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Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:14:04 +0000

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By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:35:08 +0000

Great article. Please visit my blog as I recently did a Soapbox Sunday article on a similar topic.

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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:26:47 +0000

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:14:07 +0000

Yes, it is strange how no one talks about these things. That’s also why I started my blog and why I love to read other PF blogs. Thanks for a great post!

By: Slinky

Slinky — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:57:00 +0000

I’m not sure if it is because I have really close friends or because we’re all just fresh out of college, but we’re a bit more open than many people seem to be. I know what a couple of friend’s make, a few know what I make, people know how much my car cost me. I know two of my friend’s parents paid their down payments and financed their houses for them. I know how much another couple have saved for their new house so far (by living at home with parents!). I also know something about half my family’s finances because I help a couple do their taxes.

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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:36:33 +0000

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By: AnitraClark

AnitraClark — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:28:51 +0000

where I am from status is everything, and its a shame to once you find out peoples REAL situation.

I stopped looking at what people had because once you find out the grass isn’t greener on the otherside you will stop trying to live like the jones

great blog
http://anitraclark.net

By: Livingalmostlarge

Livingalmostlarge — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:56:10 +0000

Wow I can’t believe people don’t love homemade gifts. I love them. I am lazy and admit it so I usually send the same unimaginative gift to everyone. Usually food, but living far away at least justifies it.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:49:25 +0000

I’d love to be honest about how my husband and I are doing – not rich by any stretch of the imagination, have tight months, but we’re in decent shape – but have had too many bad reactions to really let that guard down again.

He has a “real” job in the private sector, I work piecemeal from home as an artist. We’re both nerds who really enjoy figuring out and building our toys ourselves – so, we DO have a big screen tv, our camping setup is lavish beyond reason, and our home is full of tools we use (luckily, playtime for us earns us both cash). But often we’re caught in the web of “well, if you have x to waste on y… why shouldn’t you give us z?” from folks in our life who neither work nor want to. Our focus is a bit weird to many (I don’t see it a waste to buy books instead of going to a bar, he’d rather get a new welder then hit the strip clubs) but as long as our bills are paid and we’re able to save, that should be enough.

Faced with too many hands stretched out, too many cases of nasty “you have it, so give us some”, and too many folks who think we must be rolling in it (nope, just know how to handle what we DO have.) so… we’re pretty quiet anymore.

I just couldn’t do another Christmas where a sweater I made that took 100 hours is thrown on the ground and whined “What, no money… or at least a REAL gift!”

By: JB

JB — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:02:19 +0000

The society Jen grew up in sounds great. It sounds like Personal Finance community. We should all analyze each other’s spending and investing so we can all help each other make better and smarter choices. If the US was like that we wouldn’t have nearly the amount of debt.