Pecuniarities

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Mine was so nice that I’m not ready for it to end – and in fact it hasn’t really because I’m still eating turkey twice a day – a 22 lb. turkey between 2 people and 2 medium sized dogs means we will probably all be eating turkey [...]

This month’s Group Writing Project is about Personal Experiences with Loans, so we’ll tell the story of our first, somewhat disastrous experience with loans, of how we got in trouble and rectified the situation. In May 2003, when we moved from Hawaii, we lived in a tiny garage apartment in Hayward, CA (more about this [...]

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 [...]

We would like to thank Karen Datko of MSN Money Central’s Smart Spending for the mention on our recent post: Economical Pet and Child Safe Ways to Repel and Kill Ants, Spiders and Other Insects. If this is your first time here, please have a look around and consider subscribing to our RSS feed, which [...]

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 May 2008.) Descending chronologically by inclusion date May 27, 2008 And the Beat Goes On: 127th Festival of Frugality Article: Some of the Many Uses for Vinegar around the [...]

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 April 2008.) Descending chronologically by inclusion date April 16, 2008 The 8th Edition of the Money Hacks Carnival Article: The Frugal Literates Guide to Affordable Reading (Double thanks for [...]

We would like to thank the following blog carnivals for including our posts in the following blog carnivals for the moth of March 2008. (Descending chronologically by inclusion date) March 26, 2008 Money Hacks Carnival #5 – Haute Couture Edition Article: Language Lesson ~ Frugality is a Virtue March 24, 2008 Carnival of Personal Finance [...]