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When you are poor, managing your expenses is fairly easy. If you don't have money, it's hard to justify buying anything non-essential.   Lack of money breeds a mentality of cheap living out of necessity. But as your household income grows, your ability to spend on non-essentials grows with it. How many people have seen their income double over five to ten years but have nothing to show for it?

The problem is that as income increases, our mindset changes. We begin to think we are wealthier and our tastes and expenses undermine our income progress. Over years, we develop a sense of entitlement from thousands of hours of hard work. After all, we earned it, didn't we?

But it's that sense of entitlement that keeps us from becoming wealthy. If you want to get rich, you have to mentally act as if you are poor, even if you are a long way from that. Here's five assumptions you can make that will help you build wealth by curtailing your expenditures.

Here's some of the best articles on the web today related to living cheap, personal finance, and saving money.

From Whole Foods to Food Stamps: New writer Sierra @GetRichSlowly.org has a great article that will make you question if you really are that secure in your Middle Class lifestyle.  She chronicles a Professional woman's sudden financial free-fall that will really get you thinking.  If you read nothing else on today's list, read this one.