My grandmother passed away this Sunday, and for the past few days I’ve been scrambling to get to where she lived so my wife, sister and I can attend her funeral. So, on Monday morning, my wife and I each went our bosses to request time off for bereavement so that we could book our […]

Sorry everyone for the server downtime. Pinching Copper has been pretty much unreachable for the past two days. Hopefully (fingers crossed), the worst is over. I got a lot of traffic from social networking sites and MSN Smart Spending over the past few days, and my budget hosting account couldn’t handle the load. Not having […]

It’s been another great week here at Pinching Copper. I again participated in a some blog carnivals over the the course of the past week:

No Debt Plan hosted the Carnival of Debt Reduction. No Debt Plan is a great site, and has some terrific articles that are worth checking out!
The Happy Rock hosted the Carnival […]

I was browsing Yahoo today, and I was appalled at the article that came across their front page. Their featured article was a story on how home sales have slowed to their slowest pace in sixteen years. But that’s not what’s important. Listed below their featured article was an accommpanying article that tried to break […]

I know a lot of times when I’m shopping I see a price tag and think to myself “That’s not bad”. If it’s over $100 I’ll probably stop and think about it for a minute and then go ahead and purchase it. In my my mind, $100 dollars isn’t the end of the world. But […]

Let’s face it, the housing market is a wreck. Realtors and home builders say that the market is due for a comeback at the end of this year, but at this point it looks like we can kiss 10% yearly appreciation goodbye. Now that the housing market is in freefall, congressmen are clambering for ways […]