Pecuniarities

Blame it on the stars or mere coincidence, but interestingly, both of the blog carnivals I participated in this past week met with delays and issues. The resulting time constraints left the hosts no time to come up special themes, layouts or editor’s picks. And because, as always, I just managed to get my submissions [...]

Our Fourpence Worth has the privilege of hosting two prominent finance and frugal living blog carnivals next week. If you’re a blogger, be sure and submit your personal finance and frugal living articles. If you’re a blog reader, be sure and stop by for recommendations for great reads. Festival of Frugality 139th Edition Tuesday, August [...]

This first writing project deals with the circumstances, people and events in our past which have led to our present financial habits. I proposed this topic as the first of our group writing project as I had been planning to write something about our background and why we live the way we do. We are [...]

It is generally accepted that buying in bulk is the best way to save money and the backbone of a frugal lifestyle. I do agree with this, but not for all things. With products and foods we regularly or quickly use and consume, I almost always buy in bulk without question. But there are cases [...]

If you make money working on your own, such as blogging with Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, etc., you will very likely have received a Form 1099-MISC for miscellaneous income by the beginning of February. And you will need to file and pay self-employment tax. The first year I had to file self-employment tax, I was [...]

About This Blog  >>  More About Us  >>  Ludwig and Wolfgang  >>  Our Shop We (2 sisters, ages 27 and 28 as of this writing) were born in San Francisco, CA, grew up in Japan, Taiwan and Hawaii where we lived for 16 years until after graduating from college. One of us has a B.A. in Vocal Music Performance and the [...]