It’s a quickie kind of week. We’re in our last push to get the house ready for the foster home inspection and trying to get the basement and spare room/baby’s room done this weekend.

In good news, we discovered that it looks like we have hard woods under our carpets. We actually prefer carpet for a lot of things, but I’d been thinking of putting laminate in the baby’s room. If we just have to pull up carpets and hire someone to come in and finish the hardwoods, that’s even better.

So, here we go into a quickie roundup of what I’m reading.

American Debt Project is attempting to go 28 days without TV (until the premier of Breaking Bad). In the meantime, she’s pondering important questions like What Kind of Jobs Make You Happy?

Mr. Money Mustache just gave up $1,000/week to maintain his freedom. No, he wasn’t held for ransom, you’ll just have to read and find out what happened.

Jeff at Sustainable Life Blog has made huge progress on his debt over the last few years. This week, he gave us an update on exactly how far he’s come.

Well Heeled Blog is about to move for grad school, and she wants to live without a car in her new home. So here’s the question- Is she crazy?

Newlyweds on a Budget have been struggling to catch up from Eric’s injury in April that left him out of work for 5 weeks. They realized this month that it wouldn’t be quite as easy as they thought, and now it’s time for drastic measures.

And now on to welcome two new Yakezie challengers.

First is Access Not Denied. Since I’m a geek, none of should be surprised by me highlighting his post about super hero movies so far this summer.

We’re also welcoming Travel By Points (especially since I got my plane tickets to FinCon yesterday using credit card points). Since Machu Picchu is one of my dream destinations, we’ll highlight this post about finding a good home base for that trip.