Link Love 1.20.2010

(Get the 'possum out of the henhouse...check!)

Here are a few articles I enjoyed around the web this week:

Funny About Money spent five hours burning paper. She's wondering, how much paper do you keep? I always feel like I'm choking on paper. A bonfire is pretty tempting!

Mighty Bargain Hunter took a look at all the flack some credit card companies have gotten recently when their fee structure was exposed in reference to people charging their charitable donations. I have to say I agree with him, credit card companies can profit from Haiti donations all they want. He's right, their risk and cost of doing business is the same whether we charge groceries or charitable donations to our cards. We make a choice to use our cards for this purpose and charities make a choice to accept credit card donations. If you're up in arms about credit card companies charging their normal fees for these types of transactions, let me ask you this: If credit card companies were willing to waive their fees would you be willing to waive your credit card rewards? Just wondering.

In case you didn't see it, I had a guest post up at My Super Charged Life this week. Jeff is on vacation and asked if I'd submit a post about my experiences this past year. Here's my story of radical change.

Do you have trouble saying no? Lots of people do. Women at Forty took a look at the Power of No.

The next stop on my adventure is secured! I'm going to look after the home of Our Great RV Escape in east Tennessee while they go on their great adventure. They're asking for ideas. Do you have any advice for them?

Some other random stuff -

I spent a day down in Pittsboro, North Carolina this week volunteering at the American Livestock Breed Conservancy offices. These people are doing important work and doing it well.

I recently started following @VeryShortStory on Twitter. Their tweets crack me up. Here's an example -

"I answered the ad for "slave wanted", ready for some adventure. That's when I met Sheila, who was celibate, but needed a lot of chores done."

Here's another -

"I looked at divorce as a new beginning, a chance to strike out on my own, until the judge asked me which of my parents I wanted to live with".

and just one more -

"When it rains, I think about you. I regret not making room for you. Did I really need two of everything aboard when there is only one you?"

You need to follow them!

What are you thinking about this week?