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Sunday Morning Link Love: Game Edition

Welcome to another week of Sunday Morning Link Love. This is where I highlight my favorite posts of the week from the M-Network and the personal finance blogosphere in general. I don’t read everything out there every week but I try! This week seems to be the Monopoly week of personal finance – I read several good articles involving the game Monopoly. I used to love to play Monopoly and I look forward to playing it with my kids someday. But it seems unless I save my old beat up edition, I may be playing a different game than I am accustomed to….

• The Good Life on a Budget: Is This Really What We Want to Teach Children? Monopoly enters the digital age! I have been thinking about this for days now and I still don’t know how I feel. Swipe! Swipe! But is it all that different from when I was a kid and would make my own checks and expect people to accept them as payment? (No one really did though, lol).

• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity: 8 Personal Finance Lessons I Learned From Monopoly. I loved this! Passive Income is the Key to wealth…. must figure that out. Whoever said blogging was passive income must never update their blog.

And here are some other great articles from the M-Network:

• Gather Little By Little: Gazelle Intensity – Not For Me Thanks! First off, love the picture of the gazelles. Second, I agree. It is all about balance. As I said yesterday, my kids didn’t get us into debt. We did. And we are working very hard to get out and I deny myself all sorts of things but… I draw the line at denying my kids everything. This is not to say I spoil them, but I do spend money on experiences for them.

• Being Frugal: The Perils of 90 days Same as Cash. But I loooooove 90 days same as cash… I loooove interest free loans… okay, well, I can just keep telling myself I’m one of the exceptions to the rule? I’m not buying anything lately anyway lol.

• DebtFREE-Revolution: Student Loans and Professional Degrees. What’s your stance on student loans? Are they necessary? Without mine (undergraduate ones, which Ana doesn’t agree with ) I wouldn’t have been able to go to college, at least not directly after high school. So were they worth it?

• Moolanomy: The First Million is the Hardest. Excellent illustration of the wonders of compound interest. I love compound interest….

• Saving Explained: 5 Steps for Coming to Terms with your Financial Situation. A good read for anyone who is trying to start the road to getting out of debt.

And beyond! :

• Brip Blap: Saving Too Much. There is frugal, and there is going too far. Here’s places that Brip Blap spends instead of saves.

• Blunt Money: Inflation and the Dollar. I’ve noticed the grocery prices going up too. Ugh.

• Cheap Healthy Good: Treating Food-Borne Affluenza: 15 Tips to Curb Your Foodie Leanings. I won’t claim to be a “foodie” but I like good food. And I need help saving money. Here are some ideas how.

• The Digerati Life: Want More Real Estate? A Radical way to Increase Your Yard Space. We actually don’t have a fence between our neighbor’s yard and ours and we are very happy that way. Hopefully they are too….

• Wise Bread: Huge Tax-Free Investment Returns from author Phillip Brewer. Simply the best straightforward case for buying in bulk I have ever read. Forget about the stock market, I’m stocking up on tomato paste!

And a new little feature I’m trying out, The PaidTwice Rewind. Here’s a post from the first few weeks of the blog relevant to one of the discussions above, part of my own sad student loan story: Should’ve Known Better.

Was there a great article out there I should have mentioned? Is there an excellent personal finance blog I don’t seem to be reading? Drop me a line via my contact form and I’ll be sure to check it out! Have a great week!