Here we are, the last weekend of Summer. I have to do a 17 mile run, a fantasy football draft, some last minute school shopping, and our neighbor is having a neighborhood party. We’ll be throwing back a few cold ones, grilling some food, and putting together the 200 foot slip-n-slide down the hill of the park that extends from our backyards. It’ll be a busy but fun weekend, and except for the school shopping part. relatively tame on the checkbook. Then, next week it’s back to school for the kids, and back to her job at the school district for my wife. Order and routine will return to the Pizel household. While I’m sad to see summer wind down, I’m very excited for order and routine.
If that’s not enough to make you fist pump, here’s my top six personal finance articles of the week!
Posts That Make Me Fist Pump
- Enough With The Emergency Fund, Sort Of from Boomer And Echo
- One Small Change Can Save Big Money On Your Vacations from Money Manifesto
- Tracking Expenses Isn’t Easy from Lisa vs. the Loans
- Labor Day Savings: Throw a Budget BBQ from The Broke And Beautiful Life
- Why It’s OK To Make Money Mistakes from Young Adult Money
- 4 Signs You’re Letting Credit Run Your Life from Celebrating Financial Freedom
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Other fist-pumping posts I wrote, or appeared in this week from around the personal finance blogosphere:
- How to Redecorate Your Teen’s Room for Under $100 at Money Ning
- How to Make a Good Meal Great in the CareOne Community
TeamEOD Was Recently Included In The Following Carnivals
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Finance Carnival For Young Adults hosted by Smart Budgeting
Carnival of Money hosted by Carnival of Money
Woohoo, sounds like a packed weekend. I say do the run first thing so you can party the rest of the weekend. I still wanna try that slip and slide! Thanks for the link love!
I did my run first thing Saturday morning….then it was all fun from there – the slip and slide was AWESOME!
I love the slip and slide! No wonder you didn’t want to give up your home as you paid off debt. You have a Great location AND Great neighbors!
I’m surprised how late school starts up there. My grandkids have been in school nearly a month!
Have an EPIC weekend!
Exactly, Sassy Mamaw……love our neighborhood! I think we could start school a little earlier here…kids get bored pretty quick in summer. 🙂 Thanks for your comment!
Have a great weekend!
Thanks, Brian – I certainly did – hope you did as well!
I think slip n slides are making a huge comeback. I remember them from the 70’s! Hope you have a fabulous weekend!
I had a tiny one when I was little……the one we build is 200 feet long and 8 feet wide. You can do spins and tumbleweeds and all kinds of things on the way down. Fun for kids of all ages. 🙂
Have fun with the slip and slide. This 1000-foot water slip and slide made its way through the streets of major Canadian cities this summer. Unreal! – http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/07/1000-foot-long-water-slip-slide-coming-vancouver/
Thanks for highlighting Sandi’s emergency fund article here. It made me fist-pump, too.
Enjoy your weekend!
Wow, Robb…that slip and slide is AWESOME. If that came to my city, I’d be all over it!! Thanks for dropping in!
Whoa, sounds like a super busy weekend for you and the fam! Would love to see how that slip and slide turns out, sounds like fun! Thanks for including my link, have a great one Travis!
I’ll post a picture of it next week. 😉 It was a busy but fun weekend!
Have an awesome weekend, my friend!! We are remodeling the recently flooded laundry room. Oh, joy.
That doesn’t sound like fun at all, Laurie….sorry the rain caused some flooding, and I hope you dry out soon!
I love, love, love slip-n-slides! Have a great weekend, it sounds like it will be a lot of fun 🙂
It was unbelievably fun, Michelle……I’ll post a pic of the slip n slide in this week’s roundup. 🙂
I did not catch all of these. Thanks for posting!
That’s why we fistpump on Friday, Michelle – great to hear from you!
Thanks for including Cat’s post! I hope you are having a great weekend. Home projects/landscaping work are ruining my Labor Day!
That’s why they call it Labor Day, right, DC? LOL. Hope it turned out well!