Top – Sugar Cane Reality
Bottom – Wishful Thinking?
Fun Fact About Florida for the Day: Florida produces the most sugar cane in the United States.
We tend to forget about sugar and think of Florida as being covered in orange groves and tomato farms, but in reality there’s a large swath of the state around Lake O that supplies much of the country with our daily addictions. The PoPs were reminded of this recently when we drove by Lake O and passed field after field of sugar cane.
Maybe it’s just me, but I have this odd disconnect with sugar cane where I don’t think of it as a plant, but rather as uber-processed and colored candy canes.
Anyhow… I trust that everyone is eating their fill of lovely candy canes this time of year, so we may as well get on with the business of what went on around the PF net this week.
But first, if you’re liking what you read here, I’d like to throw in a quick plug for our PoP RSS feed - it can be delivered via email or your favorite RSS reader. We may send you sugar cane if you do… but don’t count on it. =)
Love From Others
- Benjamin at Ready For Zero highlighted Planting Our Pennies as their Blogger of the Month for December. Hot Dawg, what an honor! Check out our interview with Ready For Zero.
- Our post That’s Not Frugal, It’s Theft from a couple of weeks ago is still reverberating through the interwebs as Fearless Men included it in Fearless Men’s Weekly Roundup, and Frugal News Review included it in the Frugal News Review Podcast Episode 27. Check out both!
- And lastly, our post What To Include In Your Net Worth was included in the weekly roundups by Jessica at Mo Money Mo Houses and Harry at Your PF Pro.
Thanks to everyone that mentioned our posts or our site this week. It means the world. And of course – if I missed any pingbacks, please let me know and I’ll fix it!
Love For Others
- Marie at Broke Professionals wrote this week about How To Legally Snoop On Your Neighbors. We did a LOT of public record searches when we were foreclosure hunting, and having access to all those records was absolutely priceless for us. But Marie seems fairly concerned about the privacy aspect as well, although she tends to lump public data that was personally posted in with that which is a part of the public record. I tend to think of those as separate since one you chose, and the second you did not have a choice in depending on Sunshine laws.
- Kim at Eyes On the Dollar hosted a guest post this week by Mandy from Money Master Mom that asked “Do Your Purchases Reflect Your Values?” We’ve been doing quite a bit of thinking about that lately as Mr. PoP and I continue to talk about Buying a $2K Tube Amp. It seems that purchase matches up with a lot of our values: repairability and sustainability, DIY, “buy it for life“, beauty, and long term enjoyment.
- And lastly, Kathleen at Frugal Portland had some great traction in her net worth this year, getting 250% net worth growth in a year. Even though her percentages might not look as impressive as her net worth continues to grow in real terms in the future, this is still an awesome milestone that she’ll no doubt continue into the future. Congrats, Frugal Portland!
Thanks for mentioning Mandy’s guest post. It was really spot on. Do you ever wish for cold around Christmas time or do you always love the warm weather? It has been so unseasonable warm here this December that I went for a run in a tank top yesterday, but woke up to below 30 degrees and some snow today. Never get used to weather in Colorado!
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I grew up in a warm climate, so seeing lights strung on palm trees around town is totally what I’m used to. Sometimes I think Mr. PoP misses it a little, but all it takes is a couple of days up north in the cold and he’s ready to come home to FL again.
I think the weather’s been a little crazy elsewhere in the US lately, too! A friend in rural Virginia was saying it was 70 for them the other day, which is unseasonably warm!
Thanks for the mention. I have to be completely honest, I don’t really know what a 2K tube amp is – well I get the 2K part, but it’s sounds like you guys have done some serious consideration before buying so I’ll give you the MoneyMaster stamp of approval
Yeah, it’s imaginary, but pretty awesome too.
Mandy @ MoneyMasterMom recently posted..Our Family Expenses for November 2012
haha, Thanks for the stamp of approval. This tube amp is basically part of a stereo system that Mr. PoP started building about a decade ago. Right now he’s got a cheap amp in there, but this would go in place of the cheap one and give much higher quality sound. It would also complete a project more than a decade in the process =)
Here in Australia we have a state called Queensland which literally have about 1000 kilometers of sugar cane up and down the coast.
Apparently we are the 3rd largest raw sugar supplier in world and I would bet any money that most of it is produced in that 1000 kilometer stretch.
Glen @ Monster Piggy Bank recently posted..Tattoos at work – Does it impact on your employment opportunities?
Have you ever gone there to look at it? It just strikes such an odd note with me because it looks nothing like the processed white stuff we end up with =)
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Thanks for including our weekly Fearless Men Round-Up! I did not know that about Florida. If I was on jeopardy I would’ve picked OJ for sure.
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haha, well if you’re ever on final jeopardy and win based on your newfound knowledge of the FL sugar industry, I hope you remember the PoP’s fondly. =)
Up here in Michigan we have the sugar beet. Not quite as sexy as sugar cane, can’t make beet rum. Enjoy those candy canes.
Justin@TheFrugalPath recently posted..Finding Your Path To Financial Independence
If they can make potato vodka, maybe there’s a beet rum out there somewhere!
Thanks for mentioning Ben’s interview of you
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Shannon-ReadyForZero recently posted..Is Your Job Keeping You From a Bright Financial Future?
No, thanks to you guys! And let Ben know that Mr. PoP got the badge up on our site this weekend, too!
Will do
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Shannon-ReadyForZero recently posted..Is Your Job Keeping You From a Bright Financial Future?
reminds me of Wisconsin and California. WI is the freaking dairy state but I guess CA now makes more cheese or has more dairy farms, or something like that.
TB at BlueCollarWorkman recently posted..Never Ask About a Foreclosed Home
No way! CA can’t be the cheese state now =)
Thanks for the mention! The only time I think about sugar cane is when I read “The Brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao” and from that book, I know it is sharp.
Kathleen, Frugal Portland recently posted..Review of my 20 Things
I’ve never heard of that book – I’ll have to add it to my list, though!
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