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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
What's more, there are likely a few more appliances that I'd be eager to buy used, even though there are more efficient, "greener" versions being made today.
I mentioned in the roundup that we bought a used clothes washer and dryer. We found the advertisement on our local Craigslist, went up, ...
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
I do software development at work. A term that gets thrown around a bit is code smell. It's a catch-all for any number of programming practices that indicate more serious underlying problems, or that indicate that quick fixes were made that will be more costly to maintain down the road.
Basically, ...
Posted in Budgeting, Personal Finance, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Happy Friday the 13th. Check out these lucky links from my reader:
Five Cent Nickel has a guest post from Money Help for Christians with several good tips on how to find a good deal.
Digerati Life reminds us that not all cheap houses are bargains.
The Simple Dollar relates the Hawthorne ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
ChristianPF discussed how badly some mail-order cash-for-gold places pay. The linked showed proof of a wide range of payments, ranging from peanuts to tiny peanuts. While a pawn shop would pay $50 for a particular amount of gold chain, the three mail-order cash-for-gold companies paid $37.67, $11.50, and $5.70.
But even ...
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