It is nearly inevitable that sooner or later you will need to attend some business meetings if you work in the corporate world. While your business may be willing to pay for your airfare and your hotel room, if they send you, you will still have a number of expenses to pay for out of […]
We have two cars. One of them is relatively new; we bought it used two years ago. The other, though, is a 2001 that we bought in 2003. We’ve had it for eight years. It’s paid off, and it still runs reasonably well. I recently had to get some repairs done on the car, replacing […]
Applying for a second mortgage may become necessary if you want to renovate, expand, or finance a purchase. That doesn’t mean that you have to blindly shell out whatever fees and charges a particular lender requests, though. Just as you have choices and options with a primary mortgage, you have the same flexibility here. Check […]
There is nothing pleasant about filing taxes. Whether you are a believer in the current system of government assistance or not, sending in your tax forms each year is a requirement for those who have earned enough. That means that you want to save as much money in the preparation process as possible, without bending […]
There are plenty of ways to play the system in Europe and get cheaper train tickets. Booking early, traveling at odd times, and making use of bargain passes are all traditional ways of cutting a train ticket’s price dramatically. In the US, though, things are much less accommodating. In fact, since the government started subsidizing […]
Fortunately, we are a long way from the day that purchasing an inexpensive computer monitor meant that you were getting a dud. If you have been around to watch the progress of computers from the days before monitors, to orange and green screens that were as large as a small fridge and on up to […]
