Archive for July, 2010
Dateline NBC show on Poverty During the Great Recession
I watched an interesting Dateline show last night that highlighted the suffering of various people in Ohio as they live their way through the Great Recession. Here is a link to the coverage on their website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38382773/ns/dateline_nbc-america_now It’s definitely worth checking out. I found myself feeling very lucky and a little bit guilty to have [...]
Real Estate Continues to Fall – A Report From the Trenches
Well, not trenches actually. It’s more like a report from my neighborhood. As long time readers know, I keep a close eye on the real estate that’s for sale around my house. It’s really been a fascinating experience to watch houses fall in to foreclosure and then sit for many months unoccupied as the lawns [...]
Louis CK on Money
Don’t watch this if swear words offend you. Otherwise, I think you’ll laugh. A lot.
Cost is All Relative
As I posted earlier, I was recently shopping for a clothes dryer after ours decided to quit working. I have to say, it was not an enjoyable experience. In the end, I managed to avoid the purchase and pick up a used one for nearly nothing from a neighbor, but the process that I went [...]
Dryer Drama
It never fails. We renew our commitment to build our savings to a higher level and things start breaking. In this case, our dryer decided to stop working. Knowing that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work on a dryer, I did some testing and discovered that the main control board in [...]