Weekly Roundup - Mother’s Day Edition
May 11, 2008 in Personal Finance
Hello Everyone, and Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you have the opportunity to spend some time with your Mother and loved ones today. Unfortunately, my wife and I live a long distance from our respective Mothers now, so we will have to make do with a phone call. They did receive the cards and flowers we sent, so at least we were able to send a little something to them.
Blogger meet up. This week I had the privilege to meet a personal finance blogger in person. Ron, from The Wisdom Journal, happened to be in my area and we met up for a lunch at City BBQ, a local BBQ joint. Ron is a true professional and it is easy to see why his blog is called The Wisdom Journal. We sat outside on a picnic table situated under an overhang and talked for about 3 hours. It’s amazing how much you can learn in one sitting!
Ron is a great guy, and hopefully I will have the opportunity to meet up with him again sometime.
If you aren’t familiar with his blog, I highly recommend visiting and subscribing. Here are a few of my favorite articles from his site:
- 12 Things I Learned By 42 That I Wish I Knew At 22
- 5 Massive Money Mistakes I’ve Made
- An Open Letter From Employees To Bosses
- Ron is also writing a book, and you can help!
Mother’s Day - A Day of Appreciation
In honor of Mother’s Day, I thought I would share a bunch of articles about Mother’s Day. I hope you enjoy them.
- Mrs Micah says “Any day is Mother’s Day.” I agree.
- Lazy Man tells us to celebrate Mother’s Day the way she would want you to.
- PaidTwice talks about Marketing and Mother’s Day.
- WiseBread shares some insight to the inventor of Mother’s Day and how she felt about the mass marketing it brought on.
- Pinyo shares a couple Mother’s Day gift ideas.
- Quest for Four Pillars has a couple frugal Mother’s Day gift ideas.
- Frugal Dad recommends sending flowers as a Mother’s Day gift.
- Get Rich Slowly shares some Consumer Reports articles regarding common Mother’s Day gifts.
- My Super-Charged Life shares Valuable Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day.
- Don’t Mess With Taxes has a few Mother’s Day gift ideas.
- Single Guy shares a poem in honor of Mother’s Day.
- If you forgot to buy a Mother’s Day gift, Madison is giving away a $50 Amazon gift card…
I guess it might be too late to use many of these gift ideas this year, but there are a few ideas that you may be able to use next year!
This week’s carnivals:
- The May Edition of the Carnival of Financial Goals was held at Debt-FREE Revolution.
- The Carnival of P2P Lending #9 - Cinco de Mayo Edition, was hosted at Lazy Man and Money. My article, The Future of Lending Club - Will they Survive and Thrive, or Crash and Burn?, was included.
- The Festival of Frugality #124 was held at Frugal for Life. My article, Save Money with Refurbished Electronics, was included.
- The Carnival of Personal Finance - Bloggers on Surviving the Squeeze was held at US News and World Report. My article, How to Dress For an Interview, was included.
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4 Comment(s)
By Ron@TheWisdomJournal on May 11, 2008 | Reply
Hey Patrick, thanks for highlighting my blog and some of my articles! I truly enjoyed meeting you and hope we can get together again soon.
I appreciate all the help you’ve given me and the tips and the plugins and the advice and the encouragement etc, etc, etc. You have a great blog and a great perspective on the world of personal finance as well as business in general.
If I can ever help you out in any way, I’d consider it an honor.
By Mrs. Micah on May 11, 2008 | Reply
Glad you two got to meet up.
I’m hoping to meet all my PF friends by the end of the end of the year…though that’s not quite a realistic goal.
Thanks for including my Mother’s day piece.
By Jeff@MySuperChargedLife on May 11, 2008 | Reply
It is good to see a lot of great articles about what to do for mom on Mother’s Day. Thanks for including mine!
By Four Pillars on May 11, 2008 | Reply
Thanks a lot for the link Patrick.
Mike