The Friday Five

Friday Five

The Friday Five

May 30th – June 5th

The Friday Five is a new series where I share what I consider are the week’s top-five money related articles from around the web.  There are a lot of great personal finance websites publishing amazing content daily and I feel that I must share them with you.  I hope you enjoy my five favorite articles of the week.

If you haven’t, please read this week’s posts on Our Trip To Boston and My Friend, The Artist.  Please don’t forget to follow me on Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and like Million Dollar Ninja on Facebook.

In no particular order here are The Friday Five

1.  Dee S at Color Me Frugal writes, Is It Harder For Parents to Achieve Financial Independence?  Kids could get expensive, which means less money to save, but is it harder for parents?

2.  Holly at Club Thrifty writes, Knowing When to Splurge.  We’re all about saving, but we also need to have fun… especially if Pearl Jam is involved.

3.  Stefanie O’Connell at The Broke and Beautiful Life writes, Percentage Budgeting: A Flexible Alternative.  I like budgeting specific money amounts, but percentage budgeting has its advantages.

4.  Chris at Modest Money writes, 4 Signs That It’s Time For You to Get Life Insurance.  Don’t leave your family hanging – get life insurance.

5.  Jacqueline Curtis at Money Crashers writes, 10 Lessons I Learned About Money Management as a Young Adult in My Twenties.  I wish I had read this article earlier – I would’ve been in a better financial position now.

Please check out all these great articles and I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

On a side note: When we were in Boston this weekend eating $0.50 oysters, we got to watch a little bit of the hockey game.  I’m not a fan of hockey, but we had no control of the TV at the tavern so we had to watch it.  As always, I was not impressed with the game – it seems like there’s no real strategy to the game, just players standing around waiting for the puck and others trying to fling the puck to the other side. What surprised me from watching the game were the commercials.

I noticed that during every break there was a commercial about investing and/or retirement.  I’ve never seen so many investing ads during sporting events before – mostly beer and gatorade – but yet again I don’t watch that many sporting events to begin with.

Is this something new or is this typical of hockey games?  Maybe they are trying to target the hockey demographic – rich people.  Nothing wrong with it, I just found it curious.

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7 Comments

    • I’m not too big into sports anymore, but I do tend to watch the finals of many different sports. I also like the olympics and the world cup – even though I don’t watch any soccer games in the four years between world cups.

    • Yes Dee, the hockey demographic is the least diversified of all the major sports and a big percentage tend to be better off financially. I just didn’t know they were targeted so heavily during the games.

    • Kate

      Yes, hockey is definitely an expensive sport, thus a rich people sport. Equipment + ice rink time is expensive if you actually want to train seriously. And even if playing a casual outdoors game with friends, hockey is more expensive than football, soccer, or baseball… (rollerblades as you grow up + hockey stick at a minimum, although gloves and masks/helmets for goalies are pretty much a necessity… versus a football, soccerball, or baseball + bat).

  3. I feel like most sports they are advertising towards the man watching on his big screen thinking he should be at the game with season tickets and of course you need investments for that.

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