Pecuniarities

I know we have been terribly remiss in posting lately; again, apologies. The Halloween rush is over and we can breathe again (until the Christmas rush starts). To be honest, we were more than a little surprised at the amount of business we received for Halloween considering the current state of the economy. Our sales [...]

Blame it on the stars or mere coincidence, but interestingly, both of the blog carnivals I participated in this past week met with delays and issues. The resulting time constraints left the hosts no time to come up special themes, layouts or editor’s picks. And because, as always, I just managed to get my submissions [...]

It has been a busy week for us here at Our Fourpence Worth. We partipated in another PF Bloggers Network Group Writing Project, the topic of which was our Personal Experiences with Loans. We wrote about the first time we purchased a car on our own and got in a little trouble by being clueless [...]

Welcome to the 16th Edition of the Finance Fiesta! If this is your first time here, please be sure to have a look around and consider subscribing to our RSS feed.
This week’s edition was particularly challenging for me to put together, because to tell the truth, of all the submissions received only 60% made [...]

This month’s Group Writing Project is about Personal Experiences with Loans, so we’ll tell the story of our first, somewhat disastrous experience with loans, of how we got in trouble and rectified the situation.
In May 2003, when we moved from Hawaii, we lived in a tiny garage apartment in Hayward, CA (more about this in [...]

Our Fourpence Worth will be hosting the 16th Edition of the Finance Fiesta blog carnival this Thursday September 18, 2008. Frugal and personal finance bloggers, be sure to submit your posts. Categories for this carnival include: Budgeting Techniques, Career Development, Responsible Use of Credit, Economics, Current Events, Money Management, Debt Repayment, Saving Methods and More.
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