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What's In Your Wallet? (You Don't Have To Say)

You can talk finances with your friends -- without making enemies. In this excerpt from her new book, Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manners, Robin Abrahams shows you how.

By Robin Abrahams
May 24, 2009

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"Save, spend, splurge" is the financial equivalent of the famous stress responses "fight, flight, freeze." Always, people have differed at least as much in how they treat their money -- saving or spending or splurging -- as in how much they have. (Full article: 1048 words)

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