As the Texas summer is fast approaching, one of the things I'm worried about in my home is my electricity bill. First of all, I have a 23 year old AC unit that isn't nearly as efficient as newer models. Secondly, I have 23 year old aluminum frame windows that do very little to keep out the crazy Texas heat.
The following is a guest post by Thousandaire reader Aimee McNitt, who blogs over at PersonalBudgeting.com Make no mistake, I love my stuff. My husband Scott and I have worked hard – Scott has, anyway – and stretched our budget (that's where I come in) to be able to buy the things we want. His laptop, the video game system
My fiancee and I close on our new house in a little over a week and we had one big problem to solve this weekend: the house doesn't have a refrigerator. The current owners are taking the fridge to their new house so we needed to get some appliances and we needed to get them cheap. We also wanted to
I will be closing on my first house on December 4th, and I will be bringing a 20% down payment to my closing date. As someone who just paid off my student loans a few months ago, I definitely didn't just have $40k lying around. What I did have was a fairly substantial amount of money in my 401k. The
Based on the title of this post alone I guarantee there will be some hardcore zero debt personal finance fanatics who think I'm the dumbest person on the planet, but I'm here to take a radical position: paying interest isn't always so bad. Does paying interest suck? Absolutely. But sometimes you need to borrow and the only way to do
I'm closing on my house in the beginning of December and there's a lot of work to be done and a lot of money to be spent. I already wrote about how I found a great deal on floors, but even a great deal is going to cost me thousands of dollars. That's not to mention the fact that I
