The “Why Does Everything Always Break at Once?”Edition. First thing – an apology. This Festival of Frugality post should have been up yesterday morning, but as always seems to be the way, things went wrong at the worst possible moment. (Although my boychild reminds me, there’s never a good moment for things to break or [...]
Rent versus Own
For most of my life I’ve been under the impression that owning a home was always the best option financially. Dozens of personal finance books seem to say the same thing and I bought into it. Hook, line and sinker. My family has spent the last dozen years or so scrimping to pay the mortgage, [...]





