Saturday Round-up

Posted on July 12, 2008
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It’s a slow Saturday at the shop and I am catching up on some of my reading. I thought I would share a few of the posts I have enjoyed.

Flexo at Consumerism Commentary has a post on Four Day Work Weeks. It’s an interesting concept and the comments are varied on it. This is something that I have been thinking about implementing at the grooming shop. Gas has gone up enough that it doesn’t pay me to come to work if I don’t have several dogs to groom and making my days a little longer would not be a problem. My biggest challenge is with scheduling the customers. I have to work around their schedules and that makes any consistent days off a problem. I have worked four ten hour days before and love the schedule.

Squawkfox has a neat article on 10 FREE ways to get into fitness this summer. Gardening is my pick but then I like the fact that I get to eat the rewards too so I need the exercise.

Being Frugal is writing about Hypermilling. Ok, this was a new one on me. I had never heard the term but apparently it means the practice of extreme maximizing of your gas mileage including putting your car in neutral when possible. I read up a little bit about hypermilling at EcoTrekker’s Ultimate Guide to Hypermilling.

I don’t usually link to a round up but Gather Little By Little has some great posts listed in his Friday gathering this week. Check them all out but here are my favorites.

The Wisdom Journal 10 Commitments to make for Financial Success.
Frugal Dad Identifying the Why in becoming debt free.
One Caveman’s Financial Journey writes Credit Cards are Evil

Mrs. Micah has a great post on Sleeping without Air Conditioning. I have actually found that putting a window fan blowing out does as much to cool the room as the A/C. With temperatures where I live falling into the mid 60s at night, the outside air is cool and comfortable but humid and I don’t want it blowing on me all night.

As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac troubles, Burnham’s Beat has a great explanation to what Fannie and Freddie actually do in Fannie Mae’s Golden Goose: A Lesson In Moral Hazard

Check out Bible Money Matters post on How to Make A Million Dollars. It’s an oldie but goodie!

That’s all I have time for today but look for more next week!

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Comments

3 Responses to “Saturday Round-up”

Squawkfox (13 comments.) on July 12th, 2008 11:38 am

Hey C! Haven’t seen you on Twitterville as of late! Thank you so much for the mention! I was thinking of you when I wrote about gardening!
That One Caveman (1 comments.) on July 12th, 2008 1:02 pm

Thanks for the mention. By the way, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s huge black bar covering the top 500px of your page and content that pops up after the page has loaded. You may have a bug somewhere…
Peter (3 comments.) on July 13th, 2008 2:48 pm

thanks for the link!

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but there is something funky happening on your pages, - i can’t get them to come up all the way!