My Family’s Money

The past few weeks have been slow blogging for me as well as a slow reading – so this weeks edition of what I’ve been reading doesn’t have that many links to it. So here we go:

Deamiter over at handling finances posted and good article on why I (meaning me, Steward) am so stupid. Deamiter didn’t have it out for me per se, but he sure nailed me on just about every failure that he mentions in this article about why our brains fail us. I am poor at evaluating probability and risk (just look at my Centsports bets), I live for the now, and I am always jumping to things. That is why I need to build spreadsheets, numbers can’t lie to me.

Shana over at Smart Easy Money wrote about things she wished she learned earlier. It is some good advice – and I’m not the only one that thinks so. The article got featured on MSN’s Money Blog but I found it first. So ha! to you MSN’s Money Blog with all your traffic generating potential for new and small blogs. Shana won’t get any traffic from me but at least I’m … we’ll maybe I’m not as good as you MSN’s Money Blog but thats okay. Read Shana’s article and learn why you should set up a family budget, answer your emails, be a little nosy, and get on Facebook.

And finally, I liked this post over My Two Dollars because it reminded me of Fight Club. My Two Dollars writes,

You are not your stuff. You are not what you own, how much money you have, the size of your house, your flat screen TV or your new car.

I’m not sure why, but it vividly brought back memories of people

stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. [They were wearing] leather clothes that will last [them] the rest of [their] lives. [Others were climbing] the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower … And when [I looked around, I saw] tiny figures pounding corn, [and] laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.

Just remember,

You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your … khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

Carnivals and News:
Thanks to The Financial Blogger who hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance that included my article about calculating a paycheck for a new pay schedule. This article actually has been getting me some search engine traffic thanks to people like The Digerati Life and Monroe on a Budget who linked to the article as well. Can you say awesome?

More Quotes Inspired By Bloggers:
The Great Money Challenge reminded me about this quote with her post on courage. If you are the first to guess what it’s from I’ll write you a haiku or a really, really short story about you. Here it is:

Girl: Your majesty, if you were king, you wouldn’t be afraid of anything?
King: Not nobody. Not nohow.
Squeaky Man: Not even a rhinoceros?
King: Imposerous!
Girl: How about a hippopotamus?
King: Why, I’d thrash him from top to bottomus.
Girl: Supposing you met an elephant?
King: I’d knot him up in cellophant.
Dork: What if it were a brontosaurus?
King: I’d show him who was king of the forest.