Casey, a subscriber and commenter here at Clever Dude, had some great comments on our article Examine Your Motives: Buying A Home, so I asked her to make her comment into a full article. Casey and her husband are in their early 30s and currently live … [Read more...] about Renting vs Buying a Home: A Detailed Calculation
A cutely named and designed site called Bean Sprout hosted the 90th Festival of Frugality this week. I didn't have any articles specifically frugal-oriented last week, so I'll just run down my favorites from other writers: Being Frugal gives some … [Read more...] about Best Frugality Articles from Festival of Frugality #90
Wow, this was a busy week. So busy that I didn't even get to read the 116th Carnival of Personal Finance until today. Advanced Personal Finance did a great job of hosting, even though I was stuck in the next to last slot under the section … [Read more...] about Best Finance Articles from Carnival of Personal Finance #116
Uh-oh, we've hit the big one in our Examine Your Motives series: Having Kids! This is the discussion between Stacie and I that got the series started. Disclaimer: This is not intended at all to be an essay on why you should or shouldn't have kids. … [Read more...] about Examine Your Motives Series: Having Kids
Mighty Bargain Hunter posted a short carnival this week, but I enjoyed all of the submissions. I'm just glad I didn't need to slog through 70+ articles to do this recap! My own article "No So Frugal Lunch" was featured in the 102nd Carnival of … [Read more...] about Best Debt Posts from Carnival of Debt Reduction #102
We've both been complaining for months about needing new work clothes. My pants are about 5 years old, and many of my dress shirts are just too baggy. Stacie needs more skirts and light sweaters. This weekend we decided to go shopping at the Leesburg … [Read more...] about Cheap clothes aren’t always a value
