MoneyReasons Weekly Review 2010, Jan 10

Money Reasons Weekly Review

My Favorite Top 3 External PF Blogger Posts For This Week:

• Well-Heeled Blog - has a great article on lifestyle changing goals called “Small Steps Will Lead to Lifestyle Change“.   I like Well-Heeled’s approach towards her goals!
• Financial Samurai’s - The Samurai Fund – All Hands On Deck! - This is a great experiment that the Financial Samurai is running to try to beat the S&P 500!  His idea was to create such a Fund based off of the names of Financial Blogs that submitted them.  I’m part of the list of 17 as MON (Monsanto, which creates engineered seeds).  Best of luck Sam!
• Mrs Micah – Talks about her Biggest Financial Foul up, Incredible story of Mrs. Micah and her husbands battle against debt of over $100,000.  That’s a lot of debt, but at least she’s very young (you wouldn’t guess that based off of her writing though!)

My Favorite Post From MoneyReasons This Week:

• My favorite post this week is Perfect Snow, it didn’t start out that way, initially writing it I didn’t think it would amount to much, but after I finished it, it invoked such great memories.  It’s has more personal value than monetary worth.  I do think everybody (in the snow belt, anyway), should take advantage of perfect snow every now and then (by skiing, sledding, walking at night, etc)…

 

Goals Status Update:

Off to a slow start on Goal #1: 2010 Resolution #1, Losing Weight While Saving Money, I only lost 1 pound this week, time to redouble my efforts next week.

	Date		Weight/lbs.		Loss/Gain
	01/02/10		235		0
	01/09/10		234		1
	01/16/10
	01/23/10
	01/30/10
	Total Loss for the Month			:	1

As for my other goals (#2,#3)

• 2010 Resolution #2, Stop Being a Pack Rat: I have started throwing some of my junk away.
• 2010 Resolution #3, Maximizing Who I Am: I did a great job talking to more people this week. 

This week was busy socially, I had to shovel the drive twice and the kids has a snow day (they went sledding and had hot chocolate afterwards), and we went to 2 birthdays this week.

Not a bad start to the first business week of the new year!