Weekly Round-Up: Learning to Budget Edition

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It’s been a great week for me. I’m done budgeting my last paychecks and my car loan balance is down to $1800. I still have money in my bank account for food and gas the next couple of weeks and I intend on spending it wisely.

Here are some posts fro this past week that I enjoyed.

• Grad Girl has her first lesson in Free Fun. She shares a lesson in preparation.; I had a similar experience.
• Are We Ready for a Cashless Society? Broke Grad Student asked the question and looked at the responses given. I as amazed how polarized the opinions were. It’s an issue that I believe we’ll continue to face as use cards more and more in our financial transactions.
• Poorer Than You wants to “Know Where the Money Goes”. Actually Stephanie wants you to know where your money goes. I’m going to try this by using Google Spreadsheets. I’m interested in seeing I do.
• I use Google Analytics with this site as I try to improve its usefulness. Jennifer shares what terms bring people to her site. She has a most bizarre search term.
• If you’re a personal who love to examine the ethics of different situation, try MFA or Bust’s post on the Ethical Cheapskate. Better yet, read and share it with others to have a real discussion.
• Spilling Buckets (our newest College Money Network members!) ask an important and self-examining question in The abandonment of work life balance: True job security. I’m happy that they’ve joined and this post is a great example way having them makes the network even better.

• Weekly Round-Up: Tying the Knot They did it! My brother in law and my friend are now husband and wife. It was a beautiful ceremony and even with a hiccup, it turned out great. The reception was fantastic with the music, food, and friends. Let me be the one who calls you baby All the......
• Start a Side Business While Looking for a Job The following article is a post in a two-week series on “Graduating From College During a Recession” presented by the members of the College Money Network. You can get all of the posts in this series and more by subscribing to the College Money Network RSS feed. There are two routes......

• Weekly Roundup: Weekend Reading Edition Photo courtesy of bravenewtraveler These weekly roundups are beginning to resemble carnivals ("The Frugal Dad Carnival" has a nice ring to it) because I am finding so many excellent articles to share with readers.  At some point I may have to split these into a twice-weekly list, but for......
• The Friday Gathering - The spring sick edition Seems that the sickness time of the year has once again come upon the "Gibble family". I spent all of last weekend and Monday and Tuesday down and out with what I think was the flu combined with bronchitis.  I was miserable. I'm still not 100%, but certainly feeling......