Pecuniarities

A list of government websites and resources for identifying and reporting fraud, identity theft, SPAM, email scams and more.

Learn how to protect yourself from scams, frauds and identity theft, repair your credit history, save money in the current economy and more.

I received an informative email forward the other day from my college Spanish professor (the same one who sent me the Calvin & Hobbes Lemonade Stand comic which has been a bit of a hit) and thought it could be useful to our readers.
I know there are a lot of good ID theft prevention tips [...]

Pecuniarities is 1 year old this month! The actual date of the anniversary is a little ambiguous, as this was my first blog ever and it took me a little time to get it up and running. After writing several posts, I dated the first post February 13, 2008, but it wasn’t till after the [...]

Thanks to these recent blog carnivals for including my post on Frugal and Meaningful Valentine’s Day Gift & Date Ideas:

Carnival of Personal Finance 190: Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?
Festival of Frugality: Singles Awareness Edition

Many of us who have been practicing the frugal lifestyle already know about the ability to borrow books, audiobooks, movies, music, software (maybe not all libraries), etc. for free from our local libraries. But it occurs to me that fewer people might be aware of the many more resources available online through our libraries’ websites.
Most [...]

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 will [...]