Link roundup: 100 Pushups Edition
June 23rd, 2008 | by mbhunter |A big thank-you to Karen Datko of Smart Spending on MSN MoneyCentral for including my post on ways that being fat costs money. She also featured my new blog, Deflabbify, in that post, and over there I committed to take the 100 Pushup Challenge along with some blogging friends like Jim, NCN, Flexo, JD, Nickel, and Lazy Man, because after all, pain loves company.
Here are some links of interest from the MBN and other blogs in my reader:
- Wise Bread posts on the ultimate green workout: exercise and gardening.
- All Financial Matters talks about increasing your risk tolerance. Educated risk-taking is a wise thing to do once in a while.
- Consumerism Commentary comments on support for a gas tax holiday. Any gas tax holiday will be short-lived, and paid for later. Next!
- Five Cent Nickel dishes out tips to improve your gas mileage.
- Free Money Finance reports that packages are shrinking but prices are staying the same. (And with Moosetracks as a sponsor, he should know.
) - Get Rich Slowly muses on credit cards for cats and for first-graders. Nothing like starting early — or in a different genus!
- No Credit Needed talks about life without credit cards, and is getting famouser and famouser by the minute as he does.
- Digerati Life has advice on finding the best jobs to ride out a recession.
- Generation X Finance debates the merits of exchange-traded funds and mutual funds.
- Money Smart Life kicked off a series on how to sell your own home.
- Lazy Man and Money discusses having an emergency charity fund.
- Sun’s Financial Diary tells where that stimulus check went.
- Christian PF discusses what might happen now that Wal-Mart is in the free classified ads game.
- Think Your Way to Wealth has a list of ten ways to save on your vacation.
- Frugal Dad serves up a monster list of 75 tips to survive a down economy.
Thanks to The Simple Dollar for including my gas guzzler backfire post in his June 18th roundup!
Have a great week!

7 Responses to “Link roundup: 100 Pushups Edition”
By Frugal Dad on Jun 23, 2008 | Reply
Great roundup! Thanks for the mention. I’m working up to the pushup challenge as well–should be good therapy for my recovering shoulder (had rotator cuff surgery last year).
By Pinyo on Jun 23, 2008 | Reply
I think I just recovered enough (after 4 days) to reattempt the week 1 day 1 routine. I didn’t realize how out of shape I got.
Good luck with your deflabbification process.
By FFB on Jun 23, 2008 | Reply
One Hundred Pushups - what all the cool PF bloggers are doing this Summer!
By Flexo on Jun 23, 2008 | Reply
I’m starting week 2 tonight…
By RC@Thinkyourwaytowealth on Jun 23, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the mention! Good luck with the push up challenge, I’m planning on starting that later this week or next week myself.
By Peter on Jun 25, 2008 | Reply
I started the 100 pushup challenge on monday. Just finished my day 2 workout - and my arms are pulsing..
Who knew personal finance and fitness went so well together!
By mbhunter on Jun 25, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for your comments everyone! This will be good for all of us!