Mighty Bargain Hunter

Friday Fiscals: Flush valve edition

We’re in our new home (albeit with boxes and such).  Tonight I started tackling one of the toilets in an attempt to replace a shot flush valve.  It won for tonight until I can get a bigger wrench.

• Squawkfox explains how to make a budget in an “unboring” way.
• Wise Bread reveals the one question that might get you free money if you’re shown the door by your employer.
• Free Money Finance asks, “When should your net worth reach $1 million?” (How about: “ASAP?”)
• Generation X Finance lists a big twenty-eight ways to save money on car expenses.
• Consumerism Commentary gives some ideas on what to do when friends get involved in MLM.
• Digerati Life says to beware of refund anticipation loans.
• Quest for Four Pillars has a guest post on the risks of buying a foreclosed home.  (Our new home was a foreclosure.  I’ll agree that it’s definitely different than buying from the owner-occupier.)
• Money Ning says that investing in physical gold can cost you.  (Ahh, but will you be able to take delivery when you want it?)
• Frugal For Life is into fiscal fitness.
• Frugal Dad recommends doing something you love before you have to do something for money.
• Budgets Are Sexy wonders what would happen if the unemployed worked for their unemployment checks.  (Kind of like retiring from retirement?  Or maybe not.)
• The Frugal Lawyer discusses where vanity and brokeness compromise.

Have a great weekend!