Pecuniarities

Our Fourpence Worth will be hosting the 16th Edition of the Finance Fiesta blog carnival this Thursday September 18, 2008. Frugal and personal finance bloggers, be sure to submit your posts. Categories for this carnival include: Budgeting Techniques, Career Development, Responsible Use of Credit, Economics, Current Events, Money Management, Debt Repayment, Saving Methods and More. [...]

Our Fourpence Worth has the privilege of hosting two prominent finance and frugal living blog carnivals next week. If you’re a blogger, be sure and submit your personal finance and frugal living articles. If you’re a blog reader, be sure and stop by for recommendations for great reads. Festival of Frugality 139th Edition Tuesday, August [...]

While browsing the WiseBread Forums today, I came across an interesting thread in which a member asks: Is “Simple Living” Just Another Term for “Giving Up”? Several members responded with various opinions: There is a difference between simple living and forced poverty. Not everyone enjoys the rat race. It’s a choice. It’s a form of [...]

To celebrate our new Money Tree blog theme (if you’re reading this post in a reader, come and check it out!), I thought I would post a facetious poem that Madoline wrote a while back. The quote in our new header comes from the first line of this poem titled ‘Tis Not a Crime to [...]

A few days ago, I came across a thread on a forum where a member wrote about something dishonest she had done in order to save money. This individual was cleaning out her kitchen pantry and came across some jars of pasta sauce that she had gotten in a Buy One Get One Free sale [...]

I would like to introduce to you today the foremost of money saving tips: staying home. I am not talking about staying in instead of going to a movie on a Friday night, but something much more fundamental and often overlooked. Allowing this philosophy and the following ideas a permanent space in your consciousness is [...]

The iVillage website is hosting a 30-day program called “Save Money, Make Money Community Challenge,” starting on March 3, 2008. It looks like you sign up with your email address and you will receive daily money saving tips and information on getting your personal finances in order. Here is the brief description from the website: [...]