Favorite Posts, Mentions, and Top Comments Week of 7July2013

I have had a really nice week!  I didn’t get enough done at work, though, so I’ve had to make up for it this weekend.  🙁  Last Sunday we met Cash Rebel on the way home from our trip to Madison, WI.  We had a pretty normal workweek; we’ve left open the chance of playing tennis anytime but it’s been raining every single day!  So disappointing.  This weekend was the weekend of catching up on our Netflix DVDs; we watched City of God on Friday and Apocalypse now on Saturday.  We also had a workday at a local elementary school with our church – I added a flagstone path to and mulched a section of a garden and Kyle weeded another section.

Posts I Liked

Amanda from Frugal Confessions implores us to block out the distractions and do what we really want to do each day.

Edward Antrobus tries to differentiate between a bill and a debt.

Kathleen from Frugal Portland admits she doesn’t feel different now that she’s debt-free.

Vanessa from Cash Cow Couple lists five reasons why she loves being frugal.

Phoebe from All You Need Is Enough lists what she wishes she could tell her boss to encourage her that she can retire early.

Crystal from Budgeting in the Fun Stuff is backing off from being so intense about her budget for her husband’s sake.

Mrs. Pop from Planting Our Pennies doesn’t like the word ‘saving’ because of its ambiguous definition – and neither do I!  I’m trying to say/write “spend less” instead of “save” when that’s what I mean.

Carnivals

First Values and Goals, Then Strategies was featured in the Carnival of Personal Finance #421 and the Carnival of MoneyPros.

How Emerging Is Your Adulthood? was featured in the Financial Carnival for Young Adults.

Do I Want a Camera or Subjects? was featured in the Yakezie Carnival.

Top Comment

Cat from Budget Blonde pointed out on my post questioning whether ‘live like a college student’ is good advice that in her circles there is a line of advice that makes a lot more sense: “Great post! It reminded me of an oft repeated phrase around here which is ‘live like a resident.’ When we talk about paying off the medical school loans, we say we’re going to ‘live like a resident’ for a few years, meaning on around 50k a year, so that we can pay back the med school debt.”

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