I was saddened when our local discount grocery store went out of business. After nearly a year, though, it’s back in business with a new twist. It’s no longer just “scratch and dent” groceries for sale. About half of the shelf space is groceries as it was before — canned goods, household chemicals, pet food, … Read more
This is the first post in (what I hope to be) a series on clearing out your excess stuff and making a little extra cash on the side. My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. It had a whopping 3,583 bytes of RAM (0.003 MB) and cost $300 when I got it for my 10th … Read more
Won’t guarantee that yet, but there’s a chance! If procrastination kills, I should have been dead a long time ago. 😉 Fortunately my family, business associates, and friends have been very helpful. They’ve tracked down checks, organized donations, reproduced bank statements, and even offered to help with partnership returns (I’ll have two for 2006, three … Read more
It’s no big secret that the Washington $1 coin error market on eBay is booming. The blank edge coins have been going for at least $40-$50 each for quite a while, and some others like the blank planchet I found have gone for quite a bit more. One gentleman in Tallahassee had especially good fortune … Read more
My wife and I were neighborhood-shopping this weekend and ran across a yard sale Sunday evening. A bit of an unusual time to hold a yard sale but the weather was perfect. This yard sale had three Steelcase Protege® chairs for sale when we got there. My wife tried one of them out and it … Read more
Since our budgeting by using the force isn’t quite working anymore, and since we’ve noticed that our outflows are getting a little large relative to our inflows, we’ve set an allowance for ourselves. The allowance is for discretionary purposes, which include eating out (or getting drinks “on the go”), stuff bought online, vending machine purchases, … Read more
It looks like A Penny Saved is also following the Washington $1 coin errors avidly. Today he talks about the blank planchet errors — errors in quality control like all other errors, but apparently one that’s a little rarer. These coins are completely unstruck with the intended design. No obverse, no reverse, and no edge … Read more
The last post discussing Debt is Slavery dealt with the effect “stuff” has on our finance and on our lives. Part of the accumulation of our stuff is gifts we’ve received. And part of the stuff others have is likely gifts we’ve given them. Michael Mihalik, author of Debt is Slavery, discusses the “giant marketing … Read more