Weekly Roundup

I have to apologize in advance. I was completely distracted by moving my website this week. I remember reading all sorts of fabulous stuff and thinking to myself “I have to include that in my roundup this week” and now it’s time to write my roundup and I can only hope I include everything that I want to.

Here goes

First, I participated in the Carnival of Family Life this week and my post What Happened to Me? was included. From that carnival, I enjoyed reading Cheaper Toys Are Better For Your Kids from The Digerati Life and Six Sources of Procrastination at Enhanced Life.

From my reader:

The Advantages of Keeping Your Eggs in One Basket at The Wisdom Journal. I love this post so much. I even made hubby read it. It’s really true, for us, and when I think about it many things in life to just focus on one thing and do it really well instead of all this half-hearted spreading around of energy. I guess you could say that our home is our basket at this point in our life. We work hard at it and focus on it and that’ll inevitably bring great things for us.

Notes on Life, Mantras, Small Things and Such. I love Zen Habits - very inspiring in general. I really liked this article and it made me look at how I see things and how I talk myself through things too.

The Nester posted pics of her Playroom. I love that idea to use galvanized tubs for toy storage! I need to get our playroom under control.

This article about Friends and Money at Mommy Gets PAID definitely rang true for me. It can be hard to work through money stuff when you and your friends value different things.

Living By Example at Paradigm Shifted. “So I’m going to try a change of pace. I’ll still rant on my blog about American entitlement while a billion people starve. I’ll still send emails soliciting donations for my favorite causes. But I’ll stop criticizing people’s lifestyle choices (at least in their presence). I’ll start walking the talk myself. And maybe slowly I’ll see some positive change both in my life and in the lives of others.” Check out the rest of the article. Good stuff!

Plonkee shared her Top 5 Excuses for Paying Too Much for Clothes. It’s fascinating to me to think about my own life and the reasons I will spend too much for certain things or not spend much at all for others.

The Perfect Gift for a Newborn Baby at Four Pillars. Please read this if you are planning to buy a baby gift ever in your life.

Frugal Babe shared a bunch of interesting stuff this week including progress on their remodel. I loved this post The Cost of a Bigger House. It’s a good reminder that really we don’t need as much house as we think we do and the added costs are often just not worth sacrificing the future for.

Along the same lines, House Envy Update at This Wasn’t in the Plan includes some great thrifty ways to improve things around your own home instead of lusting after other houses.

Debt is Not Life at Debt Smack is an excellent read about having to really take the time to slow down and look at what’s important in life.

And last but not least…

Decluttering With Children at Being Frugal. I am such a sucker for posts about decluttering. Some great tips and ideas here!

Happy reading and Enjoy your Sunday!

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