It would make more sense to offer these homes as homesteads.  If a person can improve the property and pay the property taxes, then they should get the homes for free.  Sounds like a win-win to me.  A lot of these homes don't have an owner anyway; even the banks don't know where the deed is.  This could help out a lot ...more

I love my $1000 beater.  It's a great car (89 Acura Legend) and has proven to be reliable.  I wouldn't trade it for a nicer car with payments; no way.  The money I save every month is worth the extra maintenance, and it's cheaper to insure.

What are we??  A bunch of idiots???  What a ridiculous story.  29.99 is clearly 30.  Duh!!

We reduced our Dish package down the the Welcome Package, which is only about $20 a month, and joined Neflix with an instant connection to our Bluray player.  Best decision ever.  Netflix is great.  I can watch seasons worth of great shows and plenty of movies and great documentaries whenever I want.  We had to keep Di...more

We have a DVR and usually fast forward through commercials.  However, we do watch some of them for the humor factor.  Like some of the insurance commercials.  We ALWAYS fast forward through those stupid, useless pharmaceutical ads.  I refuse to even give those ads a moment of my attention.  Prescription meds are not so...more

Thank you Liz for the great article.  It is so true that there are people out there that barely make it from paycheck to paycheck.  I am one of those people.  I would love to be able to afford a nice house, a yearly vacation, health insurance, and a housekeeper to come in a couple of times a month, but, alas, that all ...more

Love it!!

"Every policy should have a $3,000 dollar deductable. If you cant afford that you are living to high on the hog."     Are you freaking kidding me????  I'm sorry.  Guess I should quit eating so I'm not living so "high on the hog".   Or maybe I should be homeless, that will save me some money.   Give me a freaking bre...more

Yet another beautiful illustration of how messed up our system is.  I don't know why anyone would think that an unemployed person would be willing to pay 80% of their income for health insurance like COBRA.  It's a freakin' joke!!  Our system is out of control.