Archive for March, 2011
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
There's a place for spin, and then there's a place for silliness. A Forbes.com article on MSN gives six reasons that should encourage you to love your mortgage. Some may argue that the Forbes.com take on mortgages is a glass-is-half-full position, but I don't even think it passes that sniff ...
Posted in Commentary, Mortgages | 3 Comments »
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
This book caught my eye at Borders, so I flipped through the pages a bit and bought the book off of Amazon when I got home. (I'm probably not doing my part to help Borders out of bankruptcy, but oh well.) Jeff Yeager's The Cheapskate Next Door is a well-researched ...
Posted in Book Reviews, Frugal Living, Three Green Rs | No Comments »
Friday, March 4th, 2011
When we moved from our old house to the new one, we left a house with a septic tank and went to one that was served by our county's sewer service. Having one over the other isn't that much different, I suppose. They both do the job. Having a septic ...
Posted in Frugal Living, Kids and money, Three Green Rs | No Comments »
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Food and drinks out of vending machines are sold at ridiculous mark-ups, but sometimes that extra bit of concentration that a snack or a soda is what's needed to get through the mid-afternoon slump -- that time when the brain is screaming "nap" and the stomach is yelling "feed me." ...
Posted in Frugal Living | 2 Comments »
