Over the last few days, I’ve stumbled upon a few blog posts that touch on the New Year’s resolutions I posted. All three are from blogs I highly recommend, so please check them out!
- 9 Methods for Mastering Your Money in 2009 from Get Rich Slowly. A great collection of tips, methods and tools for you to use to get your finances in order this year.
- Do Children Really Cause Financial Burdens? from The Simple Dollar. This post focuses on a common misconception that having kids is extremely expensive. Trent says yes, the outlays are numerous and costly, but when you factor in tax deductions, credits, and how children change the way we spend money (less entertainment, luxury, and frivolous expenditures, etc), the cost per child (over 18 years) goes from the original estimate of $200k to around $52k using some quick math. Even if you double that figure, it still comes out to about $5700 per year, compared to the original $11k. Not nearly as bad as many experts will lead you to believe.
- Instead of New Year’s Resolutions, Set More Manageable Goals from Parent Hacks. The gist of this post is using an alternative mindset when thinking about our resolutions through setting daily, weekly and monthly goals each month. Doing this makes these tasks and projects more manageable and actionable as they tend to be easier to wrap your head around than the usual big picture goals we tend to set on January 1st. I like the idea!