Pecuniarities

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 in [...]

We received the following letter from our County Assessor-Recorder the day before yesterday. At first I was afraid to open it, thinking it was bad news. Well, it did turn out to be bad news … but with every cloud comes a silver lining…
Dear Taxpayer:
As a result of the decline in value of the local [...]

Welcome to the 24th Edition of the Carnival of Pecuniary Delights! If you are unfamiliar with this fairly new carnival, this carnival is for bloggers, blog readers and anyone interested in financial and frugal reading. Visit the Carnival of Pecuniary Delights page to learn more.
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It has been a busy week for us here at Our Fourpence Worth. We partipated in another PF Bloggers Network Group Writing Project, the topic of which was our Personal Experiences with Loans. We wrote about the first time we purchased a car on our own and got in a little trouble by being clueless [...]

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As we learn in grade school science, everything on this Earth is composed of many smaller things, which in turn are composed of even smaller things, etc., etc., etc. The same principle applies to finance and fortune. I have often read or heard [...]

Welcome to the 16th Edition of the Finance Fiesta! If this is your first time here, please be sure to have a look around and consider subscribing to our RSS feed.
This week’s edition was particularly challenging for me to put together, because to tell the truth, of all the submissions received only 60% made [...]