Yesterday I was looking at real estate porn — one of those catalogs that comes in the New York Times and has lots of pictures of homes I can’t afford. I decided to go online and find out exactly how much I could afford to pay for a home. So I found one of those mortgage-affordability [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 30, 2008
Budget Recipe #1 — veggie curry!
Check out the budget recipe tab, where we’ve posted our first recipe. A lot of people are afraid to cook curry, but if you have one basic spice combination that works well, you can use it with pretty much any vegetables or meat. Thus, we offer you an easy recipe for curry which can be changed [...]
March 29, 2008
Wedding Money-Saving Tip!
One of the best things we did after the wedding was skip the whole $600-wedding-album thing. First of all, we didn’t love those professional albums. Second, the last thing we wanted to do post-wedding was spend hundreds of dollars on anything. Luckily, we discovered Blurb. Download Blurb’s software, and it’s incredibly easy to design and [...]
March 29, 2008
Siegel: “We’re very close to the bottom”
If you ask a dozen people where they think the market is headed, you’ll get a dozen answers, and the most honest ones will probably be “I don’t know.” Jeremy Siegel, the Wharton professor and author of Stocks for the Long Run, has an opinion of his own, and he’s as likely to be right [...]
March 28, 2008
In which my budget is completely busted
I mentioned in a previous post that I felt rich when I was making $31,000 a year. In New York City, no less. At that salary level, I took home about $1,000 every two weeks. It came as a shock a few years later, when I was making enough to take home a little over [...]
