Give till it hurts

How to preserve history

A turning point on the road to progress

Reader question: Where to throw a wedding party?
This question came from my last wedding post: Being recently engaged as well, I am thoroughly enjoying your wedding posts! While my side of the family is paying for the wedding, they have said they want a nice sit down dinner (like every other wedding) on a Saturday night- my mom was even pushing me from picking a Friday date. My fiancé

9 ways to give without stretching your wallet
This has been a tough year for a lot of people. It’s also the season of giving. As a pre-Thanksgiving gift, Get Rich Slowly came up with a list of nine creative, low-cost ways to help charitable organizations. I’ve used a couple of the tips this week already. Yesterday, I mailed a check to the

Skip the $60,000 wedding; save it for the honeymoon?
Some new notes on the wedding planning process: 1. I’ve been discussing wedding industry prices with an engaged friend in California. Yesterday, he shared this observation: My brother and his wife spent big on a NYC wedding at a hotel… band… ballroom… lots of food… etc., etc. I don’t remember what was served or whether it was any good. Neither does he. His advice to (fiance’s name) and I was to NOT do that. I

Don’t know how to crack an egg? This product’s for you!
Unclutterer recently added the entertaining EZ Cracker to its Unitasker file: Yours for only $19.99! It comes with two additional pieces of potential clutter, too.

Questions and answers on personal filing
Two readers had questions on last week’s guest post about how to set up a personal filing system. Here they are, with a two-part answer from professional organizer Neil Bindelglass. Question: This is something I have tried to get a handle on several times before. My main issue is knowing what I need to keep and for how long? I’ve seen d