Pecuniarities

It feels good to get back in the groove of posting regularly again. My cousin lent me an older laptop of his last week so that I can work (on the blog and our other business sites) while Madoline works on her paintings on our PC, and it has made all the difference.
As for life [...]

An amusing excerpt from the popular novel Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie in which Mr. Darling calculates, upon the arrival of his children, and speculates whether he can afford to keep them.

Tiny leaks and evaporation put a constant drain on your resources. As discussed in our previous post, From Pennies One Million Dollars Grow, a few cents saved here and there can add up to be a significant amount. Here we offer 101 suggestions for plugging expenditures in various aspects of your life - around the [...]

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 [...]

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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I can’t believe it’s September already. I woke up today with that feeling of fall in the air, which is really nice. While I learned long ago to never wish life away by wanting a future day hurry up and come, I can’t say that I don’t look forward to the cooler weather and lower [...]