Two of my articles were in carnivals this week. My article on taking advantage of your public library was an editors pick at the Carnival of 20-Something Finances, Haiku Edition over at Dollar Frugal. Brooke’s haiku summed up my entire article in 17 syllables. Here’s her haiku, it will save you from reading my 395 word article:
The other article that got included was the one about hard selling telemarketers from India. It got included over at the Carnival of Personal Finance over at Green Panda Treehouse.
Here are some of the articles I found interesting this week:
Tip Diva offers some useful suggestions for eating on a budget. She reminds us not to be wasteful and that things are not always a screamin’ deal when they have little voice boxes on them that shout out your deepest and darkest personal secrets until you place them in your cart – like that can of Jiffy peanut butter did the other day. My wife swore she couldn’t hear it – I think she was lying.
Change Your Tree reminded me just how brilliant I am for having something like our Regular Expenses Savings as a line item in our budget. His article used a less obtuse name for this category of funds, but I’ll make you click on the link to find out what it is. Oh, I’m such a tease!
The Baglady reminds me why I’ll probably never be a ’somebody’ at a place of employment – because I’d probably use every single one of her Tips for Surviving Meetings even when the meeting is that long, that boring, or that lame. I really need to get my act together … or do I!
I also liked the article over at fabulous finances that taught me how to play hard ball about a raise … like that will ever happen. I especially liked the part where I was encouraged to leverage a potential position outside the company to get a bigger raise. It reminded me about how Michael Scott tried to leverage a raise by threatening to withhold sex from his boss. Threats must be a good idea.
I’m glad you enjoyed my blog post – and Jiffy certainly does render you deaf