Ooo here’s a very nice online coupon site for you frugal folks: Savings.com. They even have promo codes for Home Depot! Home Depot coupons, codes, and discounts are very, very hard to come by. I have already spent $3,000 at the blasted place. It WOULD HAVE been nice to have saved a couple of bucks [...]
Continue reading...1. June 2010
Well, it seemed as good as any. I wanted to renovate this kitchen ever since we moved here, 13 years ago. The kitchen, remodeled by the previous owners in dark brown, orange, and yellow, was dark, dank, and horrid. I painted the cabinets and walls white to get some light in the room, but the [...]
Continue reading...17. March 2010
Now that the snow is just about gone, I feel invigorated enough to start some planning for the new kitchen, and do some supply comparison shopping. I had this amazingly bright idea when I visited my local Big Box Home Improvement Store— take a camera to snap photos of the products! And to think I [...]
Continue reading...19. January 2009
I have long considered (and tossed around at great length) whether to finance our home improvements and renovations with a bank loan or with a credit card loan. My own personal credit is very good, which has given me great options for credit card loans; but bank interest rates and home equity loan rates really [...]
Continue reading...1. October 2008
I was on the phone with a friend yesterday, a woman old enough to be my mom (she’s a Baby Boomer and has recently retired with her husband). They had very good, high-paying jobs and a great pension and retirement investment plan 15 years ago. But with all the recent financial market crises and increasing [...]
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3. July 2010
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