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 August 2008.)
Descending chronologically by inclusion date

August 17, 2008
The Carnival of Personal Finance #166: Around the World of Commodities!
Article: The Financial Woes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
August 14, 2008
Finance Fiesta: The [...]

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 19, 2008

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This month’s topic for the PF Bloggers Network Group Writing Project is “Rich People Gone Broke.” Our chosen subject for this project is Wolfgang Mozart, one of the greatest composers that ever lived. While a genius in everything musical, he was less lucky when it came to money management.
Prodigy and Breadwinner
Mozart first went to work [...]

Money on the Mind: Social and Psychological Ramifications
I came across an interesting article on MSN Money last night titled Does money make you mean? which described a study conducted on a group of subjects who had been preconditioned to have money on their minds when various experiments were conducted. The study found that those with [...]

These are a part of our Freebies series of Printable Gifts and Accessories. These Miniature Gingham Gift Boxes match the Miniature Gingham Carrier Bags we posted a few days ago.
These images are provided for personal non-commercial use and may not be published elsewhere. If you want to share this with your friends, please link to [...]

Madoline and I lived in Los Angeles (in the San Fernando Valley) for a year and a half, during which time we went through a shopaholic phase followed by a phase of extreme frugality (described in Our Family Financial History). When we decided to be frugal, I learned a lot about free and low cost [...]

When our cousin went home last month after her 3-month visit, I thought I’d be able to spend more time working on this blog and post more often, but I guess plans are made to be broken. If it’s not one thing, it’s another – all three of our dogs catching cold, changing webhosting plans [...]