Flannery O’Connor quipped in a short story that a “good man is hard to find,” but a senior staffer at CC has discovered that finding a good Realtor can be equally elusive. She’s searching for a home in the $350,000-$400,000 price range, which to her represents a daunting amount of money. But, hey, that’s the [...]
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Never-ending Herman Miller sale at Room & Board
Posted in Making Ends Meet, tagged Aeron, Eames, Herman Miller, Mirra, Room & Board on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t ever pay full price for a Herman Miller product. That’s a tip we gleaned during a recent trip to Room & Board’s Oak Brook store.
While perusing R&B’s selection of bookcases, we noticed that Herman Miller designs, such as the Aeron and Eames desk chairs, were marked ten percent off for a limited time.
We asked [...]
Are you better off than your parents?
Posted in Making Ends Meet, tagged Money, Nan Mooney, Parents, Salon on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For years we’ve endured our parents telling us that making a go of it financially was more difficult when they were our age. But mom and dad’s claim is rebutted by the recently published book “Not Keeping Up with Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class.”
Salon.com has an excellent Q&A with the book’s [...]
Chicago Renters Inch Closer to Affording Homes
Posted in Making Ends Meet, tagged Case-Shiller, Chicago, Homes, Rent on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Home prices have dropped 9.3 percent in Chicago over the past year, according to Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index. For home-owning Chicagoans, the news could have been worse: the index, which tracks home prices in 20 major U.S. cities, revealed a 17.8 percent year-over-year decline in home prices nationwide.
Another couple of years like this past one, and those [...]
