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Submitted by Steve on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 23:01

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College Textbooks Make our Blood Boil!!!!

Submitted by Steve on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 15:39

Three weeks ago Steve had a conversation with a woman who works at our local high school bookstore. He asked her how often high school math and English books come out with new editions. She pointed to a shelf full of math books and said that they were close to seven years old. Hmm, seven years huh?

What new information do students get in College Algebra, Trig or Statistics that is so earth shattering that the publishers constantly need to update their editions every year or two?

Welcome to our New Web Site!!!

Submitted by Steve on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 12:49

Web site

The new

New Web Site Status

Submitted by Steve on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 15:33

Web site

We have been working like crazy for the past four months to get this web site up. We migrated it to this location earlier this week to get the bugs out. Our official launch date is Thursday, January 28. If you are a HomeEconomiser Newsletter subscriber, you will be receiving your email instructions next week.

While you're here, please look around. We are in the midst of putting up more content and de-bugging the site. So if you find a dead link or something else doesn't work, please contact us.

Thanksgiving on a budget

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 17:16

Question: Help! We’ve been married 4 years and this will be the first time I’m hosting Thanksgiving. We’ve got relatives coming from out of town. I’m panicked over the cost!

Wal-mart and Black Friday

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 17:09

This is big money saving news.

We were just waking up this morning and heard a commercial stating that Walmart is expanding their nationwide price match policy to include any and all Black Friday deals. This could mean avoiding huge lines of bargain shoppers and being able to do a lot of shopping at one store.

We've used price match on groceries lots of times, but seldom on other merchandise.

Paying off a house quickly

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 16:33

Question: Explain how you paid off your house so quickly.

Answer: There are three things we did to pay off our first home in nine years:

Animal Adoptions

Submitted by Steve on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 15:52

Pets

We just adopted a dog through Central Arizona Animal Rescue http://www.caaronline.org/ — they are really great people.

Medical crisis and car payments

Submitted by Steve on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 09:13

Question: I have a chronic illness and don’t know when I’ll be able to return to work. My husband works a weekend job in addition to his weekly job. We have two car payments. One is $500 a month with 18 months left to pay off the car. Would we be better off trading it in to get our payments down to $300? We tried to refinance it, but the company said no. I’m not sure we can afford this payment on one income. We need two cars because our son just started college.