Taking the Hard Line: Learning to Just Say No and Tips for Other Alternatives to “Stuff”
This month, we’re focusing on improving your budgeting and money saving skills by working on alleviating society’s addictive consumerism in your life. So far this month, we’ve given you plenty of ways to move toward a “comfort zone” on the scale of reducing how much money you spend on “stuff” and improving your monthly balance column. This is very much in line with our stated mission of respecting everybody’s different definition of the [...]
Favorite President Barack Obama Quotes: Break Through the Fear
"On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to have to break through the fear and frustration that people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future." President Barack Obama Find More of Our Favorite Inspirations Our Favorite Quotes Our De-Stress and [...]
Your Budget is Fine, But Your Happiness Level Isn’t. What To Do?
We’re focusing on budget and finance tips for our New Year’s goals this year, specifically as they relate to how much money you’re spending on “stuff” as a symptom of our country’s addictive consumerism. But what if your budget is just fine, however you’re not happy? Could there still be a budgeting and finance element you could change that would help improve your overall satisfaction with life? The answer is absolutely yes. [...]
Tips for Setting Realistic Budget Goals and Incentives
Every year when we talk about setting goals – be it for reducing clutter, creating budgets or even crafting New Year’s goals, we’re struck with the same common mis-step that individuals seem to take over and over again. Both in our personal lives and in our work with Postconsumers, we see people setting goals that are lofty and “big” in scope. And then we see them become frustrated in the process of reaching [...]
Favorite President Barack Obama Quotes: The Poverty of Ambition
"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential." President Barack Obama Find More of Our Favorite Inspirations Our Favorite Quotes Our De-Stress and Self-Help Section All of Our Inspiration Posts Get More Inspirations on the Social Media [...]
Favorite President Barack Obama Quotes: Somebody Helped Create America
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges." President Barack Obama Find More of Our Favorite Inspirations Our Favorite Quotes Our De-Stress and Self-Help Section All of Our Inspiration Posts Get More Inspirations on the Social Media Channels Below Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Medium
How to Get Started with Figuring Out How Much of Your Budget is Caused by Addictive Consumerism
This month, we’re guiding you through the New Year’s resolution of getting better control of your budget by reducing the amount of your spend that is driven by unhealthy addictive consumerism. It sounds simple enough, right? But chances are reasonably high that this is the first time that you’re hearing about our nation’s “addictive consumerism” and you may not realize how much you may or may not be unnecessarily spending on “stuff” that [...]
Favorite President Barack Obama Quotes: You Can’t Stop
"Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop." President Barack Obama Find More of Our Favorite Inspirations Our Favorite Quotes Our De-Stress and Self-Help Section All of Our Inspiration Posts Get More Inspirations on the Social Media Channels Below Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Medium
Budget Creation and Tracking Tips 101 for the Postconsumer
Our annual New Year’s Goal resolution this year at Postconsumers is getting your budget and spend under control by reducing the grasp of society’s addictive consumerism on you. That’s a long sentence that essentially says we want to help you buy less “stuff” (unless you face deprivation) and be more financially secure! It may sound like a simple process, but one thing that we’ve learned along the way is that, for many people, [...]
Favorite President Barack Obama Quotes: We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek." President Barack Obama Find More of Our Favorite Inspirations Our Favorite Quotes Our De-Stress and Self-Help Section All of Our Inspiration Posts Get More Inspirations on the Social Media Channels Below Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Medium
