Pecuniarities

We would like to thank the following Blog Carnivals for featuring our posts.
(This list will be updated to include future inclusions for the month of June 2008.)
Descending chronologically by inclusion date

June 25, 2008
Finance Fiesta 4: Cerveza Edition
Article: Monopoly Game Expansion #2: Personal Checking Account
June 23, 2008
Carnival of Personal Finance #158 : Vampire Slaying Edition
Article: Monopoly [...]

With the charms of summer also come not-so-charming and unwelcome visitors. With consistent 100+ degree weather in the desert we call home, 6- and 8-legged visitors (or really more like trespassers) are almost a regular part of life. But we have discovered a few safe and relative effective ways to keep the trespasser traffic under [...]

If this is your first time here, please consider subscribing to our RSS Feed to receive tips on frugal living, personal finance and saving money in everyday life. (We have just begun publishing a new series of Monopoly Financial Education Game Expansions for teaching players about personal finance, money management and investing principles and will [...]

Expansion difficulty/complexity level: Easy
This is a basic savings account add-on for the Monopoly game to teach the principles of personal savings. The rules are few, with easy to calculate interest rates and a simple form to keep track of each player’s individual savings. While the interest rates are higher (for easy calculation) than they would [...]

Our Fourpence Worth has the privilege of hosting the 3rd Edition of the Finance Fiesta this Thursday June 19, 2008. The Finance Fiesta is a new personal finance blog carnival which features articles covering a broad range of topics including but not limited to the following:

Budgeting Techniques
Career Development
Responsible Use of Credit
Economics
Money Management
Debt Repayment
Saving Methods

If you [...]

As kids, Madoline and I loved playing Monopoly. We enjoyed accumulating property, building hotels and watching the money roll in. We used to play to the extent of having to use calculators to keep track of our individual wealth after exhausting the bank’s supply of cash. When our cousin Mabel arrived in April for her [...]

Update: The Senate has postponed the hearing by a week to June 25, 2008.

Please sign the petition to oppose mandatory spay and neuter of all California pets
Senate hearing June 25, 2008
I apologize for this off-topic post. I don’t usually get my family, friends or acquaintances involved in politics or issues, however this is something that [...]