Mike at the Saving Money Today hosts this week’s Totally Money Carnival and kindly includes Funny’s rumination on the virtues and vices of Excel and Quicken.
Among the several excellent pieces shown, Flexo’s recent very interesting article at Wisebread resurfaces here, the one where he points out that an emergency plan is better than an emergency fund. He offers several strategies for the proposed plan—well worth considering and thinking about.
Sustainable PF has noticed what’s in dog food, a discovery leading to understandable alarm. This is one of my own favorite hobbyhorses.
Guest author Rayne Parker, writing at Canadian Finance Blog, suggests several ways of unearthing “found money” by going over your budget.
PF Journey writes a Valentine’s Day money story, ingeniously incorporating the entire week’s Carnival of Money Stories. Quite a tour de force! She even worked in Funny’s latest tale of the Workman Waltz. Three good articles from this week:
If you expect to move anytime soon, you should check out Ryan’s experience-based tips for do-it-yourself moving, over at CashMoneyLife. Some outstanding ideas here, to help with what is always a difficult project.
At Personal Finance by the Book, Joe Plemon manages to escape a “great deal”—largely thanks to his wife’s good sense.
Interesting story appears at Money Beagle about how losing your credit card (or…maybe not) can bring unexpected little windfalls.
Well-Heeled Blog hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance, and she also set it up as a story—this one more in the fairy-tale mode. Valentine’s Day really brings out the creativity in bloggers! ;=) Well-heeled kindly included Funny’s squib on long-term care insurance. As usual, this venerable blog carnival includes a vast array of great posts…it’s hard to pick out only three to recommend. How about these…
NicoleandMaggie wonder what possesses high-income earners to fail to set aside enough in savings to protect themselves from penury when hard times come. LOL! Welll…y’know, hard times are for po’ folks. Right?
At One Money Design, Jason offers a very nice survey of money management software—it’s quite broad and includes some that I’d not heard of before.
Len Penzo uses his own family finance planning to describe, with startling clarity, why you need to build an emergency fund and have a plan for what you will do if one of your family breadwinners is laid off. IMHO, everyone should think through this possibility and lay plans while there’s still time to plan.
And My Journey of Personal Finance couches the Festival of Frugality in a series of jokes (gosh, I always thought some of those tales were true examples of great frugality!). Funny’s squib on Delta Dental appears among these posts. Like the CoPF, the Festival is capable of expanding to fill all available space. Check out a few:
WenchyPoo has an interesting post in which she proposes that it’s possible to stay out of supermarkets and warehouse stores altogether.
Jeff Lane asks that perennial question: Go back to graduate school….are you nuts? The recession-that-is-not-a-depression has raised some serious questions about the cost-effectiveness and advisability of graduate and professional programs.
At Mrs. Nespy’s World, Kaye offers several good tips on how to extend the life of your bath towels.
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Thanks for including our dog food article this week!
Thanks for the link!