Money Weekly Cache 2010, August 9

Weekly Thoughts:

Next week, I’m going on vacation, but not until Thursday!  We decided to go to Hilton Head Island again, because it’s a great family atmosphere!

In this “Weekly Cache episode”, I decided to eliminate my “closing thoughts” area.

My Favorite Reads of the Week:

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff:  Fit in a Fun Friday – Drive-In Movie Theaters  – this is such a great experience!  Everybody should try to go to a drive-in theater at least once in their lifetime!  It’s more fun that you would imagine!!!

Free Money Finance:  Interesting Retirement Stats - FMF asked how his readers are doing compared to the stats of average retirement balances.  The comments left by his readers are fascinating too!

Get Rich Slowly:  Do Credit Cards Take from the Poor and Give to the Rich?  – This is a great example how numbers and statistics can be warped and twisted into something silly.  Currently, and when I made less money (near poor) in the past, I still used credit cards, taking advantage of the reward cards and paying off the balance each month in full.

Well-Heeled Blog:  The New Abnormal: Pinching Pennies To Justify Splurges - The spending choices that people make always amaze me.  This is a great article of such oddities!

My Favorite Post from Money Reasons:

In my post: The Reasons I Like Money Over Gift Cards I talk about how I had a card from Amazon that expired on me in a year’s time and became worthless.  This bad experience convinced me that I like cash over gift cards.  That said, I do have some gift cards in my wallet as I type!