Mighty Bargain Hunter

Link roundup: Ukrop’s edition

February 19th, 2008 | by mbhunter |

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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!