Yikes…wouldn’t want to own property in Detroit right now….then again, I could move in and buy a neighborhood for myself, no?
At least 16 Detroit houses up for sale on Sunday sold for $30,000 or less.
A boarded-up bungalow on the city’s west side brought $1,300. A four-bedroom house near the original Motown recording studio sold for [...]
The seventh personal finance site in my series “Favorite Blog Wednesday” is Boston Gal’s Open Wallet, which is written by….Boston Gal. I first started reading Boston Gal’s Open Wallet last year sometime when I first discovered the world of personal finance bloggers and have had her in my RSS reader since then. Since I [...]
In celebration of the first day of spring, Dunkin Donuts is giving away free Iced Coffee all day, all across the country. If you are lucky enough to live near one, be sure to have one for me. That is one luxury that we miss living out here in Southern California, in that we [...]
Very interesting little article over at CNNMoney about the best and worst frequent flier programs. We use AA for most of our travel, if only because I have elite status from all my international flying when I had a “real” job, and it makes check in and security a breeze. Also, since most of my [...]
Would you feel comfortable flying on a plane that could hold up to 850 people?
Yesterday morning, the brand new gigantic Airbus A380 had two landings here in the US..one landing at JFK in New York with 491 people on board and one at LAX with….no one on board. Well, I hope they had [...]
So, as mentioned in multiple posts in the past, we were contemplating getting rid of one of our cars because I work from home and barely ever need a car to get around. Well, today is Day #1 of me not having a car at all, and so far so good. (Yea, I know, [...]
This morning, Lazy Man and Money has put together the 92nd Carnival of Personal Finance, and it looks to be a doozy. Part one of my series about buying a new car was included and there were a ton of other interesting reads. A few particularly I enjoyed:
Consumerism Commentary wants you to know the real [...]
If you have been contemplating purchasing a hybrid car, now might be the time, at least according to Edmunds.com. While we are in the process of getting rid of one car altogether, with gas prices going up and tax incentives going down, if we were buying a car, we would definitely go hybrid. But for [...]
So we have made a decision. In reference to previous posts about getting rid of one of our cars, we have decided to sell my wife’s car and keep my Mini that I rarely drive anyway. She has taken the Mini to work this morning, and I will be taking her car over to [...]
Over on the Freakonomics Blog, there is a great post about different popular pharmacies that mark up generic drugs a STUPID amount. The worst offender? Walgreens, which charges $117 for 90 generic Prozac pills that Costco charges $12 for. Unbelievable! The entire breakdown from the article is as follows:
Walgreens: $117
Eckerd: $115
CVS: $115
Sam’s Club: [...]
Um, how scary is this? Walter Updegrave from Money Magazine is trying to help these people who have 10 years left until retirement…and no nest egg. First piece of advice? Start saving…like crazy. “If you save $500 a month for the next 10 years and earn an 8 percent annual return, [...]
The sixth personal finance site in my series “Favorite Blog Wednesday” is My Open Wallet, which is “about how much money I make, what I spend it on, how much I save, how I budget, my home-buying experiences, my financial goals and ambitions, my thoughts on class and what it means to be rich [...]
You, the people of the personal finance world, have spoken…and you want to let everyone know that you are here to save them. At least, that is what your choice in television programs says about you as a group. Seems most people that responded have something in them that makes them want to [...]
Tomorrow morning I will be putting up the final tally for the “Poll – Favorite Television Shows Of The Personal Finance World” post I started the other day. No, it does not have anything to do with personal finance, I was just curious!
Thanks to all of you that sent in your top 5 and [...]
Here in personal finance land, at least so far today, House is #1 and 24 and Heroes tie for #2. If you have not sent your favorites in, please see this post “Poll – Favorite Television Shows Of The Personal Finance World.” and send them in!
Dreamhost had a malfunction earlier this morning and my [...]
