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Thursday Night Link Love
I haven’t written a link love post in quite a long time, so long in fact that one of these links dates all the way back to January! I’ve been weeding out a lot of my feeds over the last few months, but the blogs listed below have been favorites of mine for quite a long time now. Without further ado here is a list of my favorites. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
- How much stuff should you own? The answer is simpler than you think.
- Letting Go of Expectations
- A Peak Life is Lived Off-Peak
- Minimalist parenting: The frugal choice
- What to Do For Your Marriage Everyday
- The Ideal Inheritance: Wisdom and Guidance, Not Money
- 52 Great Weekend Projects to Improve Your Life
Link Love on a Rainy Sunday Morning
As my son was taking his morning nap I took a little time to weed through my RSS reader and glance at the Washington Post. Here are a few favorites:
- The Mom Stays in the Picture
- 4 (Totally Surprising Life Lessons We All Need to Learn)
- 20 Things Everyone Should Master by Age 40
- Capital Assets (A Detail Analysis of the Personal Finances of all 535 members of Congress)
- Money and Morality Tales
Also check out this quiz to help you pick your presidential candidate.
Link Love on a Thursday Evening
My poor google reader is clogged with starred articles I hope to read, but never seem to get around to. I tried to highlight a few of my favorites, but believe me there are still hundreds of unread posts still swimming around in there…
Here are a few favorites I managed to read this afternoon:
At 10 months my son is now sleeping solidly through the night, but I can’t seem to go to bed at a reasonable hour. Laura Vanderkam wrote an article that could’ve been typed straight from my keyboard. As a stay-at-home mom I love being home with my son, but I also yearn for those few hours in the night when I can have ‘me’ time. Once night time comes I simply cannot convince myself to go to sleep.
Little Miss Moneybags opened up about her struggles with infertility and the fact that her insurance won’t cover the treatments she may need to conceive. I give her major kudos for discussing the topic and hope that everything works out for her.
Once you read Little Miss Moneybags article check out the guest post on Simple Mom. It explains why you should stop asking childless women when they plan to get pregnant.
I loved this post about the politeness tax. My husband has overpaid for things on more occasions then I can count. He paid $1,000 over asking price for our jeep, because the previous owner looked so sad when he signed over the title.
I enjoyed Wise Bread’s article on frugally paying it forward. I agree that those little things in life can really make someone’s day. I’m constantly holding doors open, letting people step in front of me in line, buying unexpected gifts. leaving unused coupons on items in the grocery store and adding extra change to stranger’s parking meters. I also think a smile is underrated this day and age. A simple smile, (especially to the older generation), can go a remarkably long way.
Project Happily Ever After wrote a great post about dedicating every thought, word and action to the benefit of others. Alisa Bowman, (the author of that blog), dedicated her birthday to making others happy. It melds well with the article above and goes to show that a change in perspective can lead to a change in overall satisfaction. Whenever I’m especially nice I do feel happier.
Lastly I have a bunch of zucchini in my fridge that is about to spoil. The Frugal Girl recently posted a bunch of recipes and I really hope to try the chocolate zucchini bread this week.
Sunday Night Link Love
A few of my favorite blog posts from the past few weeks:
- Balancing Media Use and Motherhood (Science of Mom)
- The George Costanza Opposite Rule (The Minimalist Mom)
- Earn more or save more…do we have to choose? (The Frugal Girl)
- The Curiously Tragic Case of the Bonsai Tree (Becoming Minimalist)
I also want to thank the following blogs for linking to One Frugal Girl. Thanks to you I received more hits than ever before in a single month.
Our Little One Arrived!
Last Sunday my husband and I were blessed with the arrival of a healthy, 8 pound, 21 inch baby boy! Our hearts are bursting with love for this new little addition to our family!
Sunday Night Link Love
A few posts I really enjoyed this week:
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Frugal: Battling My Anti-Frugal Personality (Frugal Dad)
- The Danger of Neglecting Time Alone (Becoming Minimalist)
- Extreme Couponing Fuzzy Math (Consumerism Commentary)
- What To Do When You Hate Your Job (Thousandaire)
- 75 Reminders for Tough Times (marc and angel)
Saturday Night Link Love
It has been a ridiculously long time since I last wrote a link love post. Between preparing for the baby and my soon-to-be unemployment I’ve had very little time to devote to checking out the stories in my RSS reader.
I took a little time to catch up on all of the articles I’ve highlighted over these last few weeks. Here are a few of my favorites:
- 10 Things That Hold You Back from Outrageous Success (Dumb Little Man)
- 7 Steps to Get the Life You Want and Deserve (Upgrade Reality)
- The Blurry Line Between Experiences and Stuff (Get Rich Slowly)
- “Hard Work Never Killed Anyone” – Really? (Pick the Brain)
- The Danger of Neglecting Time Alone (Becoming Minimalist)
- What is Minimalism? (Becoming Minimalist)
Link Love on a Saturday Morning
I haven’t written a link love post in quite awhile, so without further ado here are a few links from the last month or so that I really enjoyed:
- Simplify Your Life: What Not To Buy
- Redefining Simple Living: What It Isn’t
- The Great Big List of 75 Frugal Gifts You Can Give This Christmas
- Choosing What to Have… and What Not to Have
- I’ll show you my salary if you’ll show me yours.
- Couples and Money: Do You Have Joint or Separate Finances?
- Reader Story: Even Better Than Enough
Link Love on a Sunday Afternoon
A few of my favorite posts from the past two weeks.
- Space out. It does your brain good. (Simple Mom)
- Enjoying Life in the Slow Lane (Becoming Minimalist)
- I’m gonna hug you, then PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE (Clever Dude)
- A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks (NY Times)
- 25 things chefs never tell you (Food Network Magazine)
- Illogical Debt (Sweating the Big Stuff)
Celebrating Another Anniversary
My husband is not the best at celebrating birthdays and anniversaries, but the remaining days of the year he is the most caring and sweet man to bless this earth. Honestly I don’t think he sees any reason to focus on a special day. I also think he feels pressured to choose the perfect activity, the perfect gift, and the perfect meal.
I always tell him it’s just the thought that counts and I certainly don’t need expensive gifts, but nevertheless he seems to dread special occasions. This year I wrote an instruction manual for my birthday and in retrospect I should have written a similar manual for our anniversary, because when he woke up I could sense that familiar trepidation.
So I took the day by the reigns and planned our activities. A good friend gave my husband a gift certificate to a tiny, upscale restaurant back in January. We intended to make our way up there for months, but never seemed to find the time to make the trip. Today seemed like the perfect day for a drive so we took a leisurely 40 minute trip north and ended up at an adorable little restaurant where we dined on sliders and pizza and the most decadent creme brulee with chocolate ganache I’ve ever eaten in my life.
We drove to the hardware store after lunch and purchased a fire pit for our backyard patio. If the rain hadn’t come I’m sure we would’ve spent the evening roasting s’mores, but as the weather pressed on we moved the festivities inside and stacked wood in our indoor fireplace.
We spent the evening preparing vodka cream sauce for dinner and tikka masala for this week’s lunches. There is no place I’d rather be than cutting up vegetables and stirring delicious sauces beside my husband. It’s one area of our lives that has truly blossomed since our marriage six years ago.
I can’t imagine a world without my husband. Happy anniversary! What a perfect way to celebrate it.
