Our life is frittered away by detail. ... I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ... Simplify, simplify.

-- Henry David Thoreau, from Walden

You may not agree with all of Thoreau's views (such as the uselessness of the post office), but on the value of simplifying our lives, he had a point. Most of us, by the time we're well into our adulthoods, have rather complicated lives and financial affairs. Simplifying them can improve our financial condition -- and perhaps provide peace of mind.

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