Sometimes, you may want to skim to find a post by title instead of searching by category. Below is a listing of all post titles.
- Why “Cash Register Honesty” Pays Off and I’m Seeking Your Opinion
- Letting Go: Why I am Pausing My Podcast and the Remarkable Poem that Led Me There
- Resisting that Irresistible Urge to Spend
- Why I Ignore Valentine’s Day and Why You Should Too!
- Feeling Your Feelings
- Why I Didn’t Pay for My Son’s College Education
- Losing Your Balance
- Getting Off the Seesaw
- Being a Militant Realist
- “Money Diet” vs. Spending Moratorium
- Article on Goals for New Year
- More about Annual Themes
- Paradoxical Reactions & Preparing for the New Year
- A Perfect Day for Recovery
- Gift Giving Guilt
- Pay it Fast or Pay it Slow?
- What You will Find on This Site
- Long Term Abstinence
- Debt-Free at Last!
- Do You Have to be a Debtor to be in DA? Plus a great site for shopaholics!
- Why I’m Not Buying a Lottery Ticket
- Web-Based YNAB: My (Long) In-Depth QA Review
- Launch of Web-Based YNAB!
- Step 12 and the Lost Art of Listening
- 10 Tips for (Sober) Holiday Gift Giving
- Recorded YNAB for DA Members Workshop (Accounts)
- REMINDER! YNAB for DA Members Workshop Tomorrow
- 1st YNAB for DA Members Workshop 11/8/15
- YNAB for DA Members Free Workshop
- I’m Back (Sort of)…
- A (Hopefully) Brief Hiatus
- New Debtors Anonymous 12 Step Booklet
- New DA HOW Information Website
- Anger vs. Resentment
- (Discretionary) Urgency is Our Enemy
- Allocate and Accumulate are my favorite words!
- DA Fellowship Day 8/8/15
- The Life Changing Magic of…
- A Moratorium of a Different Sort
- New! Five Year Recovery Journal is Now Available
- Announcing a New Book!
- I am Not Recovered
- A 12 Step Prayer Book … and What’s Next
- A Movie Worth Watching and My Conundrum
- An Embarrassing Amends…
- The Tool of Awareness
- Cash and Prizes
- Distracted to Distraction
- The Retention Department
- Inciting a Riot
- A Debt is a Debt is a Debt
- A History Lesson
- The Daily Reader is Done!
- Can You Relate to This?
- Sample #14 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #13 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- StyleCaster.com Article on “Online Shopping Addiction”
- Sample #12 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #11 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #10 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #9 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #8 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Lessons Learned
- “One Member, One Action” Day to Celebrate DA’s Anniversary
- Sample #7 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #6 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #5 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #4 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Abstinence and Solvency Revisited
- Sample #3 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #2 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Sample #1 from the Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders
- Update on Daily Reader and Sample Pages Coming Soon!
- Budgets vs. Spending Plans
- Self-Serving or Serving Others
- DA HOW Questions
- And the Truth Will Set You Free!
- Great Debtors Anonymous Resources
- Annual Valentine’s Day Rant – 2015
- “Economics of a Kickstarter Project”
- Success BDA-Style
- Hallelujah! Talking to Your Kids About Money
- “Maybe I’ll Start Saving When I’m 70”
- The Final Straw
- Crowd Funding for a Compulsive Spender
- Staying True to What I Know
- Daily Reader for Compulsive Debtors and Spenders Coming Soon!
- “Must and Should”
- Spending Moratorium
- Question about DA HOW & Debting
- Are Justice and Compassion Mutually Exclusive?
- Recovering VS. Recovered
- Excellent 12 Step Meditation Article
- Sponsor/Sponsee Breakups
- Valentine’s Day: A Plea for Sanity
- Leaving Program…
- Four Cents
- Money, Not Magic
- Correction: 2014: Starting a New Year in YNAB
- Pouring Gasoline on a Fire
- There is a Difference…
- Time
- Now
- Gray is the Color of Recovery
- Gratitude on Thanksgiving
- 10,000 Hours
- Taking the Spending Plan Seriously
- Waiting
- Spending that First Compulsive Dollar
- Fantastic Article in Q2 2012 Ways and Means
- Bill W. – Compulsive Debtor?
- Announcement – We’re Back!
- Anniversary Announcement
- Potato Chips
- Vision or Hallucination?
- Obsession & Craving
- Entitlement Part 2
- Entitlement Part 1
- Gateway to Recovery
- Debit Cards VS. Cash
- “Ways & Means”
- Lost and Found Category
- Equanimity – My New Favorite Word
- Thank you John H and the DA “Oldtimers”
- Life on Life’s Terms
- ANNOUNCEMENT
- Writing and Service
- Pain VS. Misery
- Progress Not Perfection
- Great Article on the Value of Categories
- So, How Much Time Does DA H.O.W. Take?
- The Hidden Promises
- How to Accrue in Categories
- Part 4: The DA Promises
- Part 3: The DA Promises
- Part 2: The DA Promises
- Part 1: The DA Promises
- The Big Book Promises
- Part 2 – Step 9: Amends & Forgiveness
- Part 1 – Step 9: Amends & Forgiveness
- Call for DA H.O.W. Bloggers
- Never Hitting Bottom
- Step 5: The Easy Part
- Best Step 4 Explanation Ever!
- Step 3 is the Doorway to Recovery
- Step 2 is the Glue that Keeps Us in Program
- The Value of Silence
- Part 2: Depriver or Spender
- Part 1: Depriver or Spender
- New Facebook Page
- A Revelation about Art and Business
- Announcement
- Lending Money
- Shipping Costs are a Thorn in My Side
- Part II – Chronic Health Issues & Going Down the Rabbit Hole
- Part I – Chronic Health Issues & Going Down the Rabbit Hole
- Not Spending Money as a Spiritual Practice
- YNAB Interview
- Daily Inventory is Important
- Vagueness is Our Enemy
- History of DA
- Complications
- Advice VS. Experience, Strength, and Hope
- Communicating with Creditors
- 2013 Taxes Already?!
- Why Me? Why Not?
- Disappointment is Not Fatal
- Clarifying Abstinence
- Sayings from DA’s Founder
- It’s Specific, Not Different
- What Does Fame Feel Like?
- Bucket Lists
- Having Money Before Spending It
- Pressure Relief Group (PRG) – Part 2
- Pressure Relief Group (PRG) – Part 1
- Reflection is the Third Key
- Should It Be a Hobby or Business?
- The Key to Patience
- The DA Dilemma of Disability
- Can You Out-Earn Your Disease?
- Is Your Life Unmanageable?
- Fear of Death
- Bigger is Not Always Better
- The Day After Thanksgiving – The Day for Amateurs
- Thanksgiving & Gratitude
- Prosperity & Abundance Don’t Always Mean Cash
- Program as Practice
- Do I deserve that?
- Prison or Freedom?
- Principles of DA
- Willingness & Our Defects (Step 6)
- Steps 6 & 7 Made Simple
- Fighting with the Pharmacy
- Giving Service at Meetings
- Program Burnout … a Plea to Sponsors & Members
- Lao Tzu Inspiration
- Step 4 Gets Easier with Time…
- Savings VS. Debt Repayment
- About Fear
- Month End & Month Beginning
- Forgiveness
- More about Resentments
- 4th Step Tips
- Resentment & Forgiveness
- Does Money Equal Love?
- Creativity & Money Part 2
- Creativity & Money Part 1
- Recovery and Desire in DA
- Why 3 Slips & You are Dropped?
- Visions VS. Self-Will
- Calling Your Sponsor on Time
- Meaning of H.O.W.
- Day 2 and Beyond Without a Sponsor
- If You are New and Don’t Have a Sponsor…
- Receiving Gifts
- Giving Gifts
- Part 4: Children, Parents, & Money
- Sovency and Abstinence
- Part 3: Partners & Money
- Part 2: Relationship Challenges & Money
- Relationship Challenges & Money
- Split Transactions with Both Inflows and Outflows
- Split Transactions
- I Got a Passport!
- Tracking Sporadic Income
- The Conundrum of Cash
- Steps to Reconciling with Your Bank Account
- Bank Reconciliation is Essential
- Comfort is Overrated
- Willingness and Delayed Gratification
- New Documentary on Bill Wilson (Bill W)
- Meditation – An important component of Step 11
- Sponsors are Not Your Higher Power
- Where to Begin for Beginners
- How I Work the DA (H.O.W.) Program
- How Many Categories Do You Need?
- Living in the Next Month
- Free Spending Plan Spreadsheet available (no longer available – other options listed)
- Remembering
- My Favorite Spending Plan Software
- Parts of a Spending Plan
