This week I am happy to be hosting the Festival of Frugality. With a six week old baby I didn’t have much time to come up with a clever slogan for this week. How about we just call it the Festival of Frugality: Where has the sleep gone edition.
There were a bunch of great articles this week. To keep this to a reasonable length I had to limit the amount that I included.
- Crystal presents Were We Worried When Buying Our New House? Great Question! posted at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff.
- IMB presents Should I Invest in Individual Stocks? posted at Investing Money.
- Aloysa presents Things I Learned About Myself in November posted at My Broken Coin.
- Ashley presents Living Beyond Rich posted at Money Talks Coaching.
- Jon the Saver presents Ideas for Inexpensive Christmas Gifts for Young Children posted at Free Money Wisdom.
- Eddie presents Tipping Etiquette a Touchy Subject For Patrons and Servers posted at Finance Fox.
- Hank presents How To Evaluate The Return On Rental Property And Investment Real Estate posted at Money Q&A.
- Jason presents US Bank FlexPerksR Travel Rewards Visa SignatureR Card posted at Work Save Live.
- Daniel presents Lending Club: One Year Later posted at Sweating the Big Stuff.
- Don presents 5 More Ways To Prepare Your Home For The Winter posted at MoneySmartGuides.
- Invest It Wisely presents 3 Low Cost Ways to Grow Your Small Business posted at Invest It Wisely.
- Kyle presents Moving Jobs? Take Your Retirement Fund with You posted at The Penny Hoarder.
- Amanda L Grossman presents Sometimes it’s Not about Money: My Splurge on an Afternoon at Natural Hot Springs posted at Frugal Confessions.
- Sustainable PF presents 3 Tips for Reducing Consumerism the Holiday Season posted at Sustainable Personal Finance.
- Suba presents Rearranging My Financial Priorities posted at Broke Professionals.
- Passive Income Earner presents How To Rebalance a Stock Portfolio posted at The Passive Income Earner.
- A Blinkin presents How To Dominate The Dow posted at Funancials.
- Maria presents Give Yourself the Spirit of Entrepreneurialism this Christmas posted at The Money Principle.
- Luke presents Will Your Balanced Fund Protect You In The Next Bear Market? posted at Learn Bonds.
- Harry Campbell presents Guest Post: What to Look for in an Online Brokerage posted at Your Personal Finance Pro.
- Rachael presents New Year’s Resolutions posted at Money & I.
- Savvy Scot presents SALLTYE – Spend a Lot Less Than You Earn posted at The Savvy Scot.
- Sicorra presents Blog Planner – An Effective Way to Organize and Manage Your Blog posted at Tackling Our Debt.
- Everything Finance presents Thoughtful yet Cheap Gifts Under $20 posted at Everything Finance Blog.
- Miss T. presents How to Drive Green and Save on Gas Mileage posted at Prairie Eco Thrifter.
- Little House presents Stay Healthy, Save Money posted at Little House in the Valley.
- Justin presents Six Online Shopping Safety Tips posted at My University Money.
- Young presents How a Savings Account Keeps You Out of Debt posted at Young And Thrifty.
- John presents Will Coming Face to Face with Your Future Self Help You Plan for Retirement? posted at Wallet Blog.
- Scott presents How to Answer the Top 10 Most Common Interview Questions posted at One Smart Dollar.
- Shannon McNay presents Is Your Job Keeping You From a Bright Financial Future? posted at ReadyForZero Blog.
- FMf presents Combining Multiple Savings Offers to Maximize Savings posted at Free Money Finance.
- Jeremy presents Credit Card Balance Transfers Can Be Your Friend posted at Modest Money.
- John S presents How to Slash Years Off the Life of Your Mortgage posted at Frugal Rules.
- Emily presents Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft Doesn’t Have to Cost an Arm and a Leg posted at PT Money Personal Finance.
- Emily presents Ways to Monetarily Invest in Your Marriage posted at Evolving Personal Finance.
- Girl Meets Debt presents Girl Meets Debt (No Longer in Financial Denial) posted at Girl Meets Debt.
- Lance presents Use Credit Card Rewards to Pay for Christmas! posted at Money Life and More.
- Jacob @ My Personal Finance Journey presents Creative Christmas Gift Ideas posted at My Personal Finance Journey.
- Glen Craig presents 3 Ways to Have a Less Commercialized Holiday Season posted at Free From Broke .
- Michael presents Rental Car Insurance: Pay With Credit and You’re (Probably) Covered posted at Financial Ramblings.
- Kristen presents 8 Inexpensive Personalized Christmas Gifts posted at My Dollar Plan.
If you are interested in hosting a future Festival of Frugality make sure you sign up now.
Thanks for hosting Sean & including my post. Hope you find some more sleep! 🙂
Thanks so much for including my ReadyForZero post! Congrats on the little one and I hope you’re having a blast!
I am definitely having a blast. 🙂
Thanks for hosting and including me this week Sean!
Congrats on the little one! Indeed sleep seems to disappear when you have a child (ours is only a few days old). It gets better though.
Thanks for hosting!
Thanks for hosting and the inclusion buddy!
Cute girl! Hope all is well.
Anytime buddy
Congrats Glen. How many kids do you have? This was our first.
Thanks for the inclusion!
congrats what a beautiful kid you have there