Updates: December 9 – 15

This week, CF and I got up very early Thursday morning and attended the Pan Pacific Christmas Wish Breakfast! It’s becoming somewhat of a tradition for us to bring down a couple of toys for donation – we like that we know exactly where our donations are going. It was really well organized this year, with lots of seating to eat and lots of great food! We got there earlier this year, so the toy pile wasn’t quite as high yet as it was last year (we could still see the stepladder this year…)

 

Don’t forget, we’ve got a pretty sweet giveaway going on right now until December 28th – an Apple iPad 32GB with Wifi! Even if you’ve already liked everyone on Facebook and completed all the other entry options, you can still get a new entry every day by tweeting about the contest. Be sure to stop by all our partners in the giveaway for more ways to win!

Modest Money
Mo’ Money Mo’ Houses
Freedom Thirty Five
When Life Gives You Lemons
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
See Debt Run
Frugal Rules
Work Save Live
Club Thrifty
Making Sense of Cents
iHeart Budgets
Money Q&A
Three Thrifty Guys

Here’s some good holiday reading from around the web:

• Happy One Year anniversary to Mo Money Mo Houses!

• If you’re making decent side income or are self employed, check out Modest Money’s tips on taxes for the self employed.

• Do you associate volatility with risk? Freedom Thirty Five helps to differentiate the two and reminds us that they are very different things.

• CF and I hate wasting food – Pauline from RF Independence guest posted with Add Vodka about The Zero Food Waste Challenge!

• Congrats to Club Thrifty for making it through the first six months of their blog and to Holly, who was recently hired as a staff writer at Get Rich Slowly!

• When we plan to go somewhere, CF and I always do a lot of research and book well in advance. One Smart Dollar looks at the advantages of booking your holidays early.

• My Alternate Life talks about how creating categories for everything helps her stick to her budget.

• Sheryl from Canadian Dream discusses To Gift, or Not to Gift? Gifts should be freely given in our opinion.

• If you live in an area where at least one car is a necessity, follow Work Save Live’s 5 Steps to Buying a Car.

• If you have stuff piling up in your basement or storage closet, consider getting together with some friends and trying Canadian Budget Binder’s version of a Christmas Gift Exchange!

• Coming from someone in the Healthcare field, Eyes on the Dollar looks at the possible effects of the Fiscal Cliff on Healthcare.

 

Thanks to everyone who included us this week – as alwasy, if I missed you, send me a note and I’ll update this list.

• One Smart Dollar: Personal Finance Week in Review for December 8 – Snow Finally Arrives

• Festival of Frugality: Festival of Frugality #366

• Debt Round Up: Free Shipping Day is December 17

• Debt Round Up: Weekly Personal Finance Blog Round Up

• Freedom Thirty Five Blog: Weekend Business and Blog Round Up – December 14

• Work Save Live: Personal Finance Week in Review#42

• Modest Money: Mid December 2012 Favorite Blog Posts

• Fix em Up and Rent em Out: Follow Schwarzenegger’s advice to Put Fuel on the Fire

• Canadian Budget Binder: Mr. CBB’s Weekly Blog Post Picks Dec 14, 2012 – Tek Who?

4 Responses to “Updates: December 9 – 15”

1. Derek @ Freeat33 says:

   December 15, 2012 at 11:20 am

   Glad you liked the Guest Post I wrote at CBB ( The Celebrate Like Scrooge Christmas Gift Exchange ).
   Thanks for referring, and thanks to Canadian Budget Binder for the guest post opportunity.

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2. Pauline says:

   December 15, 2012 at 3:22 pm

   Impressive toy pile! Thanks for including my post on Add Vodka!

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3. Canadian Budget Binder says:

   December 16, 2012 at 8:13 am

   Cheers mate for the mention and enjoy your Holidays!! Mr.CBB

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4. Liquid says:

   December 16, 2012 at 3:33 pm

   Must have been a lot of presents there by the end of the day. I didn’t know before but apparently people can also give stocks of public companies directly to charities, transferred through a brokerage, without selling the stocks first and getting taxed on. Thanks for the mention :0)

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