Money Psychology

I woke up Saturday morning eager to clean my apartment.  My excitement surprised me. Six months earlier, I had resigned myself to the idea that a smaller space meant cleaning professionals were no longer necessary (yet another cost-efficient benefit of downsizing), the way you might resign yourself to getting up early for the gym or […]

I spent the weekend in a cabin just south of Breckenridge that appeared to be constructed with Lincoln Logs. It was a gumdrop surrounded by towering fir trees, the lighting soft and warm. Aspens tore peels of shimmering gold into the mountainside. Exploring the cabin’s cozy insides, I felt like one of the claymation figures […]

This essay contains copious White Lotus season 3 spoilers. If you’re not caught up, please stop whatever else you’re doing and go spend the next eight hours in front of your TV, which is the only screen we’re celebrating today. Timothy Ratliff is screwed. While on vacation at a fictional resort in Thailand called the […]

House-hunting in any US city will cause one simple question to bulldoze all the others: How can so many people afford to buy these houses? If you typically feel pretty good about your financial progress and you’d like to not feel good about it, there’s no activity I recommend more. Last weekend, my husband and […]