Browsing the archives for the Money category
It’s not news that the U. S. housing market is in serious trouble. For the most part, the trouble is with people who agreed to a mortgage that would adjust to a higher rate under the premise that everything would go their way and they would be earning more income to afford the higher rate, [...]
I’m always getting little coupons in the mail from various carpet cleaning companies offering specials, like “three rooms for $20″ or “any size room $7.95 (3 room minimum)” and sometimes they throw in cleaning a sofa or special additional discounts for upholstery. So although I have a carpet cleaning machine and use it about once [...]
Since they passed the new law about consumers having the right to check on their credit reports for free one time each year, I hope everyone is doing that. With all the buzz about identity theft, you can never be too careful with your own good credit. You might even be pleasantly surprised when you [...]
I’m trying to figure out how to teach a Kindergartener about money. She has learned how to count to 100 and also backwards from 100 and has started learning some basic addition and subtraction. I don’t think she has the concept of something worth more, especially if the something, like a dime, is supposed to [...]
I have a yard car, a ’96 Thunderbird. It sits around back and gets older and never goes anywhere. The list of needed repairs is long and it will be expensive to fix it up. The car is not worth half what it would cost to get it running again, but I just can’t bring [...]