Morning!

Congrats on making it to Friday! :)

Here’s a bunch of my favorite things I caught from around the web, as well as the most popular articles on Budgets Are Sexy lately…

I know it’s scary out there but at least we have each other, right?! RIGHT???!

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Popular on the blog:

A friendly reminder… – YOU ARE INVESTED FOR THE LONG HAUL!

An Aspiring Goal to Shoot For – Spending more on *donations* than *wants* every month.

$$$ Jokes For Your Amusement — For anyone needing a smile :)

Some life updates — Including feelings about our minivan, our newish house, our dog (❤️🐶❤️🐶), my blog, my kids, as well as an update on my dear friend Agatha battling some stuff right now…

Joe’s $400k Net Worth + 5 Key Takeaways — “I like to track and look at our budget in terms of daily spending because it really lets you appreciate and understand what you need to do to achieve your long term goals.”

Wondering if YOU ever spend money inside video games? — “77% of respondents have spent money on Fortnite in-game purchases, which was up from 69% in 2018. The average amount spent was $102.42…”

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Favorite finds from around the web:

How to Create Gratitude via Raptitude — “This thing you have – this meal, this bed, these clothes, this friend – if it’s possible to have it, it’s possible not to have it. If you take a moment to imagine not having it, the good fortune of having it is no longer lost on you.”

National Parks In America Based On Their Worst Review (16 Pics) via Bored Panda — “I’m an illustrator and I have always had a personal goal to draw all 62 US National Parks, but I wanted to find a unique twist for the project. When I found that there are one-star reviews for every single park, the idea for Subpar Parks was born.”

Panera’s New $9/Month Coffee Subscription is  via LifeHacker — “If you’re always popping into the same coffee shop for a quick cup—and that coffee shop just happens to be Panera—you might want to get a subscription.”

J.Money: Budgets Are Sexy, Accidental Entrepreneur & The ‘Drama List’ via WealthFit — “In this amazing show, we talk about budgets and how they can be sexy. We talk about being an accidental entrepreneur, the drama list and why everybody needs the drama list. We talk about the ride of going from $50,000 in net worth all the way to $1 million and where you can see this each and every year undocumented. We also get into a $40 bottle of water and how that’s even possible.”

Now Is When We All Learn to Darn Our Socks Again via NY Times — “”Visible mending” has been taken up by those who want to protest fast fashion and disposable culture. It’s also thrifty.”

Twitch Streamers Make Thousands Literally by Just Sleeping via Wired — “Over the past few weeks, streamers have been training their cameras on their mattresses as they doze off. In the intervening hours, viewers use Twitch’s donation function to gift them small quantities of money—$2 dollars, $5 there. A couple of streamers cutely refer to them as “slumber parties.””

[How to Make Money in Your Sleep via NY Times – another good article on this]

This App Saves Money On Prescriptions via HuffPost — “We found that frequently the price of the same pills can be double or triple at one store what another store just miles away charges. In some cases, the highest price was more than six times the lowest price listed on GoodRx.”

And then my FAVORITE find this week – cute little fruit savers by Hutzler!

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Hang in there everyone! Life is still good despite the disruption!

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