Pecuniarities

Well, it has been quite a week here at Pecuniarities. Our first giveaway has officially ended and we are in the process of selecting a winner. The identity of the winner will be announced on the contest page after we have received confirmation of eligibility and address to send the subscription to. We also hosted [...]

Sorry I’ve been MIA these last few days; I took a short holiday after putting together the Carnival of Personal Finance: Jane Austen Edition, but have a bunch of new posts in the works.
Calvin and Hobbes Lemonade Stand Economics
My Spanish professor from college forwarded me this Calvin and Hobbes comic the other day, which I [...]

Welcome to the 188th Carnival of Personal Finance! Our theme for this week’s edition is Jane Austen, as I am a admirer of both her novels and the films based on her novels, which are graced throughout with witty commentary on society — and in particular, money and marriage.
If this is your first time here, [...]

A few weeks ago, I haplessly picked up a nasty trojan horse virus on my laptop running Windows XP. Because I had AVG Anti-Virus (Free Edition) installed, one of the most highly lauded free anti-virus programs out there, I thought that I was safe from the evils of the cyberworld, but I was wrong.
As soon [...]

As a follow-up to my post on how you can save money and get more exercise with a mini home gym, I thought I would offer some tips and tricks that Madoline and I have discovered over the years to burn a few extra calories and prevent weight gain during the course of our daily [...]

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), [...]

Update 7:20PM January 30, 2009

The winner is Lisa Spinelli! Thank you all again for participating in my first giveaway!
Update 9:00PM, January 24, 2009