Mighty Bargain Hunter

Link roundup: Ukrop’s edition

February 19th, 2008 | by mbhunter |

I’m really thankful for little kindnesses. Ukrop’s, a regional grocery store chain, has been great to us. After we found out our daughter had a lot of food allergies (including dairy), we were buying out grocery stores’ supplies of soy milk that didn’t give her a reaction. Ukrop’s has let us buy in quantity, and given us a discount from retail. We just call up an order a little bit in advance of when we’ll need it, and it’s ready for us. We just go and pick it up. This saves us a lot of time, and a bit of money, too. Ukrop’s didn’t have to do this for us.

Here are links of interest from the MBN and others:

• Get Rich Slowly makes mortgage prepayment easy.
• Free Money Finance, however, wonders about pre-paying a mortgage vs. investing.
• All Financial Matters addresses how much a reverse mortgage costs.
• Consumerism Commentary discusses Charles Schwab’s Categorizations of Generation X.
• Wise Bread keeps the budget in budget travel.
• Five Cent Nickel explains what it means to short a stock.
• No Credit Needed realized that paying for college for three kids is going to be expensive.
• Generation X Finance says that your investments may not be as risky as you think.
• Lazy Man and Money describes what’s changed about how he and his wife celebrate Valentine’s Day.
• The Digerati Life slashed their budget by 25% now that they’re trying to live on one income.
• The Sun’s Financial Diary asks what it takes to be a millionaire.
• Money Smart Life explains a few things about flood insurance.

Also, a big thank-you to My Dollar Plan for featuring my post on strong piggy banks as an editor’s pick in last week’s Carnival of Personal Finance!

Enjoy!

Questions tagged savings at Cash Commons:

• Automated Savings
• Should I pay down my debt of try to build an emergency fund in savings?
• What's the purpose of a mortgage offset account?