Weekly Round-Up: It’s Hot

Gasp. Pant. Lounge… it’s hot here!

Seriously- the crickets are out in full force. Time for some serious couch time.

But before I collapse with a bucket of ice cubes, here are some favorite reads from this week.

• The Laundry List: Best Washers, Dryers and Detergents – ABC News
• Can you ever afford to have children? By Jeanne Sager for Babble.com.

I also participated in the following carnivals:

• The Carnival of Debt Reduction, with my post (your post, really) on the envelope method of budgeting.
• The Carnival of Pecuniarities with, appropriately, my post on cooling my house frugally.
• The Carnival of Personal Finance, with my post on budgeting and dieting.
• The Festival of Frugality, with my post on encouraging my family to join me on my frugal ways.

As always, you can check out the Good Reads page or my Tumblr site Almost Frugal Finds for all my links. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Kelly Rigotti started Almost Frugal as a thirty-something American trying to dig her way out from under a mountain of debt (~€60,000). She's almost frugal and would like to be more so, but shops at Ikea too often for her own good.

Kelly has blogged 584 posts here.