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MR Review 2011, Jan 16 – Overwhelmed

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Overwhelmed:

It seems like in the process of re-inventing myself, I’m constantly running ragged.  Everything is new, both in a good and bad ways.  A big accomplishment is I got my haircut!  After my barber died, I created a mental block where I just kept pushing off the task until later and later.

Working out has already had benefit in my health.  My strength has come back quickly and I feel a bit better already.  I still need to start my new diet though.

Overall, I’m a bit overwhelmed but also excited…

 

My Favorite Reads of the Week:

101 Centavos:  HSE: Health, Safety and Environmental – Safe Work Practices in The Home  – Info on proper safety practices, and really cool pictures of ingenious workers from poorer countries and their methods to be safe on the job.

My Journey To Millions:  What Does it Mean When an ETF Jumps the Track – The Fonz would be proud if you check this article out!  I know I learn what “Jumps the Track” means, not to mention “Jumping the Shark”…

Budgeting In The Fun Stuff: The Best Financial Advice I Ever Received  – Sounds like BIFS’s dad knows what he is talking about!!!  I wish my family had given the same advice to me!  Luckily, I didn’t want to pass up that free money so I started out jumping into my company 401k’s plan too!

Everyday Tips and Thoughts:  The Snowball of Savings and Health Benefits From Eliminating Pop/Soda – Kris is giving up pop/soda entirely!  I’ve don’t drink pop at work anymore, but I still drink diet pop on the weekends.  So kudos to Kris for cutting the sugar juice out entirely.

First Gen American:  6 Month Blogaversery – Congratulations to Sandy on her 1st 6 months of blogging!!!  She has a truly wonderful site!

Momvesting:  True Savings – I agree with Jessica, why buy stuff just because it’s on sale!  If you’ve never thought about buy something at normal prices, why buy it now?

Financial Samurai:  Should I Have Closed My Credit Cards? – Sam brings out concerns to closing out a credit card account.

Watson Inc.:  The Fall Of The American Democracy! – Shawn point out a great reason why I promote asset diversification, possible buying precious metals in my post: “Does Money Have Value?“.  Maybe even buy some foreign currency…  It couldn’t hurt to have diversified assets.  Check out Shawn’s article, he brings up some great points!

Hope everbody has had a great 1st two weeks of the year, other than the flat I got yesterday…  It’s been a good start.

-MR

MR Cache 2010, Dec 18 – Perfect Christmas Lights

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Weekly Thoughts:

The snow and the unusually high number of houses with Christmas lights, the outside aesthetics has been a thing of beauty!  The Christmas lights shining thought the snow covering bushes and trees made practically every house that had Christmas decorations out look like something out of a classic Christmas movie!

This Saturday evening as I left for dinner, I had to stop and just walk around the driveway admiring all the beautifully light houses along the street.  I usually don’t do this, but everything looks so spectacular, I couldn’t resist!  Plus the brisk chill in the air made me think how pure and crisp the air was.  I was a great experience and I’m honestly thinking about walking around the neighborhood just to enjoy the experience.

My Favorite Post from MoneyReasons.com for the Week:

This week, my favorite post was Christmas Experiences During The Great Depression!  This was a post that was wrote from the heart and to date one of my best posts!  It involved a personal tragedy to my grandmother when she was a child and how she overcame the childhood experience to make Christmas a special time for her children and grandchildren.

Closing Thoughts:

Where I live it truly is beautiful!  This may be the only time that I’d rather live in my city than California or other warmer, ocean front areas.

-MR

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