A successful yard sale outing depends more on planning and less on shopping, according to the folks at Fire Finance ( www.firefinance.blogspot .com), a top-rated personal finance blog written by Amalendu Haldar and his wife, Hoimonti Basu, a pair of engineers from Boston. Using maps, power tools, paper towels and ropes, they hunt down yard sale deals for their home. Here are some of their tips: ...more

October 20, 2007

Six friends went to a fishing tournament looking to catch some grouper. They caught an 844-pound mako shark instead. ...more

October 15, 2007

Everyone calls them 'the Carries.' Because the two Citrus Park women are inseparable, it's simply easier to make their shared name plural than try to remember their last names. ...more

September 27, 2007