This Melinda Fulmer article on MSN caught my eye mainly from the title: When bargain hunting is an addiction (After all, this site is Mighty Bargain Hunter.) The article discusses a few people who have a true addiction to bargain hunting, as in a Bargain Hunters Anonymous kind of addiction. Even though it sounds funny, … Read more
This may not be a revelation to many of you but natural spring water can taste really, really good. We and my wife’s parents have recently begun stopping off at a natural spring just off of Route 55 near the Virginia-West Virginia border. We had made a number of trips before that and we always … Read more
I’d heard anecdotes of people being asked to leave all-you-can-eat buffets because, well, they eat too much, but apparently it’s starting to happen (or has been happening, and I just haven’t heard about it). I found this article via Clever Dude, and apparently there was some flak between some customers and a restaurant owner when … Read more
Carpooling to work has always been a good idea but with gas prices on the rise it’s more appealing than ever. Other terms for carpooling are ride-sharing, lift-sharing, or slugging (kinda, at least around DC). Advantages? Here are a few: Lower gasoline cost. The single most important consideration. Lower vehicle maintenance cost. Driving less means … Read more
No, seriously — it works really well at getting rid of smoke odor. I bought a collection of California Raisin figurines at a yard sale for a decent price. They were a little dirty but they’re durable, so they withstood scrubbing to get the grime off. Then I smelled the cigarettes. The woman who sold … Read more
We hit a few yard sales over the Labor Day weekend. Here’s what we found: A bread slicer for $2 (my wife swears that she can’t cut a good piece of bread from a loaf). A quart of oil for 50 cents (one guy beat me to six others by about a minute). A bunch … Read more
We hit a few yard sales and a flea market this morning. There were a bunch of good deals, but space is getting tight in our house, so we have to really have a purpose for the things we buy or be able to “turn the merchandise” quickly. So here’s what we found and the … Read more
Free Money Finance commented on a Kiplinger’s article which gives guidelines on how much college debt is too much. It boils down to investment and payoff: the higher the expected payoff (increased salary) the higher the investment should be (college expenses and/or college debt). This is reasonable advice, assuming a traditional career path and a … Read more