The cash cure: Can it help you reduce your debt?  By Justin
Boyle  Personal finance advisors can suggest all kinds of ways
for you to get the debt monkey off your back. Most of these
methods use a sort of technological approach to your money
struggles, like negotiating zero percent balance transfers
between credit cards or making use of budgeting software like
QuickBooks and Excel.  A few friends of mine in Austin, the
free-spirited and unorthodox capital city of Texas, are taking a
considerably low-tech approach to money management that's
proving impressively effective. They are, if you can believe it,
carrying cash.  The story of the cash renaissance  It might come
across as odd that Austin, known in some circles as "Silicon
Hills" for its booming tech industry, is serving as an incubator
of what seems like a technological step backwards when it comes
to personal finance management. According to my Austin friends,
though, the decision to switch from plastic to paper came about
like a lot of things do in the