by Tricia
I’ll still have a Friday Blog Highlight, but it will be highlighting articles that caught my attention during the week. I found some great articles this week that you might enjoy, so I felt like sharing.
First off is Globguru at Musings of a Graduate Student. He shares that he has 18 credit cards and not a single late payment. Here I am worried about 4 credit card payments!
Secondly, we have John at Mighty Bargain Hunter. He gives us a little bit of insight into his personality when he discusses how, This P Has to be More J About his Finances. He is talking about the Myers-Briggs type indicator. Me, I used to be an ISFJ in high school, but when I took the test my third year of college I was an INTJ. Perhaps all along I was an INTJ, but I thought I was more of an ISFJ. Anyways, I probably should look at how my type relates to personal finances sometime soon. It could be very informative.
Lastly, there was a question I enjoyed over at AllFinancialMatters. JLP asked, Has a song or piece of music ever given you goosebumps when you listen to it?. You can see my comment over there. Basically, I have felt them one time while playing music and it was one of the greatest feelings in the world.
Thanks for the mention!
It was enlightening to know where my tendencies come from. My strongest expressed were I and P and a lot less clearly expressed were S and F.
I have been reading this thread since it started a long time ago, and yes, I know where you live matters a lot! I am in western Washington state and I am a very frugal shopper. I use coupons, only shop the sales, shop at cheap stores and we spend on average $125 a week plus $250 a month at Costco to feed us. That comes out on average to $750 a month. We are a family of 6 with 1 dog and 4 cats. That price includes everything, food to animal care to paper and medical products.
I have a friend who moved from here to Vancouver, WA and she has the same size family as me, and her kids are the same age (2 teens, 2 younger children). They hardly eat out like us, and they spend on average $550 a month. Oh yeah they have animals too who consume about the same as ours. Whenever they come to visit she is sticker shocked in the stores. She can’t believe how much more expensive it is!
I have family in Missouri and when I was back there a few years ago, I went with my sister to Aldi’s. We do not have Aldi’s here (I WISH!), and wow the prices in there are incredible! They are my lowest of the year sale prices, if that. They have a family of 4 and spend about $400 a month on groceries, and they do eat out a bit.
Geography has much to do with it!