"Save up your cash to buy a house; when you have about 1/5 of the price of a house you'd want saved up, make the move.  Your monthly mortgage payment is like paying rent except that you're paying part of it to yourself."

"Get the cheapest place in the best neighborhood you can afford.  Believe it or not, neighborhood is more important than the house/apartment itself.  It governs the people you're surrounded by, the schools your kids will go to, the…"

"Cheap is good, it's not exciting but it helps you get to other places in life faster. Especially if you're not going to be there often because you're at work, out with friends, at the bar, etc. I know a few people where their…"

"When I was 19  I came home one day from work to find the SWAT team staged in my driveway.  I sat on my step and watched a drug bust go off two doors down.  Good times.  It must have been important, because, despite the gunfire…"

"Go cheap on the rent.  You will be very surprised at how much stuff you will need to adequately equip a household (even for just one person) and how much it will cost. On the household accoutrements, though, don't buy the least expensive…"

"Your place shouldn't cost more than 1/4 of your monthly pay."

"Since you want something timeless and not so expensive, stay away from slim fit and baggy fit. Stay with the standard cut. Store brands are cheaper than Internaitonal 'name' brands and are usually just as nice. The basic Levi cut is nice,…"

"I haven't had to buy a pair in a couple years so I wasn't aware that they are made outside the US now. One of the reasons I stopped wearing Levis was because they closed all their American manufactoring and now have them made all over the…"

"I like the ones made by Columbia. They just seem to fit better than Levi's, etc, which always bind me in the wrong places."

"Levi's"

"Good call! Levi's are the tried and true blue jeans."

"Try the Duluth Trading Companies www.duluthtrading.com Ballroom jeans. The name says it all, room for the boys, heavy weight 14oz material, good reinforcement and short break in time. The price is the best thing, about $40.00 a pair plus shipping.…"

"I have good luck with banana Republic denim and I prefer the straight fit dark wash."

"Those are the ones that I am wearing these days, really like them"

"I find Guess pretty hit or miss. A lot of their "trendy" jeans are just tacky and I find some of their denim to be a little too shiny. But they do have some lines that are nice."

"I like the loose straight for a pair of working jeans because they are less likely to bind if I am kneeling down a lot or getting up/down all of the time from the ground. Otherwise I find them a bit too baggy looking for wearing around as casual…"