Comments on: Frugality is a career tool

By: How to move to another city « Consulting Girl Blog

How to move to another city « Consulting Girl Blog — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:37:04 +0000

[...] but here goes. Give up your attachment to material goods. Be discriminating in your purchases. Figure out what your bare essentials are and live on them. Most days, I live out of a carry-on plus my awesome laptop purse. I've also figured out ways [...]

By: 5 Good Reasons to Curb Your Spending | Quicken Personal Finance Blog

5 Good Reasons to Curb Your Spending | Quicken Personal Finance Blog — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:09:57 +0000

[...] every five years. If you want to live in NYC then you have to do a job that earns a lot of money. I accept these tradeoffs very well for careers, and then I complain to people who don’t do as well as I do in the making-choices [...]

By: Gold & Silver Prices

Gold & Silver Prices — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:02:00 +0000

so what is it that makes being frugal in this day and age so difficult? and also why should one be in they have the resources to use. we have one life to live so better live it.

By: Creativity, Lust, and Perceived Consequence « armeredith.wordpress.com

Creativity, Lust, and Perceived Consequence « armeredith.wordpress.com — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:41:31 +0000

[...] spending money is a commitment that I don't want to make. I don't make much money that I get to keep (thanks, student [...]

By: mm

mm — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:42:23 +0000

I just relocated to Madison. I assume you are talking WI, as that's the biggest Madison I know.

It is a darn expensive place to live. Homes are not reasonably priced. Rental homes run well over $1000/month. The few apartments I looked at in town were $500 a month for the upstairs of a house one of the seven dwarfs would have felt was too small…and when I asked the landlord why there were small boards nailed at odd places on the walls, he told me they were "access points" to the pipes when they froze…nice.

Madison sucks when it comes to finding a place to live.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:13:06 +0000

It all boils down to differentiating between needs and wants, doesn't it? And I do believe that the global recession has made many people open their eyes and make this distinction even when they weren't aware of it before.

By: Geoff Graham | Web. Copywriting. Geek.

Geoff Graham | Web. Copywriting. Geek. — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:51:41 +0000

[...] as a required step for success. Just hours after posting my thoughts, Google Reader fired up another new post by Penelope Trunk that continues the failure [...]

By: Stanley Lee » Blog Archive » Why is the Nomadic Lifestyle a Perfect one?

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:02:47 +0000

[...] ago, reading some blog entries from Penelope Trunk (navigating through a quarterlife crisis and frugality being a career tool), and talking to various location independence advocates on Brazen Careerist, I have confirmed that [...]

By: Ranjeet Kapoor

Ranjeet Kapoor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:22:37 +0000

"…It’s a focus frugality. It’s the recognition that spending money is actually a distraction from the passion at hand.."
Very true. When we are dedicated to a higher aim in our life, what matters is spending time wisely and that is were someone of big ideas like you 'Lives life king size'.

By: Katina Blue

Katina Blue — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:03:43 +0000

Penelope, I think you hit on some very good points, things that I discuss with my friends all the time. When trying to live frugally, it seems that somehow you become a victim of what other people require for you to make it in their idea of the world. The fact that you had to buy an expensive status symbol vehicle is proof of this. I also try to live a frugal life, without getting caught up in the stuff that the Amercian dream is supposedly made of. I find that I am better able to complete my goals when one of the goals does not include spending unecessarily.