“You’re using another agent?” I blurted. I was her cousin, wouldn’t she at least give me a chance?

Bottom line: if you want a metziah, go to the flea market. If you want a house, expect to pay real money

Why should girls wait until they’re tackling a new marriage, and possibly a new city and a new job, to learn how to cook?

Luckily, I wasn’t expecting when I went to meet Dorothy. But from that point onwards, I’d scan living rooms for possible kehunah-issues

But this wasn’t about the numbers; it was about a warped mindset

You may think you know everything about your spouse. But when you go house-shopping together, there are bound to be differences and surprises

“You can do this!” I told her. “Take all the laundry — clean, dirty, all of it — and put it in baskets in your car”

The doctor had just gotten married, and his wife detested his house; they wanted to sell it along with most of the furniture in it

I was thrilled to pass the test. But there were hundreds of dos and don’ts I’d need to pick up on my own