Sunday Challenge Reporting (and link love)
May 16, 2010
Sound off!
Because my freelance income is irregular, I didn’t set increments of earning but I AM working like gangbusters to finish up the other half of a major project early. Say, two weeks early just so I can log the income for this challenge. (Not cheating!) While it means my eyeballs may fall out, that means I’ll have more time for other things like working on my Carnival of Personal Finance theme, or dogsitting toward the end of the month.
You know what would be really cool? If Adsense came through this month too. It won’t ’cause I’m still a ways away from the payout threshold, but it’d be a cool confluence of events if it did.
How did you do?
Check them out ….
Little Miss Moneybags‘ Combined Finances post contained a gem that I’d never really considered before when mentally debating the joint versus separate finances issue (bold emphasis mine):
Peanut is paying off his student loans aggressively and as soon as I’m out of the grace period, I will too. By pooling our money and aggressively paying all of our loans in order of highest interest rate, we will ultimately pay less interest. We may only save a few hundred bucks, but hey, that’s something. Also, I’m benefiting from the education those loans got him. And he’s benefiting from the education my loans got me.
Here’s my update. Not too successful this week though.
http://runworkandsave.blogspot.com/2010/05/week-1-5k5k-update.html
Here is my update:
http://codyandcandace.blogspot.com/2010/05/weekly-savings-statement.html
Thanks for the link! It took me a while to figure out why it makes sense for us to help pay off the loans as a group–but the truth is, his education does benefit me and vice versa. It seems awfully petty to not help pay it off.
Thanks so much for the link hun!!!
@Ciawy, Cody and Candace: I’ve included you in this week’s update!
@LMM: Of course! I love that thought – it totally makes sense but seldom is it thought of.
@Rina: Thanks for the recipes! 🙂