The stress of two mortages
If you’ve been following me here on Gather Little by Little over the past year or so, you’ll know about our quest for a new home. If your fairly new here or maybe even need a refresher let me summarize for you.
Archive for December, 2008
The 12 Days of Christmas – Personal Finance Style 2008
Last year the M-Network started something that we decided to make our own holiday tradition: The Twelve Days of Christmas – Personal Finance Style. Following the theme of the original song, we each wrote about different aspects of personal finance one for each of the 12 days.
This is the formal kick off for The 12 Days of Christmas – Personal Finance style 2008. As each of the M-Network members posts their articles, I’ll add the links here.
We sincerely hope you enjoy this ongoing tradition of ours. If you missed last year’s, you can read day 1 over at Being Frugal.
When is something too expensive?
My Dad and I had an interesting discussion the other evening. He currently has a standard definition TV and uses an antenna to receive local television broadcasts. With the upcoming requirement to go digital, he’s been trying to decide on what to do. His options are: purchasing a digital converter box, getting cable service, or satellite. He doesn’t want a satellite, but was considering going cable until I told him how much it cost.
