Savvy Saving Bytes

I’m halfway into the first paragraph when IT slides across the screen aiming straight for the spot where I’m reading. Then zip – it’s there! Another freaking online survey covering up and obliterating the article I’m trying to read.  NO, for the millionth time! I will NOT take a “few minutes” to answer a “few [...]

For the past few years my renters insurance premiums have seen pretty steep increases, but this year’s 2012 bill catapulted my blood pressure to the top of the charts. The insurance company I’ve been with for years upped my annual bill by 20%! The reason? Not a single one on my end. Last year not [...]

Oh boy! Over a week before Halloween and ALREADY the shelves in the 99-Cent store are stuffed with Christmas glitz. Stores roll out their Christmas goodies earlier every year, but this — with Thanksgiving more than a month away — is Crazyville. Or so I think till a little research informs me that 40% of [...]

My first run-in with a pickpocket happened in the most innocent of places — an outdoor fruit and vegetable market on Second Avenue. A finicky shopper when it comes to fresh veggies, I was giving some red peppers the old eagle eye, when a nearby shopper suddenly leaned in closer to pick up a pepper [...]

Money is nice stuff and there are plenty of good reasons to have plenty of it. But there are also reasons why having barrels of money (as in “rich”) can sometimes be a big pain or downright trouble. Here are ten reasons I’m glad I’m not rolling in greenbacks: Nobody is pursuing me with arsenic [...]

My apartment has been burglarized twice, but the second break-in — involving police with drawn guns, the Puerto Rican Day Parade and an apartment door smashed in two pieces — was far more dramatic. Away for the weekend, I returned home Sunday afternoon to a street pulsating with loud Latin music and revelers celebrating the [...]