This Week’s Carnivals and Festivals

This week The Baglady was selected for a few different blog carnivals. Here they are:

The Carnival of Personal Finance #119 at Blunt Money — In this edition I wrote about my current lame 401k program. It wasn’t a very fun article. The following are articles that I really liked from this week

• Mrs. Micah’s dilemma with charitable giving — I have also been meaning to write an article on charitable giving and debt. I feel like she is on the right track. Sometimes I feel like I’m copping out just by giving away money, because giving time and effort is sometimes much more personal and helpful.
• Four Pillars writes about Canadians working in America — I’ve always been a fan of Four Pillars because I actually have a lot of Canadian relatives. My mom’s cousin is actually a Canadian working in Tennessee. The recent monetary decline of the US dollar really hurt her because she sends her money to her family in Vancouver and she’s basically gotten a 30% pay cut in the last few years.
• Moolanomy calculates our true earning powers for luxuries — I thought this article was great because it really breaks it down that after taxes and expenses we don’t really have much money left. That’s why I limit our entertainment budget to 2% of what we earn.

The next place The Baglady showed up is the Festival of Frugality #93 at Money and Values. The featured article is “My Super Cheap Ex-boyfriend”. I made a note that my boyfriend is really cheap, and it goes beyond frugality, and this article was appropriately featured under “Being Frugal vs. Being Cheap”. Additionally I really enjoyed the following articles:

• The Latte Factor at Mr. Cheap Stuff – I know full well what the latte factor is. My hubby is sort of addicted to a drink called “boba”, which is an Asian milk tea drink with tapioca balls in it. When I first started dating him I calculated how much he spent on boba, and it worked out to be a quite large number. Now we moved rather far away from accessible boba shops so he is not getting his fix very often. Sometimes I bring home a treat for him because I work fairly close to a boba shop, but I only buy the special which is a dollar or two cheaper than everything else.
• A Penny Closer writes about When Frugality Becomes an Excuse — If my hubby read this he’d laugh and say, “That’s so you!!”

Next, we have the All Women Blogging Carnival at SultanaBlog. The Baglady’s article on the “mommy wars” has been included. This article has attracted some very thoughtful and detailed comments that I recommend reading. This carnival also had a fairly disturbing but thought provoking article titled Corporate Pedophilia.

Anyway, I hope all of you enjoyed reading these carnivals. If you’re new to The Baglady feel free to subscribe to my full feed!

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