Here are some of my favorites from the week. I’ll keep it short, since I had some lengthy commentary on some of the articles below. Thanks everyone for all the great writing. Have a great Halloween.
Heather from Want What You Have has great tips on Saving Money During a Crisis. Heather is a long time 100% debt free SAHM mom (Yeah mortgage too). If she only has $20 bucks to feed the family for the week, gosh darnit, she’s going to spend $20 and not a penny more. Her blog is filled with loads and loads of tips and this article is a good summary of many of her best of’s. Her kids are adorable too.
$5 Dinners has a list of her Freezer Staples. She also links to her pantry staples too. Actually the commenters made the post even better with their lists. I’m in freezer envy with Anita. She reminds me that I need to refresh my meatball stash. Maybe that will be the project for this weekend.
Minting Nickels has a Fun article about Smoking in Church. It’s her take on people at the extreme fringe of frugality. It’s an entertaining read.
Satisfying Retirement reminds us what we can Learn from a 3 year old. What a nice reminder to enjoy the simple things in life and not rush through it.
Nicole and Maggie from Grumpy Rumblings of the Untenured have a juicy article on Pet Peeves. It’s a must read.
Long time readers know that I’m a wanna-be homesteader, so I just lapped up this article by Ultimate Money Blog on New Life on a Homestead. It’s a great interview of Kendra‘s transition from debt ridden life to self sufficiency.
Money Beagle and Everyday Tips had a stink theme going this week. If you want to know how to get the stink out of your Kitchen Drain, or Washer, they know stink.
Crystal from Budgeting in the Fun Stuff had articles all over the place this week, but I think my favorite was Do You Exchange Gifts with your Significant Other over at Sweating the Big Stuff.
The winner for funniest post of the week, was Car Negotiation Coach’s ranking of Best Cars to Use During a Zombie Apocalypse. (Dude, my comment is still in your spam folder. Please rescue me.)
The article that wins the prize for getting me the most annoyed about our government is Bucksom Boomer’s story on Food Stamps. Apparently California has a very low food stamp usage and wants more people to apply for food stamps because poor people will have more money to spent on consumer goods. Um you want to give people food stamps so they can go buy an I-phone? The basic math is this: For every $1 you don’t spend on food, you’ll spend $1.84 on something taxable instead. Well, $1 to get $0.18 in tax money in return is certainly is the dumbest math ever. Since it’s federal money, California politicians must see it as free. If this doesn’t summarize how whacked our country is, I don’t know what does. I personally don’t want to be subsidizing people’s consumer purchases…ESPECIALLY if they don’t want the food stamps in the first place. End Rant.
Most Educational post this week if you’re a blogger was Neville’s Financial Blog. His article was the Affiliate Marketing Experiment. I don’t use Ad Sense or any other affiliate marketing on my blog yet, but am thinking about it. He did an experiment where he decided to hock an item via an affiliate via a blog article. He then bought ad-sense ads to increase the page rank of the blog article to see if he could net a profit from it. It’s a 7 part series and he did end up making a profit in the end. Check it out.
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