Pecuniarities

When our A/C went out two Sundays ago, my first reaction was panic. We live in the desert where we have been experiencing triple digit temperatures and we have esteemed air conditioning as one of the dire necessities of life. So when our central air went out last weekend, my first thought was that we [...]

Tiny leaks and evaporation put a constant drain on your resources. As discussed in our previous post, From Pennies One Million Dollars Grow, a few cents saved here and there can add up to be a significant amount. Here we offer 101 suggestions for plugging expenditures in various aspects of your life – around the [...]

First of all, I think it very likely that our seemingly endless summer of “No A/C” will soon be coming to an end. But more on that later. Let’s start at the beginning.
No-Heat Winters
When we moved into our house in the Mojave Desert in December 2006, we arrived late at night and therefore had to [...]

Posts from personal finance and frugality blogs that caught my eye this week, plus recent finance blog carnivals that included posts from Pecuniarities.

Christmas is in the air and I am bundled up to resemble a fat penguin, wearing 4-5 layers, and huddled in front of a space heater as I type. The weather also forecasts snow for us tomorrow, which is somewhat rare as we live in the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Having grown up in [...]

Apologies for our tardiness in posting for Blog Action Day which was Oct. 15, 2008. On Oct. 14th, our site was blocked due to server overload and we had to move to a new hosting company. I emailed Leo Babauta at Blog Action Day to ask if I could still participate a few days late [...]

Well, the hot weather I’ve been complaining about suddenly took leave a couple of days ago. We skipped the t-shirt stage entirely and have gone straight from tank top to sweatshirt in just 2 days. This is certainly a welcome relief, but I hope it doesn’t signify an especially cold winter.  And we’d better start [...]