Weekly Roundup February 5, 2009

You may remember an article I wrote recently about the possibility of renting out a room in my house. Get Rich Slowly shared a question from a reader recently on this very subject. If you’re interested, check out the comments. There is some great information there!

Pie-Charting My Budget appears in the Carnival of Personal Finance at Funny About Money. Moogamoney wrote an excellent article, The Financial Lessons I’ve Learned From My Younger Self. It’s extremely well written and worth reading.

Creating a Price Book appears in the 176th Carnival of Debt Reduction at Rocket Finance.

The Loose Budget appears in the Carnival of Personal Development at HappinessIsBetter.com.

Granny Smith Apple and Brown Butter Custard Tart appears in the Make It From Scratch Carnival at Greenhab:The Browns Go Green. Check out this interesting recipe for making sprouted wheat bread in the crockpot at Pseudo Life, Real Mind. My Frugal Front Porch has an idea for how to get the egg in Egg Drop Soup to come out in the correct silky ribbons. I’m not sure this is how they do it in Chinese restaurants but whatever works!

Condo Blues has a great post about how to make one of those draft blocking door snakes. I’ve seen a lot of ads on TV lately for this product and I give kudos to CB for figuring out how to make her own.

Fabulously Broke in the City posted about a major want that I share. In fact I was going to write this post myself but now I don’t have to because Why Can’t I Buy This…?, pretty much says it all! It would be a foolish purchase and I don't plan to buy one but, boy am I lusting!