We have gotten a few calls since we put my car up for sale. The most interesting was one that kept text messaging us asking questions that were already answered in the ad. The final question was if we would accept $8,000 more than the asking price and send them a check for the difference. [...]

For a change of pace I’m doing a mid-week roundup of my favorite personal finance articles of the week. I’m deep in spreadsheet mode lately as I have come up with yet another plan to tweak some of our strategies to change things around at home.
I’m reprioritizing some of our 2008 goals and considering [...]

We got as far as we could yesterday on our taxes. Now I’m going to have to work on a strategy to recharacterize to finish it up. Since the taxes are at a standstill for a few days, I’ve been hard at work crunching the numbers on a possible refinance. Stay tuned as I’ll document [...]

This weekend I’m busy crunching numbers. I’m trying to finish up our taxes and despite my organization, we ran into some problems. Our income disqualified us from some expected credits. Luckily I have some room to work with it, but I’m trying to calculate the optimal long-term solution with a few different choices. Stay tuned [...]

This weekend we’ll be busy dying Easter Eggs. It’s a fun tradition, but you end up with a ton of eggs! If you need to bring a dish to Easter dinner, keep it frugal and turn your eggs into Special Deviled Eggs, one of my favorites!
Speaking of Frugal… I’ll be hosting the Festival of Frugality [...]