Saturday Link Love: No Snow Edition

HISTORIC! PARALYZING! The snowstorm of a generation! 

Man, I wish I was a meteorologist (one of the 10 career tracks I considered in high school), just so I could get paid to make educated guesses. The very large snowstorm that pummeled the eastern half of the U.S. was little more than a whimper here in North Jersey. There’s not a speck of new snow to be seen. While we grownups are mostly happy that there’s none of the white stuff to deal with this Super Bowl weekend, I know more than a few little kids who woke up very disappointed this morning!

I realize I’ve skipped a Fix-it Friday post already (it’s only week two), but I’m going to wait until I try to install a digital thermostat next week. Could be catastrophic or wonderful — only time will tell.

After dinner with friends to celebrate a few birthdays tonight, it will be a lean week in the Rainy-Day Saver household, due to the major payments put toward the CC this month. We’ll also hopefully be doing our taxes this weekend — the sooner we do them, the sooner we get our good-sized refund. I’ve estimated about $10,000, so we’ll see what the actual numbers are. That money will be going to finishing off the balance on CC #2, with the rest padding our somewhat-anemic emergency fun, which only would cover about two months’ worth of expenses at this point.

This Week’s Web Mentions
Cash Money Life included my post “Protecting Privacy in the Information Age” in the Carnival of Personal Financ #242 — Fun Tax Facts.

Posts that Intrigued Me
A Gai Shan Life’s Dementia in the Family: The Long Road to Nowhere, a touching post about how Revanche and her dad struggle to deal with her mother’s dementia.

There’s a lively discussion over at Consumerism Commentary’s post, Which Should You Pay First: Credit Cards or Mortgage? with readers divided into two camps on this topic.

Credit Card Strategery is a look at why the Executioner at Death to the Mortgage prefers credit cards over debit cards.

Over at Girl With the Red Balloon, In the Red: What Happens When Bankruptcy Doesn’t Work is a personal story about the dilemma faced by Red’s grandmother.

As always, Financial Samurai poses another controversial question: Do “C” Students Deserve a “A” Lifestyles? Is there a correlation between grades and later success?