Happy early-Halloween, everybody. Kids were out trick-or-treating at the mall yesterday, and we are all stocked up on candy for the neighborhood kids on Wednesday. So we are prepared. No costume parties for us this year, but Kitty PoP put on the same Halloween costume he’s worn the last three years and had a little modeling session for my general amusement. Don’t judge. It was a particularly rough week at work and I felt the need for some ridiculousness in my life to counteract it.
Mr. PoP thinks I’m crazy for this and his mom thinks Kitty PoP should be a model for cat calendars. What do you guys think?
In case it’s not totally obvious, Kitty PoP is a lion. ROAR! Pretty awesome, right? Hey – the costume was $6 three years ago. And as ridiculous as it is, it has definitely brought $6 worth of joy to our lives during that span.
Anyhow… on to the important thank you’s for the week.
Love From Others
- The PoPs were included in a personal finance roundtable hosted by Ready For Zero on The Worst Budgeting Tip You’ve Ever Heard this week. Ready For Zero is a debt management (reduction?) tool that we’ve recently started to try out and will hopefully be posting a review on it within the next couple of months. The “zero” they want you to be ready for is zero debt.
- Corey at 20′s Finances included Mr. PoP’s series on How Do You Go From Minimum Wage to $80K In A Year? in this week’s Financial Carnival for Young Adults.
- Our post What Do You Mean, Average? was the start of a little mini-series that ended at 6400 Personal Finance with the second post, Variability Can Eat Your Returns. Harry from Your PF Pro liked it enough to include it in his End of Summer Update/Favorites.
- Pauline at Reach Financial Independence and Mr. CBB from Canadian Budget Binder included The First Rule of Improv: Yes, And… in their picks this week. Pauline’s are at Friday Recap #5 and Mr. CBB’s are at Mr. CBB’s Weekly Picks.
- And lastly, our post The Joneses? Never Met ‘Em seemed to be a hit since Erin over at Dog Ate My Wallet, Terry at Fix Me Up Rent Me Out and Catherine at Plunged in Debt all included it in their roundups. Erin’s is at What I’m Reading: Grey Skies, Terry also included some good information on 5 Steps To Take If Your House Is Flooded, and here are Catherine’s Weekly Reads.
As always, all of these posts have some great links – though if you’re looking for one with a bit of something different this week, go with Erin’s at Dog Ate My Wallet. Turns out there’s more to life than personal finance, and she embraces those other sides of us as well. Plus, she has pictures of dogs.
Love For Others
- Prompted by an article by John Scalzi on being poor, CF at Outlier Model writes her own reflections on the topic in Being Poor In North America. She links to the original thought-provoking piece – and I recommend reading both the piece and her reactions.
- Over at Finance Fox, Eddie lets guest poster Daniel from Sweating the Big Stuff take the stage and try to convince Eddie’s readers that it’s a perfectly reasonable proposition to spend $10K on an engagement ring. Would You Spend $10K on the Engagement Ring? Heavens knows that Mr. PoP and I didn’t spend that kind of money on our wedding set. We were lucky to have a beautiful hand-me-down set from Mr. PoP’s great grandmother that I wear (actual cost to us $35 to size it down, retail value – waaaaay under $10K), and his ring was maybe $300? So you can guess what side of the ring debate we fall on.
- 101 Centavos decided to stop kvetching about ObamaCare and put some thought into figuring out how to profit from it in Investing In Fatties, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love ObamaCare Part 1. I am eagerly awaiting part 2.
- Lastly, but somewhat amusingly, L Bee and the Money Tree is running a photo caption contest for a picture of her pup looking like a drunkard. If you like drunk puppy pics – go check out the Caption Contest Murray Edition. Again, animal pics brought me joy this week. If you need the cute animal pick me up, too – I won’t judge. =)
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I’ll just leave you with one more slightly blurry action shot of Kitty PoP from the photo shoot. The lion mane makes his little yawn look somewhat ferocious, no?
So what do you think? Could Kitty PoP be a cat-calendar pin-up?
I love the costume!! I tried to put a Santa suit on my cat and almost lost an eyeball.
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Haha, Kitty PoP has a santa costume that I picked up at Dollar Tree a few years ago ($1!) that comes out with the Christmas decorations every year. He’s a good sport about the costumes for the most part. The lion one is his least favorite because it covers his ears, whereas if you put him in the santa outfit he’ll walk around in it all day.
Thanks for the inclusion. It wasn’t totally obvious to me your cat was a lion, I actually thought it was some kind of wig, but it made me laugh just the same
Thanks again!
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You are welcome! Glad you got a good laugh out of it even if it wasn’t obvious. Some other pics showed a bit more of the rest of the costume which makes it look a bit more lion-like, but I didn’t think they were nearly as cute. =)
All kittehs are lions at heart. Thanks for the hat tip, Mrs. PoP.
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Yes, and this one is a natural born hunter if there ever were one. We feel we’re doing the neighborhood bird population a big favor by keeping him indoors.
You’re welcome – and thanks for the great post!
Thanks for including us! The cat costume is hilarious. The last photo looks suspiciously like a yawn, so the cat might need some acting classes before making it big time, haha.
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Yeah, he was settling in for a nap after putting up with the photo shoot for long enough. But I’m not sure there are enough cat treats to get him to put up with kitty acting classes. He’ll have to be okay being a non-famous cat, I guess. =)
Thanks for the mention.
When you mention taking the kids to the mall for Halloween, that brought back fond memories of when we used to do the same thing. It’s such a safe and exciting thing for the kids.
For me, I get a Donald Trump vibe when I look at Kitty Pop in the lion wig.
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Yeah, seeing the kids at the mall was a nice surprise since we didn’t realize it when we decided to walk around there for a while. It was pretty cute to see all the little ones with their costumes.
Turning it into The Donald hadn’t occurred to me. Maybe I can give the wig a bit of a comb-over and see if the costume can do double duty!
Your cat is soooo cute!
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Aww, thanks!
Kitty PoP: Trust me…I’m a lion.
I wouldn’t know how to get your cat into modeling, but if there’s a way to do so, YES! Kitty PoP is the best cat model I’ve seen in a long time.
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haha, yeah I would have no idea how to get him into cat modeling, and I’m pretty sure he would hate it. He lets me dress him up and goof around, but he’s actually terrified of strangers. A literal scaredy-cat. So I think modeling’s not really in his future unless it’s for my camera. But thanks for the compliments!
Ha! Your cat does pose like models do, which is crazy awesome. But I admit, the costume is ridiculous. But if you got a laugh from it, then that’s good!
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Oh I know it’s utterly ridiculous – that’s actually part of the amusement, I think. =)
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LOVE the lion costume
. Great minds think alike – we also wanted to dedicate our shout outs to Halloween this week! I love this time of year and will use any excuse possible to celebrate it!
Also, I’m not sure where you’re located but if you’re on the East Coast I hope you’re prepared and staying safe from Hurricane Sandy!
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We’re in FL, so Sandy was a non-event for us last Thurs/Friday, but we’re thinking of all our friends in the NE. Hopefully the preparations they took are enough!
I’m so glad that it was a non-event for you and wishing the best for your friends in the NE! I used to live in New York so wishing the same for my friends there!
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Haha! Absolutely! So freaking cute! And whoever the photographer was isn’t half-bad.
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Why thank you! I took the pictures on my phone =)
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