Carnival Wrap-Up and Site Updates 6/14/08
Posted by Lise on 13 Jun 2008 at 04:33 pm | Tagged as: meta
I participated in two carnivals this week:
Four Strategies That Are Frugal Only If Your Time Is Worth Nothing appeared in Festival of Frugality #129, hosted at Money Ning. My article was slightly controversial and almost opposite the “try a little harder” theme for the week, but I got some valuable comments on it nonetheless. Some other articles I liked from this week’s festival were:
- Why You Should Focus On Spending Less Over Earning More at SavingAdvice.com. While you can’t underestimate the power of extra income, I like that Shannon mentions on one of the most compelling reason to focus on spending less: unless we learn to control our spending first, it will just keep pace with our income, leaving us no more available cash at the end of the month.
- Where To Buy Cheap Spices at FeedtheFam.com. Spices are an integral part of cooking delicious, healthy food, and shouldn’t be neglected due to cost. Indian groceries are my favorite places to buy spices in just the right quantities, but Gretchen suggests some other alternatives that are new to me.
- Repurposing Items for the Garden at Frugal Pursuit. As a gardener myself, I definitely will be putting some of these to use – especially the first, since my town won’t recycle milk jugs and I have a thirsty apple tree.
Four Expensive Garden Mistakes I’ve Already Made, So You Don’t Have To appeared in Carnival of Money Stories #63 at Bible Money Matters. Some other stories that caught my eye were:
- Build A Business Before You Go Solo at The Digerati Life. As someone who aspires to be self-employed, I know there’s a learning process to go through before I’m ready for that. For one, if I just up and quit my job today, I suspect I’d have a hard time adapting to having more time on my hands – and would end up spending it all watching Judge Judy instead of building a business.
- 10 Surprising Implications of the Global Rise in Food Prices at CurrencyTrading.net. This is a dense article, but a must-read for PF bloggers. We have a responsibility to understand economics as well as personal finance.
Also, we now are available at www.frugalfruitlands.net! You should be able to use links that begin with both “www.frugalfruitlands.net” and “www.electric-monk.net/lise” to access the site from now on. There should be no change in how RSS feeds or permalinks are handled – please let me know if you experience any problems.
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Thanks for the mention!
(I tried to check out your gardening mistakes article but the link didn’t take me to it, just FYI…)
Hi Gretchen! Sorry about that, I was incorrect: I AM having problems with the domain name switchover. Try this:
http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/2008/06/05/four-expensive-garden-mistakes-ive-already-made-so-you-dont-have-to/
Thanks for the mention. It’s always appreciated.
thanks for the mention of the carnival of money stories!
On cheap spices: Around here we do happen to have a Penzeys, but you can also try Christmas Tree Shops, they often have spices at $1 a container, instead of the $3-$5 of grocery stores.
Hi! Thanks for linking to my post–and finding some value in it.
I should have read your article on gardening mistakes though. I put some late tomato seedlings outside today and they were not happy with my decision. Grow plants earlier and more gradually introduce them to the outdoors–check.
Hi Frugal Pursuit, and welcome. Glad you see some value in my articles too – I’m sensing we have a lot in common… :)