Archive for August, 2009
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
I visited my parents this past weekend. My mother was telling me about what happened at a recent garage sale she went to. Someone was selling a Corning Ware cornflower piggy bank. These were made in England, and they're very hard to find now.
The lady had marked the pig with ...
Posted in Deals and Steals | 21 Comments »
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
DINKs Finance jogged my memory of this U.S. National Debt Clock in a recent post, so I popped over to check it out.
Of course, it's mostly really bad news: $11.7 trillion on the national debt; another person gets unemployed every 20 seconds; the unfunded liabilities like Social Security, Medicare, and ...
Posted in Debt Reduction, Economy | 2 Comments »
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
We drove up to my parents this weekend. On the way through central PA my wife saw a sign in someone's lawn:
Cash for Clunkers is War on the Middle Class
There was an interesting discussion over at Money Quantum (request a pre-launch invitation) on the topic of economic stimulus. Flexo posed ...
Posted in Commentary, Economy | 8 Comments »
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
This past weekend I went up to DC with a friend from church to hear a free big-band jazz concert. Three different bands were battling it out.
The participants? The Navy Commodores, the Army Blues, and the Airmen of Note.
The talent on the stage was absolutely disgusting. The drummers ranged from ...
Posted in Free Stuff | 1 Comment »
