Roundup for week of 24 December 2007: Mercy Ships edition
December 31st, 2007 | by mbhunter |The sermon in church yesterday was a little different. A guy who attended our church has been a missionairy with Mercy Ships. Briefly, Mercy Ships travels to developing nations to provide surgeries, dental treatment, health care training, agricultural training, and more from a Christ-centered perspective.
Here are some links of interest from the festive folks at the MBN and from other great blogs in my reader:
- Get Rich Slowly discusses Charity Navigator as a guide to intelligent giving.
- Free Money Finance explains what buy term and invest the difference means.
- All Financial Matters shows what a 1% difference in draw rate from retirement funds will do.
- Blueprint for Financial Prosperity manager of the Festival of Frugality, discusses the fundamentals of frugality.
- Consumerism Commentary lists a few ways to get your finances on track in 2008.
- Five Cent Nickel talks about the 2008 Social Security tax cap, self-employment, and other tidbits.
- No Credit Needed opened up a Coverdell Education Savings Account.
- The Digerati Life gives twenty ways to shop safely.
- Money Smart Life suggests a few things to minimize your already onerous gas expense.
- The Sun’s Financial Diary gives some first impressions of Scottrade’s improved mutual fund center.
- Generation X Finance discusses why teens should think about retirement.
- Lazy Man and Money relates personal finance to playing the perfect game.
- Saving Advice turns conventional wisdom on its head and lists ten reasons not to make New Year’s Resolutions.
- Brip Blap thinks that “spend less than you earn” is the wrong way to think. (At least it’s wrong to think only that way.)
- Cash Money Life warns us of upselling.
- Gather Little By Little shares ten goals for his blog in 2008. This is a good list of goals — they’re all specific and measurable. Goest thou and do likewise.
- Mrs. Micah shows off her coin jar. I have one too. The money adds up.
- Money Dummy explains her husband’s tips for good eBay listings.
Thanks to The Simple Dollar for linking to my post on why picking up pennies rocks.
Enjoy!
3 Responses to “Roundup for week of 24 December 2007: Mercy Ships edition”
By Mrs. Micah on Dec 31, 2007 | Reply
Coin jars are the best! Though I didn’t pick up a penny I saw today…it was in something gross and I just said no. Which made me sad.
By glblguy on Dec 31, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the inclusion! Happy New Year!
By Brip Blap on Jan 3, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for including me in the roundup! Mercy Ships sounds very similar to Doctors Without Borders which is a group I support, so good for them – it’s hard to argue with any group that provides medical aid to the infirm; fairly non-controversial!