Friday Linkfest: Camping Edition

Before I get to the post, I need to give a shout out to my wonderful husband, Jim.  It’s his birthday today. Happy Birthday, honey! 

We’re taking off this afternoon for the Oregon coast to do some camping and get away from the busyness of buying a house, Walmart adventures, and life in general.  We’ll be without internet, so if something wacky happens here at Being Frugal, I’ll have to fix it when I get back!

Speaking of buying a house, it looks like the process might be coming to an end for us.  I had no idea buying a home would be this stressful.  It’s hard not knowing what the underwriter is going to say about your loan application!

But the mortgage broker is expecting the closing documents to come in today.  The plan is to sign on Monday, send the docs for review on Tuesday, and record the deed on Wednesday.  Then the owners have until Saturday afternoon to move out.  Barring any delays, we should have the keys to our new home by Sunday afternoon.  Thank goodness!  Then the renovating craziness begins.

And it looks like we’ll be homeless for about a week in September…the same week school starts.  That could get interesting too.  I don’t think we’ll be able to get the repairs completely done by September first.  Fortunately my dad, who lives really close to our new house, is going out of town for a month, so we can stay at his house.

So yes, we need this weekend.

Being Frugal News

I don’t have much to report this week.  I am planning on making a camping-related video over the next few days.  Don’t worry.  I’m not really working.  Ok, I am, but it’s fun work.  And I’ll shoot most of it at home before we leave.  Hopefully I can get that edited and posted by next Wednesday or Thursday.

The Roundup

Here are some good posts from the last week or so.

• Victim Mentality and Personal Finance at Moolanomy
• The ebb and flow of financial life at Bible Money Matters
• Do We Need Another Stimulus Check? at Cash Money Life
• Dreamkillers at Quest for Four Pillars
• Take a Tax Free Holiday Before School Starts at Credit Withdrawal
• Sales of SPAM on the Rise at Gather Little by Little
• Begin at the Beginning at Remodeling This Life
• Is Living on One Income a Status Symbol? at Wise Bread
• Don’t Pay Your Children’s College Education at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
• Night Guy and Morning Guy at Brip Blap

Finally, here are two more things I know you won’t want to miss.

• Squawkfox has written and released her first e-book, Frugal Food & Fitness:  Get fab without spending a fortune.   And guess what?  It’s FREE!  I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I’m going to check it out when we get back from our camping trip!
• The Centsible Sawyer is giving away 4 copies of Greatest Secrets of the Coupon Mom by Stephanie Nelson!  I’ve read this book, and it’s a good one.  If you want to get started with couponing and don’t know where to begin, you should read this book!  CLICK HERE to find out how to win!

Have a great weekend!  And pray for sun on the coast!  I hear it’s supposed to be kind of cool over there this weekend!

Photo by dphershman.

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