Pecuniarities

It has been a good week for us here at Pecuniarities and I am really excited about some new changes. Here they be (yes, I have been watching Pirates of the Caribbean – the first one – one of Madoline’s and my favorite movies.) Welcome MSN Smart Spending Readers While checking my web stats last [...]

Undoubtedly, the only thing worse than having a “cheap date” is being called one. But in the current economic atmosphere when one should be more concerned with prudence in spending habits, a frugal date, in my mind, is something to be lauded rather than repudiated. After all, dating is all about finding the person you [...]

For those of you who haven’t checked the contest page, our winner for the Wall Street Journal 6-month subscription giveaway is Lisa Spinelli. Congratulations to Lisa and thanks to all who entered. We will be holding more giveaways in the coming year, so stay tuned. (Click here to subscribe to our RSS or Email feed [...]

We hope everyone had a good holiday season. We had a simple and relaxing one staying in, eating our favorite foods (as we had only finished our Thanksgiving turkey a few days before Christmas, we decided to have fish and chips for Christmas), watching our favorite movies (Holiday themed movies on Christmas Eve and Day), [...]

The topic for this month’s PF Bloggers Group Writing Project is our Favorite Christmas Memories. My favorite memory is our first Christmas in our own house, which was 2006. We bought our house in November 2005, but we had to travel out of the country to attend a cousin’s wedding – actually we were bridesmaids [...]

It feels good to get back in the groove of posting regularly again. My cousin lent me an older laptop of his last week so that I can work (on the blog and our other business sites) while Madoline works on her paintings on our PC, and it has made all the difference. As for [...]

Amazon.com is one of our favorites sources for saving not only on books and movies, but groceries and household things as well. We have been shopping on Amazon since 2001 and have never had a bad experience. Whenever we need to buy anything for our home or business, Amazon is the first place I check [...]