Food stamps?

Breena Ronan has an excellent post at Who doesn't love roses questioning if it's legit for grad students to supplement their stipends with public assistance. Go check it out!

Link Love II

While it now seems to be defunct, Lauren at Faux Real Tho had a great series called "Help Us Help Ourselves" -- basically, a series of helpful links and tips for anyone, not just academics, trying to live on a strict budget. Another collection of links in that series went up last year at Feministe. They include instructions for getting the most out of thrift stores, cheap and nutritious recipes, and tips on auto repair.

Link Love

A few blogs you might enjoy:

Dance has a great post describing a budgeting tool she developed during grad school, but still uses with her Big-Bucks Professor Income. She has links to a template you can check out so you can model something like this to suit your own needs. Very useful, very cool.

Candid Engineer has a recent post discussing how difficult it can be for two people to live on one salary when you don't feel like you're getting a fair slice of the pie.

An English Major's Money is a new-to-me blog (that recently linked to this blog -- thanks!) with all sorts of tips and advice from a recently graduated English major living in New York City.

Arduous Blog, which is a terrific blog primarily about nonconsumerism and environmental activism, had a post a while back about how hard it had been to save money when it was only about saving money. When she shifted her focus to using less, Arduous found herself on top of her finances without feeling deprived. This isn't an academic blog, but I really liked this post.

Know of other interesting blogs/posts about finances? Leave the links in the comments, let me know so I can post them, or become an author so you can write a post yourself.