Sunday Link Love: March 20, 2011

Happy Sunday everyone! Today I’m playing in my social field hockey league’s championship game. So by the time you read this, we could be champions! :) Which would be great, considering my competitive field hockey team ended up missing the playoffs completely and finishing third to last. Can’t win ‘em all, I guess.

What would you do with $1 million?
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about what I would do if I won $1 million. I answered the question on March 5, 2007. And I answered it again, 4 years later – in an attempt to see how my values and thoughts towards money have changed. Well, a bunch of other bloggers joined in on the fun, and posted their response to the $1,000,000 question (or in some cases, changed to a $100,000 question): Hi, That’s My Bike, Frugal in my Forties, fabulously fru-girl, Nickel by Nickel, Money Rabbit, Digging Out and Up, Paying Myself, Figuring Money Out, Finance Say What, Morgaine and Money, and Little Miss Moneybags. Let me know if I missed your link. Or feel free to post your own response in the comments or on your own blog! It’s fun to come back after a period of time and reflect on what you would have done with a large sum of money.

Around the blogosphere

• Budgets are Sexy tells you to spend 15 minutes to dream up a sexier life.
• Canadian Dream asks how do you get your spouse interested in early retirement?
• Gail Vaz-Oxlade writes a great post about fear.
• Girl with the Red Balloon dreams about how renting has her longing for home ownership.
• Serendipity opens up about one of the 7 Deadly Sins – envy.

Not quite PF-related
One of my favourite restaurants in my home town is Noodle Box. This is a photo of my favourite dish, the Indonesian spicy peanut stir fry. Anyway, BF and I went on a date to the Kitsilano (Vancouver) location. We then took our food to the beach and enjoyed the beautiful day. There are two Vancouver locations now, so if you are ever in town, I high recommend checking this place out.

Blast from the past
A few years ago, Budgets are Sexy asked: what would you do with 3 financial do-overs? It was a great exercise to really think back on my life at what things I truly wish I had done differently. I personally don’t regret anything I’ve done in my life, because they’ve all shaped me into the person that I am today. I think that you learn from everything that you do – good or bad – and you can take those learning experiences and apply that knowledge to your everyday life. That being said, it was still fun (or maybe a little tragic) to think about where I would be had I done these 3 things differently:

1. I wouldn’t have moved into my own apartment in between switching colleges.
2. When I was working my 1st government job (1st of 3 stints), I should have saved at least some money.
3. I would have started to contribute to my RRSPs a lot sooner.

You can read a more detailed description of my 3 financial do-overs here. What would you do with 3 financial do-overs?

One Response to “Sunday Link Love: March 20, 2011”

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1. 3 Financial Do-Overs « Frugal in my Forties says:

   Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 04:50am at 4:09 am

   [...] at Give Me Back My Five Bucks revisited an earlier post of hers in her Sunday Link Love post and asked: What would you do with 3 financial [...]

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