Saturday Link Love: Back to School Edition
It’s that time of year again – school buses are clogging the roadways and students everywhere are issuing collective groans as they head back to school.
Here’s hoping you didn’t have to spend too much money on school supplies! Did you find any good deals? Tell us about them!
In honor of back-to-school days, I hand-picked the best related posts for you this week – with a few bonuses!
School Daze:
- Money Smart Life presents The College Student Money Guide – Financial Tips for Student Success. Ten articles that help college students make the grade.
- Blunt Money Reminds us that our kids don’t really need every shiny new widget made by Apple or Dell in An Empty Wallet Isn’t Required for Back to School..
- Money Ning gives us 9 Ways to Go Back to School for Less – and there are some excellent tips on this list!
- Canadian Capitalist has a good article on How to Save Money on Textbooks.
- Clever Dude teaches us how to Manage Work, Life and School. I found some tips I could really use.
Growing Your Wealth In Tough Times:
Gas prices are up, the housing market has bottomed out…we all know the state of things. Here are some articles that I loved because they will help you grow your wealth no matter what the economy is doing!
- Bible Money Matters wonders if you are building your credit, or just going into debt? Using credit wisely can be tough. There are definitely right, and wrong ways to try to build your credit. We have an upcoming series on this very topic.
Click here to subscribe so you don’t miss it! - The Dough Roller reminds us Not to Confuse Popular with Profitable – Man is this ever good advice. It’s hard to make money off of your investments when you’re going right along with the crowd.
- Get Rich Slowly talks about Cleaning House: When Little Messes Become Big Problems. This is a revealing article on the poison of clutter. Buying too much “stuff” not only tarnishes our bottom line, but it steals our peace as well. If you have a clutter problem (and admittedly, I do too!) check out FlyLady.net as well!
- The Simple Dollar reveals how he faces his financial fears. In life, as well as in finance very few things hold us back as much as our own fear of the future.
- Smart Spending reminds us that our charitable contributions matter now more than ever. I’ll admit to tithing less ever since grocery and gas prices skyrocketed….This post is a wonderful take on the times. If things are tough on you and me, then they’re tough on everyone. With more and more people giving less and less our dollars count for more than ever.
Carnivals, Festivals and Celebrations:
Thanks to these carnivals for featuring our articles this week:
- Personal Finance Weekly Roundup #7 at Financial Ramblings
- 152nd Carnival of Debt Reduction at Living Almost Large
- Carnival of Money Stories #72: Back To School Edition at Broke Grad Student
Wishing you a job you love, a 21% return on your portfolio, and an early retirement. 🙂 Have a great weekend!
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