Two in the Bush

Next month is my condo closing (knock wood), which means that about a week from now I’ll be making my last mortgage payment on the place. Oh, and my last assessment, last tax escrow payment, last PMI payment… all told, that’s $2700/month that I’m paying now but won’t be paying come October. And as annoying as [...]

A taste of my own medicine

I used to work in tech support for a large company with retail outlets. The company’s retail employees would call in if they were having problems with their POS (that’s point-of-sale, you potty-mouth!) systems. Most of the time, the first thing we’d have the caller do would be to reboot the computer and/or make sure [...]

“But it was 99% off!” and other personal finance fallacies

My mom was (and still is) a bargain hunter. She made a hobby out of shopping the bargain racks and clearance bins, trying to get the biggest discount she could. Even better if she could then talk the salesperson into taking off an additional 5% for a loose thread or missing product manual.
Like I said, [...]