See Jane Get Rich

Jane the Way-Below-Average-Blogger:  There is so much going on in my life and I only get to share with you 5% or 10% of it. And sometimes I think, hey, I should like share way lot more stuff, ya know?  But, personal things aren’t “personal financy” enough and are just so super b-o-r-i-n-g!

Ideal the  See Jane Get Rich Blog Reader: I think a lot of bloggers share personal stuff like the daily growth of their chia pet, conversations with friends other people can’t see and hobbies like people watching.  I find these quite interesting.  You could join them, you know. 

Jane:  Ha, ha, ha haaaaa!  Oh, you were serious?  Um, ok.  I dunno ‘bout that.  Well, here is something “personal financy.”  I gave my first dinner party where I cooked and people actually liked what I made.  I was so insanely nervous about that dinner party. 

Ideal: You had a dinner party and you didn’t invite me! 

Jane:  Really, Ideal.  Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.  You are really a figment of my imagination. 

Ideal:  I am as real as they come!  Anyway, what did you make?

Jane:  You should’ve been there.  I made Salmon with fresh dill, lime juice and olive oil with a side of asparagus wrapped in prosciutto.  I made a fantabulous spinach salad with crumbled goat cheese, dried cranberries, toasted slivered almonds and walnuts, dried cranberry and fresh grapes.  Served it with white wine and had assorted sweets for dessert. 

Ideal: That sounds like one tasty meal.   

Jane: Now, I am on this big cooking spree because I fancy myself a mini-Martha Stewart.  Um, without all the insider trading.  White collar crime is so 2002. 

Ideal: Well, this could be a really nice post about your first dinner party and how you did it the frugal way.  How much did you spend?

Jane:  I don’t want to share that!  And no, I am not going to post about this!  I overspent because I had no clue about the portions.  I over-shopped.  I got too much wine, too much goat cheese…well, too much of everything.  I am so not gonna tell them that I spent like $50 on a dinner for 4 people!  This is one post that is so not going to happen.  They’ll never know. 

Now, Ideal, it has been fun but I have more important things to do like measuring the hourly growth of my chia pet and watching unsuspecting people who walk by my window.

Women Personal Finance Bloggers Rock!

I have repeatedly turned to WiseBread’s List of Personal Finance Blogs by Women to find new personal finance blogs to read.  But, occassionally I find that some of the links are inactive or broken. 

This is understandable since the list was posted on August 5, 2008. While I wait for WiseBread to come out with an up to date list of personal finance bogs by women I am providing the list of blogs with links that work and that are active. The blog is considered active if there was a post for the month of October.  I am leaving out non-personal blogs such as blogs hosted by newspapers and other businesses.  Ggoing through all the blogs took quite a lot of time but I had fun reading about personal finance from various perspectives.  Please let me know if there is a blog out there on WiseBread’s list that’s not here but may have moved to its own domain name or changed its name and such other things.  Are there any other blogs that should be on this list?   

Also, I am trying to get a list of new personal finance blogs started by women in 2009.  It can be very hard starting and keeping any blog going and I want to be sure to find and support other new personal finance blogs by women.  So, share away!

• Almost Frugal

• The Baglady
• Barbara Stanny
• Beach Girl’s Budget Blog
• Being Frugal
• Being Money Smart
• Blogging Away Debt
• BlogHer
• Brunette on a Budget
• Brown Eyed Girl and Money
• BostonGals

• Chief Family Officer
• Counting My Pennis

• Debt Marathon
• Digerati Life
• Distilled Rose
• Debt Hater
• Don’t Mess with Taxes
• Dog Ate my Finances

  
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Think I'll just keep my money in here

• Magazine subscriptions

Why pay for magazine subscriptions when you can just go to the library and read a magazine?   

• TV/Cable

I get all my entertainment from the internet and I don’t waste as much time by getting hooked on rather predictable t.v. shows with stereotypical characters filled with advertisements that make me want things I don’t need.  

• Manicures/Pedicures

I have to say I have been very tempted to get a manicure but shelling out $15-$30 for my nails would be such a huge waste of money.  I am not paying for it.   Read the rest of this entry »

Notice at 1:39 it says one of the ways they are saving money is by “making reusable toilet paper out of flannel clothes.” I don’t think I can ever be this frugal.