Weekly Update 22

July 1st, 2012 | 1 Comment

Kyle and I are in Chicago! We left on Friday and are returning home on Wednesday. I think posting will go as usual but I won’t be responsive to comments or commenting on other blogs until we get back. I have enjoyed reading all your comments, particularly on my thoughts on my “class,” and I’ll respond to them as soon as I find some time.

We are unusually unprepared for this vacation because of all the car-repairing and apartment-hunting we’ve done in the last couple weeks, so we’re kind of flying by the seat of our pants day-by-day. I’ll share the trip with you more fully (including the $$, of course) a bit after we return.

Posts I Liked

Get Rich Slowly featured an audition piece that generated a lot of vehement comments that were interesting to read. The author listed her and her husband’s debts but didn’t seem committed or contrite enough for some of the commenters.

Erika from From Shopping to Saving listed nine pieces of bad financial advice her parents taught her.

G.E. Miller from 20 Something Finance brainstormed various motivations for frugality.

Leigh from Leigh’s Financial Journey finally found a condo she loves!

Mentions

From Shopping to Saving featured Strategies for Paying for Vacations in her fave reads.

Kathleen from Frugal Portland featured Does Your Class Match Your Income? in her link love.

Carnivals

Budgeting, Tracking, or Neither? was featured in the Carnival of Money Pros.

Obligations on Your Side Hustle Money was featured in the Carnival of Money Pros and the Carnival of Financial Planning #243.

Strategies for Paying for Vacations was featured in the Festival of Frugality #342.

Top Comment

Michelle @ See Debt Run, Average Joe @ The Free Financial Advisor, and Wayne @ Young Family Finance all challenged the importance I placed on class divides – I suggest you read their comments along with all the other!