I’m curious. Who has any of the below in their house?
– “Good silverware/china” – bonus points if it’s in a display cupboard
– Liquor cabinet
– Coat closet
– Actual dining room
Growing up, we had none of those. Imagine my surprise as I got older and saw how a lot of people lived.
Anyway!
MONEY
Young And Thrifty admits to her Groupon addiction and is putting herself on a withdrawal plan (and if you’re going to Hawaii, check out her post on the Go Oahu card).
Jackie at Moneycrush lists the 12 financial temptations.
Need some inspiration to boost that bottom line? Read Get Rich Slowly’s super-guide to supercharging your income.
Little House blogs about budgeting using dollars versus percentages.
So apparently Kim Kardashian has launched a credit card. WTF-ery aside for the moment, I think Kevin’s take sums it up.
WORK
A guest post on Penelope Trunk about when it’s right to choose a temp job over a permanent one.
Adam at Man vs Debt rethinks the messages he’s sending his daughter about “having” to work.
Dollars and Deadlines explains how to simultaneously write two articles on the same topic for different markets. She also talks opportunity cost; I’ve been on both sides of the fence – set rates and per-hour rates, and it’s certainly frustrating to find your time blowing out on stories for the former.
Ben at No Ordinary Rollercoaster interviews Rene Ross, a champion for the rights of sex workers in Halifax.
Which office stereotype are you? Lawyer Working Girl has the answers…
LIFE and everything else
Teri at Your Life Sentence offers her take on Gwyneth Paltrow’s new song, Country Strong.
So Caroline Says retells the shock of finding out that her dad proposed to her mother…without a ring!
Geek in Heels has a guest post on moving from the suburbs and adapting to city life.
Another awesome guest post…Not That Kind Of Girl vacates the stage temporarily to give us an insight into The Ex’s mind. AND THERE’S VIDEO!
Hannah Katy pens a love letter with a difference.
The Backpacking Journalist shares her experience of dining in the dark.
Amber answers some questions about the pesco-vegetarian diet.
Cool! Thanks for the mention- 2 birds with one stone too!
I had a liquor cabinet growing up, and remember raiding it when I was a teenager for the XO and other expensive liquor. To this day, I don’t think my parents realize they are missing.
Definitely don’t have expensive China and I’m not a big fan of the concept (really, who wants to eat off plates and dishes that they are scared of breaking?)
I raided my parents liquor ALL the time. (Would steal a little liquor and replace it with water…and then I’d hear my mother saying, “This drink is weak! Did you even put anything in this??”) 🙂
Thanks for the shoutout! I love checking out all these different blogs/stories that you link to!
Thanks for including my link! Growing up, we had a china cabinet, but not a separate dining room. Now, I don’t really have any of these, although my dining area is now slightly separate from the living area.:)
We had none of these growing up…and I still don’t. Although you don’t really need a coat closet in Florida. 😉
We had a coat closet. We didn’t have a liquor cabinet, but we did have a built-in bar in the basement (which we rarely used) and a wine rack in our kitchen (which was used daily.) And we had two sets of good china. One was kept in the basement and rarely used. The other I remember my mom using for coffee/pastries when we had certain guests over, like my aunt on my dad’s side. And we used to have a separate dining room, but then we remodeled and made the floor plan more open, so it wasn’t anymore, technically.
I currently have none of those. But we do have a separate mini-fridge for beer, so that’s almost like a liquor cabinet!
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I love when you share great posts like this. Good to see such interesting reads this week!
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