Mighty Bargain Hunter

Link roundup: Quilt’s almost done edition

July 20th, 2008 | by mbhunter |

I’ve mentioned before off and on that my wife is an excellent quilter. She blogs about blocks here and we have a few of her patterns up on eBay. She’s been working on her first contest entry for a couple of months now, and she’ll submit it on Monday. I’ve seen her work on it every night for a while and it’s great to see how her efforts have taken form.

Here are links of interest from the MBN and other blogs in my reader:

• Consumerism Commentary suggests not comparing yourself to others with regard to net worth. (It’s largely a race against yourself; no one else’s net worth really matters nearly as much.)
• Five Cent Nickel talks about BankRate’s Safe & Sound ratings for financial condition. (I think the bottom line is that if you have well under $100,000 in your account, you’re fine regardless of where your money is.)
• Free Money Finance is all for de-junking.
• Get Rich Slowly has risen to the occasion when it comes to baking bread. (My mother in law — and my wife — both have this art mastered and I can tell you there’s no comparison to good, freshly-baked bread.)
• No Credit Needed, fresh back from camp this evening, wrote the second post in his bills-in-a-box series.
• Wise Bread turns down free money because the risk just isn’t worth the reward.
• All Financial Matters advises not cashing out your 401(k) before the appointed time. (More Americans are doing this and it’s a costly way to meet expenses.)
• Digerati Life discusses credit reports and who uses them.
• Generation X Finance polls his readers as to when the market is going to recover.
• Money Smart Life interprets the wealth wisdom of Kung Fu Panda.
• Sun’s Financial Diary reveals some investments you might want to catch wind of.
• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity runs down the best places to sell your stuff.
• Cash Money Life reminds us not to underestimate the little things.
• Not Made of Money introduces the Frugal Blog Network.

Also a big thank-you to The Budgeting Babe for including my airline walletectomy article in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance!

Have a great rest of the weekend!

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?