Weekend LinkLove: Saturday, March 6, 2010

Yesterday we took a day off from posting after a crazy week of activities!

• Monday night was Hope’s annual Musical Showcase at DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids.  It’s become an annual date night for us, with a nice dinner out (using Restaurant.com, of course) and then the concert.  It was great!
• On Wednesday night, Andrew and Hope student bloggers hosted the first ever live video chat for students considering Hope College for this fall.
• Thursday night was the beginning of our major home improvement project for 2010 — more on that to come in a post in the near future.

However, our busy week didn’t keep us from reading!  Here’s what we were taking a look at this week:

This one’s been in our queue for a while now, from daveramsey.com: 10 Things You Wish You Knew in College, great advice that they picked up from asking the question on Facebook and Twitter.

Shannon from Hidden Abundance, guest posting on Christian PF, suggests some Savvy Ways to Save while Shopping.

Sally from Money Crashers has some ideas on How to Go on Dates for Less.  On our first date, we went out lunch — it was fairly inexpensive and Andrew paid the bill.  On our second date, we went out to lunch again — it was even less expensive, and so as not to set a precedent, Andrew suggested that we go Dutch.

Jacques from The Smarter Wallet shares 5 Career Planning Tips For College Graduates.  Our biggest suggestion?  Continually remind yourself that just because your parents have something, doesn’t mean that you are immediately entitled to it as well.  You have your whole life to work toward what they have.

Along somewhat similar lines, The Debt Hawk offers his or her Top 10 Tips for Graduating College With Little Debt.  The main takeaway here is to live simply while in college.

Jason at One Money Design features a review of Mvelopes Personal Budgeting Software.

Stew over at Gather Little By Little asks the question, “Why go to bed early?“.  We also agree with the idea of not having a TV in our bedroom — it’s just another opportunity to stay up late watching TV just for the sake of watching.

Kelly at Consumerism Commentary has some great ideas on Unexpected Income: What Should You Do With a Windfall?.  Sometimes turning it into fun money is a good idea!

And finally, Craig at Money Help for Christians asks, “Short Term Mission Trips: Worth The Cost?“.  We’ll have to share a little bit about our mission trip experiences, some fairly expensive, in a later post.

That’s all for now — have a great weekend!