The Roundup - Reorg Edition

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Eric
Filed Under Roundups

I love casual Fridays… Even though it’s been a short week, it feels like it’s been a long week. My team is getting reorganized within the company at work and that has created a fair amount of stress, but overall I believe the change will be very positive. I know that it’s going to improve things for me, and for my work situation, but between getting a new boss and having issues with the upcoming house purchase, it made the week seem like it was a month long.

To help de-stress, here were some of my favorite posts of the week :

Over at Moolanomy, Pinyo points out some great ways to evaluate how much your house is worth. Not as much as I thought, according to the average of many of these sites.

Silicon Valley Blogger has me thinking about buying a statue of St. Joseph so that when I have to sell later this year, I can get even more profit out of the house. Lots of great advice in the article, and I’m going to be sure not to fall into any of those traps.

Five Cent Nickel wrote about refilling his travel-size toothpaste. Honestly, I am going to follow his lead. I hate having to buy those little bottles. Seems like such a waste….

Over at Consumerism Commentary, I read about becoming an Accidental Landlord. I actually read the same article at CNN that Sasha did. If the housing market is still way down when the new house is finished, I may decided that it makes more sense to hang onto to the current home rather than sell as I had initially planned. I hadn’t thought about all the potential additional costs of getting the rental house up to code however. Now I have to rethink things again.

At BripBlap, the Sunday poll was an interesting one : What do you do with regards to work when you get sick? I try to spare my co-workers by working at home for a few days, but when I get too sick to work, I do take a day of vacation to let my body recover. If I give myself that time, I can recover much more quickly.

I think I’ll follow the advice over at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity and postpone my 0% purchase offers until after I get my new mortgage (at the best rate possible). We spent a good year following advice for raising our credit scores, and it worked wonders. We don’t want to mess with it now right before the home purchase. Right afterward however, we’ll see if we can find a 0% interest deal on some appliances….

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5 Responses to “The Roundup - Reorg Edition”

The Digerati Life on September 9th, 2007 4:29 pm

Great roundup! Thanks for checking out my post. And really nice site. :) Did you do a redesign?
Eric on September 9th, 2007 4:56 pm

Thanks! We really enjoyed your post, especially since we are going to be selling our house soon.

And thanks for the site compliment! We haven’t done any major redesigns, but we keep tweaking the theme and site layout and I’m sure it will continue to evolve.
Flexo on September 9th, 2007 5:29 pm

Thanks for the link to Consumerism Commentary!
Pinyo on September 9th, 2007 8:44 pm

Agreed. Good roundup and beautiful site. Thanks for mentioning Moolanomy!
Brip Blap on September 10th, 2007 7:16 pm

Hey, thanks for the link! Glad you liked the poll - I was asking for opinions since I felt a cold coming on after the rest of my family got it, but so far I’m not sick. Good news: not sick. Bad news: no excuse to stay home :(