Savvy Saving Bytes

On a bus heading uptown, a woman in the seat behind me exclaimed, “I always say you get what you pay for!” Her male companion immediately agreed. “You know it,” “he echoed. “Buy cheap, you get cheap!” declared the woman. “You got that right,” agreed her friend. As it happens, I have often found that [...]

Impatiently waiting for the real estate market to recover from the recession, my niece, spurred on by the $8,000 government tax credit for new homebuyers, finally jumped in and bought herself a house. Happily for her, she’ll be paying property taxes in Virginia, one of the twenty states that have the lowest property tax rates [...]

A contented apartment renter in New York City, I have never bought, nor considered buying, a co-op apartment, a country house, a beach house, a car or any ritzy extravagance like a fur coat or jeweled bauble. Consequently, I have never taken out a loan or borrowed money. Years ago I was advised by a [...]

The idea was simple and immediately appealing when I spotted it in the Charlotte Observer. Take a big batch of onions and, with minimal time and effort, caramelize them all at one shot. Then during the rest of the week, spark up lunches, dinners and snacks with the savory, intensely flavored onions. And are any [...]

One minute after the stock market opened, I knew there was a problem. The stock (let’s call it ZXA) didn’t jump out of the gate, raring to go, as it usually did. But when two more of my Bulletin Board stocks also didn’t show any trades in the first few minutes, I thought it might [...]