Moments of Fame
A special thanks to My Life ROI for hosting this week’s Festival of Frugality despite a particularly grim wisdom-teeth extraction. It’s is a large festival at any time, and this week’s is big, diverse, and interesting. My attention was immediately grabbed by Devastate Boredom’s five solid leads to free or inexpensive music. Frugal Babe has accomplished something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: she fixed up the garage, and she did it without spending a dime. Fire Finance highlights a Walgreen’s offer of free clinic care for the newly unemployed and uninsured. Funny’s latest update on microblogging appeared in this festival.
Mighty Bargain Hunter hosts the Carnival of Personal Finance and kindly includes Funny’s report to the effect that real estate may be looking up, at least on a very local level. Two bloggers hold forth about Suze Orman this week, to entertaining effect: Moneymonk and Ask Mr. Credit Card. and Philip of Weakonomics wrote a nice essay for Five Cent Nickel about how deceptive financial appearances can be, my personal favorite of this week’s CoPF.
The wonderfully graphics-rich 11th Heaven Homemaking Haven presents the current Make It from Scratch Carnival. Funny’s recipe for potatoes & cheese, one of the posts that’s had a hard time getting online this week, was included here—if you tried once and couldn’t see the guide for making the stuff, I hope you’ll try again. As usual, this round-up includes some awesome recipes. One that’s particularly interesting, bärlauch soup, comes from The Austerity Kitchen with a bit of European history. Check out the arts and crafts, too: especially useful for the determined frugalist is a scheme to put your defunct credit card to use as a painting tool—would that we were all as talented as Taking Charge!
The Money Hacks Carnival appears at Personal Finance Playbook, whose proprietor kindly included Funny’s squib on the debt-to-income ratio. This carnival is beginning to rival the CoPF for sheer size—106 entries this week! A lot of good stuff here… I like Chief Family Officer’s idea for keeping track of charitable donations. Real estate professionals are anxiously searching for the bottom of the housing slump: check out remarks by Joe Manausa, a Realtor in Tallahassee, and at Relocation.com. If you’re working on paying down a credit card balance, you should read the article on “balance chasing” at Credit Card Assist. And speaking of paying down debt, MoneyNing offers 25 good tips for debt reduction.
Dodgeblogium has put up another Carnival of the Vanities, where Funny’s hooting about GDU’s latest absurdity surfaces. Found a thoughtful essay here on the Malthusian view of bandwidth, posted at Cloud Culture. Did you know Hawai’i has a native crow? Like most of the island’s native flora and fauna, it’s highly endangered; here’s an interesting article at Living the Scientific Life on a new drive to save the bird from extinction.
So it goes.
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