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I’ll Give You My Spare Change if You Let Me Feel Superior

December 26, 2017 by Barnaby

Living in Baltimore, I’ve developed a hard shell. Everyone has a story. Everyone wants your spare change. I’ll cop to sometimes ignoring someone on the street or at a gas station when I don’t have the time or patience for it. I was in one of those moods when we were driving I-70 in Western […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance Tagged With: love others as yourself, mini mart encounter, spare change

When My Dad Almost Struck Gold

December 18, 2017 by Barnaby

My dad grew up in New York state on the North Fork of Long Island. In 1952, when he was 16, his widowed step-grandmother Vera announced she was moving to Oil City, Pennsylvania. But first, she wanted to simplify and downsize. Would my dad be interested in buying her gold coins at face value? At […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance Tagged With: coin collecting, executive order 6102, gold reserve act of 1934, hoarding of gold coins, liberty gold coins, money regrets

We Brake for Free Firewood and Other Frugal Heating Adventures

December 4, 2017 by Barnaby

For men, they say that you marry a younger version of your mom. That may be true, but in one way, my wife Nora is very similar to my dad. I told you before about how Dad is not afraid to lay down a 4-wheel skid (in the days before ABS anyway) if he sees […]

Filed Under: Saving Money Tagged With: free firewood, saving money by heating with wood, thomas kinkade ambiance, vermont castings wood burning stove

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