Archive for June, 2010
Monday, June 28th, 2010
The majority of Americans are homeowners, and many of them carry mortgages for much of their adult lives, if not all of it. A mortgage is a loan that has a house as collateral, and it's usually the biggest loan a family will take out.
In this post, I'll describe and ...
Posted in Real Estate | 2 Comments »
Friday, June 25th, 2010
(Thanks to Suburban Dollar for including this post in the Carnival of Personal Finance!)
Well, my Bargaineering Bucks were burning a virtual hole in my electronic pseudo bank account, so I bid on Gregory Karp's The 1-2-3 Money Plan: The Three Most Important Steps to Saving and Spending Smart, ...
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Commenter Marlene on my post on how to value gold jewelry asked this:
Is 14k Italian gold different in price than gold in the USA?
The answer depends on which gold price we're talking about.
On the one hand, there is the retail price of the gold jewelry. This is what you'd pay ...
Posted in Precious Metals | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 14th, 2010
This weekend we went to a yard sale at the YMCA. The yard sale was an event to raise money for the Kids' Spot; people wanting to sell stuff bought a spot within the event, and this money went toward Kids' Spot.
Amongst a bunch of other things we had demanding ...
Posted in Yard Sales | 1 Comment »
