(What I wish I was seeing outside my window!)
Millionaire Mommy Next Door has an amusing analogy about the power of patience with Five Things the Marshmallow Test Can Teach You About Money Management.
A Foray into Online Social Networking appears in the Rich Life Carnival.
Who was, and in many cases still is, minding the store? This Op-Ed piece from the New York Times, which I first heard about from Green Panda, The End of the Financial World As We Know It, does some pretty accurate finger pointing. It’s an eye-opening read.
Lower Gas Prices, A Mixed Blessing? appears in the All Things Eco Carnival at Focus on Organic. Recycle Cindy is making her own reusable grocery bags from plarn, which is a yarn made from recycled plastic grocery bags. There’s a certain sense of “rightness” about that! Izmet’s Dream has an article on mining e-waste. Yet another environmental hurdle to overcome.
MoneyNing has a good article on 5 Surefire Ways to Stop Thinking Your Paycheck is Never Enough. It all boils down to finding a way to be happy with what you have as opposed to wishing you had something else!
The Wife At Home has a great personal goal on her list of goals for 2009. Among other things, she wants to “develop the discipline to pass up a deal”. That’s a great goal.
Rooms to Let, Fifty Cents appears in the Carnival of Money Stories at Gather Little by Little. Blueprint for Financial Prosperity is contemplating getting a dog on a cost basis and trying to figure out the Total Cost of Owning a Dog. If he thinks about it that way I doubt he’ll get one. It’s impossible to know how much that cute puppy is going to cost you in the long run. You get a dog because you love them and then you figure out how to make it work! The Digerati Life has a very good list of debt elimination tips. Very succinct and very smart.
Of Cabbages and Kings writes about the benefits of using dial-up Internet service in Tips for Looking Cool While On Dial-up in 2009. Having time to multi-task while waiting for your page to load is just one advantage!
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2 comments:
Lots of good articles. Thanks for sharing!
If we can learn to be content, then this year shouldn't be too bad. Buckling down a bit and being conscious of where our money is going are two tactics to ride this through.
@Green Panda - I think that's the best goal of all. We need to hunker down, stay open to opportunity, and get through it!
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