My Family’s Money

Its been nice getting back into the posting and reading swing and I’ve dipped my finger into more than one pie this week. Here are some of the things I’ve found interesting around the financial web sites on the internet:

An article over at the Financial Blogger got me thinking about how I fall into the trap of working harder. When I think about having a child and the costs associated with that it almost always ends up with me thinking that I will need to get second job somewhere. That is definitely not ideal since I know that you can become quite sleep deprived with a newborn and working two jobs would probably pretty near wipe me off the face of earth. I am sure people have done it before, but I think working smarter will probably be the better choice for me.

Madame X over at My Open Wallet asked the question, “What if You Contribute Too Much to a Roth IRA?” Her post was pretty informative and let me know about Publication 590. I don’t expect to be close to not being able to contribute to a Roth IRA any time soon, but its good to store away in happy unicorn land for future reference and to feed the unicorns.

Nick over at Punny Money wrote about a sweet contest for people who can make jokes about stupid things like taxes. I think I have about three jokes for my video, but no matter how slow I say them they just can’t seem to fill the three minute time limit. Stupid quick jokes making me miss out on winning a million pennies.

Budgets give me the warm tingly sensations all over my body, but moneychallenge seems to think that some people think ‘budget’ is a dirty word. Abudgetloversayswhaaa? It’s true though, some people just don’t know what budgets are for. If that is you, do one of them clickity-clickities on the linkity-linkity and practice Jedi mind tricks. This is not the cup of Starbucks you are looking for …