I’ll go ahead and admit it: Generally immune to brands, I drive a BMW. A 10-year-old model, and it’s the entry-level 325, but still, it’s a luxury brand with a luxury sticker price. I almost can’t help it (or can I?) – the Silicon Valley is filled with luxury cars, mostly German brands such as […]
Once again, Henry David Thoreau’s desire to live simply has caught American popular consciousness. What’s surprising about the modern-day Walden is that it is not in some remote area, far from the world. It’s in cities and suburbs, and possibly in your own back yard. This new movement is called Urban Homesteading, and it offers […]
Last weekend, we had 3-6 inches of snow predicted for Sunday night. Now the area where I live only gets one or two snowfalls a year and so we get a little crazy when it’s time to prepare. As a personal finance blogger, I wish I could tell you I was immune, but sure enough […]
One of the things that dawned on me as the plumber came to my home last week and began installing a sump pump so that my basement wouldn’t (hopefully) flood again, is that many of us pay quite a bit for convenience. We know that convenience costs money, whether we pay a $3 “convenience fee” […]
According to the Pew Research Center, the percentage of American homes with landlines has dropped to 74 percent — in comparison to its 2001 peak of 97 percent. The number is dropping with increasing speed, and there are plenty of reasons why. For most households, a cell phone is more useful — and why should […]
With the holidays upon us, you’re likely planning trips to a list of various stores, not just to purchase gifts, but also to return well-intentioned gifts. There are quite a few reasons you might want to return a particular item to the store, but there are also plenty of reasons that you may never get […]
