Pecuniarities

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: [...]

If you make money working on your own, such as blogging with Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, etc., you will very likely have received a Form 1099-MISC for miscellaneous income by the beginning of February. And you will need to file and pay self-employment tax. The first year I had to file self-employment tax, I was [...]

We were first introduced to open source software in 2005 by a cousin who works in the computer industry. He told us there was a group of people who believed that computer software should be available to anyone who wanted or needed it to freely use, develop and share, and that people had developed completely [...]

About This Blog  >>  More About Us  >>  Ludwig and Wolfgang  >>  Our Shop We (2 sisters, ages 27 and 28 as of this writing) were born in San Francisco, CA, grew up in Japan, Taiwan and Hawaii where we lived for 16 years until after graduating from college. One of us has a B.A. in Vocal Music Performance and the [...]

 About This Blog  >>  More About Us  >>  Ludwig and Wolfgang  >>  Our Shop We are 2 sisters in our mid-late twenties who discovered the concept of frugality several years ago when we quit our full-time jobs in Hawaii where good employment is scarce, and moved to California in search of a way of life that would allow us to work [...]