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I agree with some of the earlier posters. In fact, given the percentage of non-seniors who spend more than they earn (typically estimated at 30-60%, depending on how you define it and demographics), seniors seem to be doing a much better job, on average, of living within their means than the...

Thanks Sarah in SC, glad you enjoyed them. Yes it’s pretty ironic, as I think I pointed out in “Cheapskate Next Door”, that the average college student with student loans graduates after four years with about $27,000 in student loan debt, which is almost exactly the average cost of four years of...

Hey - NW-Bound. Thanks for asking, but they're doing WAAAAAAY too well. Really taking over the place, even though I eat pretty much nothing but bamboo shoot between May 1 and June 10 every year! You can see just some of the cheapskate's bamboo thicket in this picture, growing next to my beloved...

Thanks sparkee and (again) ejw93. I'm hoping things settle down for me soon, and I'll be able to spend more time around here again. As I recall, someone needs to keep an eye on TromboneAl. ;-) Stay Cheap! -Jeff Yeager

Hi ejw93 - thanks for the review. It was a fun book to write and I'm very proud of it. Stay Cheap! -Jeff Yeager

Living on Social Security alone? Gosh, I hope I don't get in trouble for posting this, but I'm sure the mods will let me know if it's inappropriate (sorry in advance if it is ;-) I'm Jeff Yeager (aka "The Ultimate Cheapskate") and I'm looking to do some short telephone interviews with retired...

Thanks for all the comments, folks. I did another (very) short segment on the Today Show this morning (7/9), just before Lady Ga Ga performed her free concert in Rockefeller Plaza and a sudden downpour broke out. I think there's an ancient Mayan legend that says when Lady Ga Ga and the...

If you know where the "real money" is, please send it my way! In fact, I just posted a picture of it on milk cartons across the country. ;-)

My advice: As a "business model" you're better off just sniffing the glue and calling it a night ;-)

Thanks for the comments folks. And, yeah, I get it ... "I'm tooooo cheap to buy your book!" In fact, the publisher called the other day with good news/bad news about book sales: "The good news, Jeff, is that more than a million people have read your books," he said. "The bad news is...

Hey Folks - Sorry to be MIA for so long around here. Been busy with the release of my new book, but the good news is that my next book looks like it's going to be about early retirement, so you can bet I'll be picking some brains around here in the months ahead. If anyone's interested...

So, "Is that a bamboo shoot, or are you just happy to see me again?" Let me see if I can post a picture.

Welcome aboard. Sounds like you have your schtuff together. Great to see, particularly at such a young age. Me: Too young for Medicare, too old for women to care (per Kinky Friedman, America's greatest living philosopher).

Sorry to be absent here for a while, but this is foraging season you know, and, as I've always said, "A squirrel waits for no man." Seriously, got some tasty fiddle head ferns, wild onions, and Mr. Gibbon's favorite - wild asparagus - this spring. PLUS - drum roll please - a handful of morel...

Al - Those are some clips of the segments I hosted last year ($aving Green by Living Green) on Discovery's Planet Green network. No joke: It's a cable network, and since I don't have cable, I've never seen the entire show. Also, if anyone's interested, here's a link to the interview I did...

Nords - The only thing I know about blogging etiquette is that I seem to violate it every time I log on! The best way to keep up with me, if anyone's interested, is via The Daily Green.com, where I blog weekly as The Green Cheapskate. The blog also appears on Yahoo Green, and will hopefully...

Thanks for noticing my woeful neglect of my website.:whistling: It's been a lower priority for me lately, in part because I blog every week on a couple of big high-traffic websites (e.g. Hearst's The Daily Green.com), which has taken most of my online time/effort. BUT, since you reminded me, I...

Hey Nords - Maybe so, but there are soooooo many other issues to consider, like getting a self-published book in to book stores (good luck), getting mainstream media, etc. Not that self publishing can't work, but when you look at the stats for it, you'd better expect to lose money - not make...

Dex - Recently my "writing process" has been very slow and dreadful.;) In general, to get published by a commercial publisher these days (as opposed to self-publishing), you need to first land a literary agent, which is usually more difficult than then landing a publisher, since agents only...

Hey Folks - Thanks ... my Inner Miser is blushing. Of course I ain't teaching most of the folks who post here anything new, but then again most Americans don't have the good judgment to visit a site like this and LBYM. Sorry I've been MIA around here recently, but I'm knee-deep in the new...

Thanks for the clarification, Nords. You know, I'm just very sensitive about challenges to my Cheaphood. In fact just the other day a friend of mine questioned my credentials as both a cheapskate and an environmentalist (I'm proudly both) when he found out that I use disposable razors. "What...

Hey - Welcome aboard - sounds like you're doing well on the road to ER. So well, in fact, would you consider adopting? I'm a 50 year old, balding cheapskate, well behaved (except for the beer), willing to help around the house. ;-) Stay Cheap! -Jeff Yeager

Nords - "but apparently real"? Nords, you can just ask my poooooor wife if I'm the genuine McMiser or not. She'll vouch for me. Poooor thing. You know, I have a special device to keep anyone other than me from turning up the thermostat. My pooor wife calls it my "chastity belt" for the...

No, sorry, I toured Dayton earlier this year. I'm now headed for events in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago-area, and Toledo. If anyone wants details, just send me a private message. Of course my poooooor wife is happy to be rid of me for a couple of weeks.

Yeah, Boxkicker, you're a cheapskate after my own heart. Simple is best. BTW, did we by any chance meeting during the marathon Midwest book tour I'm doing a present? Stay Cheap! -Jeff Yeager