I was just saying in a randoms the other day that I wanted to talk about money (I don't know what specifically, I want someone else to start)! I'm in a similar spot. Not a total novice, but need some motivation to tighten up the budget, and I'd like to start saving for a down payment and learn more about buying a home.
this is where we're at. if we ever want out of our rental we need to tighten our financial belt significantly. the thing is, i don't really need advice on how to save or what to cut. i want a community (here or elsewhere) that celebrates the "i skipped starbucks today and saved $35 on my grocery bill - $40 more in our down payment fund!" type stuff. i feel like that sort of stuff doesn't get a lot of love here (mmm or mm). it might get views, but not much for discussion.
I think it was 2 years ago that karinothing started a weekly spending freeze thread I participated in, and it was this sort of stuff. At the time, she and I at least were heavily saving for our down payments. And then we both bought houses within a few months of each other the following year.
Our "budget" (lol) has been a bit out of control this year as the first year in a new house, but with the baby coming soon and double daycare bills looming, I might be up for a similar weekly thread at the beginning of 2015.
Maybe for the new year we could try it?
Also, as far as the MM thing goes, there are so many posters there I really, really like. I kinda wish they would all just have kids and come over here (even though some of them already have kids!)
I like MM and continue to actively post there. I have never personally felt animosity between MM and MMM. Sometimes I want to talk about my kids, and sometimes I want to talk about anything but my kids, so posting both places works for me. Clearly I am in the minority.
I was so tired of all the bliss stuff and, like it was said above, big picture stuff is trucking along and the little stuff just isn't on my radar anymore, so I just don't go to MM anymore. I split time between MMM and ML.
Yes, but I don't post there very often anymore. Most of the people I "know" are either active on twitter or moved to other gbcn boards, so that's where I go as well even though we all mostly first met on MM.
Yes, but then baby envino ate my brain and I could no longer muster any interest for MM topics.
This is where I am. (wilted)
You know, I didn't think about it but I think this is when I lost interest. Because for all of the other reasons (bliss, app view of New Topics, etc), I really think ultimately it probably was that I was away after I had DD, mostly posting on TB then on MMMoms and by the time I started to check out MM every now and then, lots of people had moved on, I didn't recognize many people, etc. It just wasn't the same and I had found other boards so my interest just waned further. Plus, I spend my money on kid shit
Ok, I changed my vote to yes, because I came to MMM from MM, though I was mainly lurking at the time. I still post occssionally on actual MM-related threads, like budget and investing questions. But I post my randoms here.
Post by nextbigthing on Dec 19, 2014 7:53:26 GMT -5
I lurked more than posted on MM for close to 9 years. Now I find myself reading more over here but popping into MM some. With the first kiddo coming I'm more interested in mom stuff that money stuff right now
I lurked there primarily and posted a little but I wouldn't say I was a regular. I do credit MM for making me realize that I had to be aware of what was going on in our finances! I really didn'tpay any attention u til I was like 28/29.
I would say you were/are a MM regular. But I am not in charge!
I wouldn't consider myself a regular on this board. I find myself less and less interested in talking about kid stuff now that DS is older and DD is getting bigger too.
I was so tired of all the bliss stuff and, like it was said above, big picture stuff is trucking along and the little stuff just isn't on my radar anymore, so I just don't go to MM anymore. I split time between MMM and ML.
I find Bliss to be extremely irksome and think people should treat her as a troll and just block her if they can't simply ignore her.
I wish there was some magical world in which you could block not only the individual posts by someone, but also the threads that they start. I find it hard to threads started by blocked people that keep getting bumped to the top and have large post counts. That makes me want to see what the drama is all about! And that's how most bliss drama starts. So blocking doesn't usually work for me.
Sigh. (Also, I know my inability to ignore is all on me).