May 2010

Are Your Name, Address, Phone Number, Income, and Credit Rating Being Broadcast to the Universe?

May 29, 2010

Holy God! Take a look at what Fabulously Broke found! Do not pass go before you click here and enter your own name. When I went there, I discovered they’ve published my street address—with a map to my house!—telephone number; approximate age; credit rating; wealth level; value of my home; gender; marital status; length of [...]

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DIY Veterinary: The dog-proof hot-spot bandage

May 29, 2010

Come the warm weather, dog-shedding season is upon us. Whenever Cassie blows her coat, she starts licking her favorite hot-spot site on her foreleg. After various veterinary consultations for various licking dogs, I’ve learned that the best way to deal with this problem is to cover the irritated spot until whatever it is that compels [...]

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Glasses: You get what you pay for!

May 28, 2010

OMG!!! Just got back from picking up the $720 glasses of late, great fame. I can’t believe it… They don’t just work, they work with a flourish. I can see better through these than I’ve been able to see in years. In the car, I can see the road and all the signs around with [...]

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How to Buy Your Next Car in Cash

May 28, 2010

The other day while a friend and I were chatting, the subject of buying cars came up. When I mentioned that I pay for my cars in cash, he expressed some awe: the very idea of not having to make car payments was so far outside his ken it might as well have come from [...]

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How a Frugal Find Helped End a Friendship

May 27, 2010

LOL! That decorative arrangement with the black and green square plates shown in my last post reminds me of the episode that probably marked the beginning of the end of a very close friendship. The woman who dubbed me “Funny about Money” (not knowing I could overhear her speaking into La Maya’s telephone answering machine) [...]

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Frugal Shopping at the Estate Sales

May 27, 2010

Yesterday morning La Maya and I made a run on an estate sale in Troon, an upscale high-desert area of north north Scottsdale, where for $500,000 you get a stryofoam-and-stucco tract house nestled among the boulders in Commuter Hell. Houses in foreclosure out there go for upwards of four hundred grand. It actually was a [...]

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