The homebuying bug has bit me!The alarm went off. It's time to gear up to buy a house! We don't think we can afford to buy a house in our current neighborhood, as we'd hoped, unless we find a short sale -- and they do fall out of the sky from time to time. It's certainly worth keeping an eye out. Meanwhile, we've identified another area in ( Read more... )

jatrina is super awesome, and she sent me this link to a free download of David Bach's Debt Free For Life, valid today on January 5 ( Read more... )

Cut for chattiness today with an update on the aforementioned issues with Ian's student loans, what I'm reading for pleasure and for school, detailed notes about what I'm learning in school, and at the bottom of Pandora's box - hope for Ian's career.

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Keep Your Literature Off My Body!
Did I tell you I gave up on the Twilight series? As tashewolf predicted, I got to Book 4 of 4 and turned a corner to find the author sucking on a crack pipe and I could take no more! There was a rather significant plot development early in Book 4 which I found to be repugnant, and that was it for me! I read a paragraph. I ( Read more... )

Any chance that anyone out there has ever read Carolyn Warren's, Mortgage Ripoffs and Money Savers: An Industry Insider Explains How to Save Thousands on Your Mortgage or Re-Finance? It looks really good on Amazon.com, but alas, is not available from my public library. Anyone familiar with it?

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Suze Orman is offering a free download of her latest book on Oprah's website until January 15:

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081119_tows_bookdownload

( Cut for length at the intersection of personal values and finance. )

Ian and I joined his parents and maternal grandparents in Gulf Shores, Alabama for Thanksgiving. His parents have a condo right on the beach -- it was incredible. I was prepared for sort of a chilly and grey beach weekend, snuggled in a comfy chair with a book. Needless to say there was some scrambling to buy shorts and a bathing suit for Ian since ( Read more... )

It is positively gorgeous here in Plano, Texas! It's clear and sunny with just enough breeze to be both pleasant feeling, and make my wafting diaphanous sheer white curtains look pretty while I have the windows open. It's just so chilly that I think this is the week I may "put up" my shorts and summer gear for the winter. Shorts are just right if I ( Read more... )

( Zomeg! This is boring crap about saving money and my $2.87 Coke rage, etc. )