With rare honesty and touching insight, a veterinarian in northern California discusses what it’s like for her family to lose their dream home to foreclosure—and she blames herself at least as much as the economy for their predicament.
Now through July 25, at EyeBuyDirect.com, you’ll get a free pair of prescription eyeglasses with each paid pair. The cheaper of the two is the freebie, and there’s a minimum order requirement of $14.95.
Right now, there are six times as many people who have been unemployed for at least 99 weeks as there were three years ago.
“The trick is to just make sure you’re not spending a lot of money on stuff you don’t use or appreciate very often.”
The median home size is now a bit over 2,000 square feet, which is down from 2,309 square feet in 2007. But even 2,000 square feet is more space than most families need, and homeowners should understand that size matters: You obviously pay more upfront for a bigger home, and huge, sprawling houses are also [...]
More foreclosures—especially among the rich—mean more estate sales, and more potential for smart shoppers to snag antiques, furniture, and fixtures at well below market value.
“There’s a saying, ‘The pioneers are the ones with the arrows in their butts,’ because they forge the way, but there comes a cost for that.”
Now through July 31, when you give $3 at Macy’s for Reading Is Fundamental, you’ll receive a coupon that grants $10 off a future Macy’s purchase of $50 or more (some exclusions apply). The campaign, which helps put free books into kids’ hands, is called Book a Brighter Future.
In the recession era, the bar has been raised on why and when consumers decide to buy luxury goods. Merely liking something is no longer enough. But if you can somehow justify that a product—one that’s expensive, that you clearly don’t need—saves you time or money, or somehow betters your health or quality of life, [...]
Also: the sickest things people have done to save money, including wolfing down a Quarter Pounder that sat forgotten on a shelf—for five days.
If you’ve got a mortgage of $1 million or above, you’re significantly more likely to be delinquent with payments compared to homeowners under the $1 million mortgage mark. Why are the wealthy falling behind or walking away from their mortgages? “The rich are different: they are more ruthless,” says one economist who helped compiled the [...]
