review of The Book ‘To Die For—Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?’ by Lucy Siegle
‘To Die For—Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?’ is a thought-provoking, well-researched book concerning the affects of current fashion and rabid consumerism on our societies and on the planet. Jill Chivers, creator of the My Year Without Clothes Shopping website and related program, reviews this book and highlights some startling facts. For instance, much of… Continue reading Review of The Book ‘To Die For—Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?’ by Lucy Siegle
5 Tips to Help Rebuild Credit Score
Having a bad credit score can be scary but with time and effort your score can be rebuilt. Here are five steps you can take to improve your score: 1) Streamline your debts: Consider debt consolidation. 2) Create a budget: Write down your income and what you spend your money on, keep a spending journal. … Continue reading 5 Tips to Help Rebuild Credit Score
What Men Can Teach Women About Shopping
Men and women have very different approaches when it comes to shopping. Women tend to search for the best deals and often shopping becomes a time consuming hobby or emotional release. Men, however, go into a store with a target purchase in mind and with less regard for cost. They take as little time as… Continue reading What Men Can Teach Women About Shopping
How Simplicity Appeals to the Heart
Joshua Becker defines minimalism as “the intentional promotion of the things I most value and the removal of everything that distracts me from it.” In his writing and speaking, he has come to believe that simplicity leads to joy and so appeals to our hearts. Our hearts know the truth, Becker suggests; that possessions don’t… Continue reading How Simplicity Appeals to the Heart
Similarities Between Behavioral and Substance Addictions
Drugs and alcohol get our “feel good” chemicals going, which can lead to physical dependency when we want to experience that feeling again. Did you know behaviors can have the same result? Things like shopping, sex, lying, stealing, and even eating can lead to addictions that are as tough to beat as any drug. Addiction… Continue reading Similarities Between Behavioral and Substance Addictions
Frugal and Productive Ways to Kill Time Before a Flight
Tempted to overspend while you wait for a flight? Financial Highway offers some great alternatives. Suggestions include asking about a late check out option at your hotel, purchasing a spa pass if your hotel offers it for a workout or a swim, taking advantage of happy hour snacks and beverages at greatly reduced prices, joining… Continue reading Frugal and Productive Ways to Kill Time Before a Flight