Yard Sale Season / Weekly Roundup

The temperature has jumped to the upper 60’s in Southern Illinois.  The birds are chirping, the peepers are peeping and I spotted a snake in my yard.   What does it all mean?  Yard Sale Season! Don’t get me wrong.  I don’t need a bunch of someone else’s stuff.  It is just that I like getting out with my wife and daughter to stir about and see what kinds of stuff is out there.  For me, it is more like a social outing…joking with my wife and daughter and gabbing with other regular shoppers.  I seldom buy anything, but you never know.   Last year my wife found an authentic autographed Johnny Cash album for $1.  Like I said, you never know!

I wonder: do you have yard sales where you live or are they more of a midwest affair?  Hmmm.  Let me know.

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I have been honored again this week to have a post on Christian PF site.   If you have you ever had Boomerang Kids or been one yourself, check out Boomerang Kids – How to Handle Them Returning to the Nest.

Recommended Reading

I have been included as recommended reading on Cash Money Life and Consumer Boomer.  Thanks!

Thanks also to Craig Ford at Money Help for Christians for his Christian Blog Roundup, and for including me.

On to the roundup!

Some posts that will stir your gray matter:

• Kevin at Out of Your Rut asks Should You Use Retirement Savings to Pay Off Debt.  Never!  Right?  Read what Kevin has to say… it might make you reconsider.
• Paul at Provident Planning gives his answer for What Caused the Economic Downturn?  How Do We Rebound? Paul digs beneath the surface and gives some great thoughts that your normal economist might not have considered.
• Quick: what interest rate would you pay for a Quick Cash Payday Loan?  Don’t know?  Check Avoid Quick Cash PayDay Cash Loans at Good Financial Cents.  You will  be amazed.
• Is 75 the new retirement age?   And do you really know who you are?  Read Freedom 75? at TFB for some great thoughts.
• Where do you keep your emergency fund (you DO have one, don’t you?) Read Emergency Fund Savings: Money Market Or Savings Account? posted at Cash Money Life
• Are we moving to a cashless society?  If so, what does it mean to us…especially Christians?  Read The End Times and a Cashless Society at Free Money Finance for some great dialog.  Make sure to read the comments…you may want to leave one yourself.
• Wow.  Talk about mixing oil and water…check out some Planned Parenthood thoughts on Girl Scouts in Girl Scouts of America:  ”Healthy, Happy and Hot” posted at  In Him We Live and Move and Have Our Being. Warning: take a deep breath before reading.
• Are you addicted…to email…Facebook… Twitter?  Even if you aren’t, a good limerick will still cheer your day.  Read Feed Needs at  Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.   In fact, take time to read Mad Kane anytime you need a chuckle or a challenge.
• Junior Boomer over at Consumer Boomers offers two good articles on two good topics.  First, he asks, “Should you pay your tax bill with a credit card” and then addresses all the different limits of the Roth IRA.  Good stuff!

How about some Carnivals?

Take time to click these Carnivals for some choice posts (and mine too )

• The Carnival of Money Stories XLV – The Sex, Lies and Videotape Edition hosted by the one and only Len Penzo
• Christian Carnival CCCXIX hosted by The Thinking Christian
• Baby Boomers Blog Carnival Thirty-first Edition hosted by Baby Boomers US
• Carnival of Financial Planning hosted by The Skilled Investor