Love Drop and the Weekend Roundup

Before moving on to my favorite bloggers, let’s go to Love Drop and check out what they’re up to this month: trying to raise 13 grand to buy a service dog to help a family with not one but two autistic children. This is big, folks:

What else is going on out there?

At My Journey to Millions, Evan discovered that parenthood saves money in unexpected ways. Some of the saved cash is going to buy life insurance on the new kid; before your murmur “bad karma,” take a look at his reasoning.

Meanwhile, Revanche is still dealing with the opposite problem: parents who are growing more dependent in old age.

At the Ultimate Money Blog, Mrs. Money offers several home remedies for dandruff. Before you reach for the Selsun Blue with all its strange ingredients, try one of these first.

Donna Freedman emits an elaborate rant at Surviving and Thriving, spinning off the latest news-bleat, “frugal fatigue.” This appears to be what the herd journalists regard as the logical outcome of the late, great “new frugality” spawned as the recession-that-is-not-a-depression bore down upon us. LOL! One reason I canceled the local paper was exactly this kind of predictability.

At the Digerati Life, SVB suggests several fall-back resources for 99ers—people who run out of unemployment insurance—plus some steps you can take in advance to mitigate the effects of potential joblessness.

At Brip-Blap, Steve comes up with a nice contrarian take on net worth. Suspicions confirmed!

Mrs. Accountability is getting worried about the looming increases in prices across the board. With gasoline at $3.15 a gallon and rising, you can be sure everything that has to be trucked in or needs energy for production will also go up. For sure, it’s time to start stocking up—next week when the new budget cycle starts again, it’s off to Sprouts, Target, and Costco to replenish the food and cleaning goods hoard.

Frugal Scholar reports an ethical dilemma posed by a conversation overheard in a thrift shop. It’s an interesting post with a number of interesting implications.

Money Crush has a good post on finding part-time home-based work, in which she suggests a number of issues to consider when thinking about this as a possibility.

At Bargaineering, Marquit reports that the government is about to inflict…uhm, offer debit cards for tax refunds. I can hardly wait.

Go to Bargain Babe today to nail the amazing list of discounts, goodies, and leads to sales she just put online. It’s one treasure trove after another at that site!