In order to bring the hemming and hawing and indecisiveness to an end, my wife and I have agreed that by this coming Sunday night, we will have definitely selected a house that we will put a serious offer in on the following Monday morning. We have eleven house tours scheduled this week and we’re hoping to look at one or two in closer detail this Saturday or Sunday morning if need be. It’s going to be fun.

Top Five Hacks For Intelligent Investors While I haven’t started actually investing in individual stocks, I have started tracking some of them, and these are some pretty interesting ideas. (@ fat pitch financials)

Six Great Ways To Remove Stains With Household Products Dumping a bunch of table salt on spilled red wine really works, trust me on that one. (@ wise bread)

Why Antiques Cost Less Than You Think My grandma used to say that if you kept something for a while, it became cheap and shabby, but if you kept it for even longer, it became an antique and thus valuable. I loved her. (@ get rich slowly)

The Simple Dollar Retro: Ten Ways To Save Money On Your Evening Commute With gas over three dollars a gallon even here in ethanol-subsidized Iowa, these tips are pretty timely.