April from Get Rich Slowly offers a list of alternatives to keep from buying new purchases. Can you repair? Are there used options? What about renting or trading?

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Despite median home prices across the nation falling by 14 percent to $169,000, there are emerging signs that the housing market may be stabilizing and reaching a bottom. For new or would-be homeowners, mortgage rates below 5% and all the stimulus tax incentives are...

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Wow! Car sales down by down by 20-35% across the board for GM, Toyota, Honda, Chrysler, Ford, etc. in the month of September. Doesn't anybody want a shiny new car nowadays? Is it just the financing that is hurting sales or are people not going to the dealerships? Actually, it's both. People can sense that we are going to be in a recessionary environment for the foreseeable future and getting a car loan is not so easy anymore. Why walk into dealership to try and buy a car when your 620 FICO score will no longer fly with the finance guy.

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