As a followup to my article "Breathing new life into an old lawnmower", I'd like to talk about how to decide when to buy a new lawnmower, and then what options you may have. When your old lawnmower needs to go As I mentioned in the closing remarks … [Read more...] about Saving money when buying a lawnmower
When we bought our first home 2.5 years ago, the previous owners left their old lawnmower for us. We have 0.21 acres, and the house and pool cover about half of it. However, we do have enough lawn to require a power lawnmower...or we would need about … [Read more...] about Breathing new life into an old lawnmower
This tax season, I was quite surprised when I found out we weren't getting the $5,000 tax refund we got last year. Actually, we owe about $1500 (federal). What happened? 1. We (combined) earned about $X0,000 more from 2005 to 2006 because of … [Read more...] about No Employer 401k Match – Should you still contribute?
This past week I launched my wife Stacie's new nutrition-related website: Building Nutrition. Feel free to send Stacie or myself article ideas or even write your own! Stacie has a wealth of information to pull from for her own articles, and she is … [Read more...] about Clever Dude’s Week in Review April 2-8, 2007
Blain at Stock Trading 101 has organized a stock trading competition amongst a few of us finance blogs from Monday through Friday next week (April 9-13th). I need you, my readers, to participate! You don't need to be experienced in investing AT ALL. … [Read more...] about Stock Pick Tournament: Just comment here by Sunday night!
A few months ago, I found out that my wife's long-time favorite Christian band, Jars of Clay, was coming to DC. Outside of Blockbuster Online, and maybe one trip to the movie theater per year, we generally don't do anything entertaining that costs … [Read more...] about We finally dipped into our entertainment budget
Just this morning (how very long ago), I wrote about the mental affects of a gas mileage computer in your car. One of my frequent commentors, Samerwriter, commented that he uses a device that plugs into his car's ODBII port and gives him real-time … [Read more...] about An expensive gadget to monitor gas mileage
Just a quick FYI. If you're looking for my series on marathon training for new runners, you'll find it over at Stacie's site, Building Nutrition. The series fits better with Building Nutrition than with my own site, so I transferred all posts and the … [Read more...] about Marathon Training Series transferred to BuildingNutrition.com
