List of Posts by Title

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.

• Statement of Solidarity
• Thinking about Starting the “I Can’t Stop Spending!” Podcast Again
• Coronavirus and Compulsive Spenders & Debtors
• Credit Alerts and Freezing Your Credit
• New Kindle/Print Book on Emotional Sobriety
• Reviews for the FREE Fearless Budgeting Training Program!
• The FREE Fearless Budgeting Training Program is Live!
• What You Will Find on This Site
• My 2018 Valentine’s Day Rant
• The Birth of Fearless Budgeting
• New YNAB Training Video Available – Tracking Cash Spending in YNAB
• New Blog Post about My Bankruptcy Experience
• First Spending Plan Training Video Available: Tracking Cash in YNAB
• Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill
• New Blog Post & Podcast Episode Available: “Letter to a Suffering Friend”
• Why “Cash Register Honesty” Pays Off
• 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?
• 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
• 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
• ANNOUNCEMENT
• 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
• 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