So, my daughter is now a week old and some routines are finally starting to appear at home. Now there are four of us. Half of the people in this house wear diapers.

Mutual Funds For Wise Bloggers This is a very solid one-shot introduction to the world of mutual funds. My general advice is to just get a low-cost index fund and not sweat it. (@ wise bread)

How To Feed Yourself For $15 A Week This is a great complementary piece to my one last week on ways to reduce food costs. (@ get rich slowly)

Do Your Routines Help Create Wealth and Happiness? This is a spectacularly useful filter for evaluting one’s own behavior. Does it make you happy or does it make you rich? If neither is true, what are you doing? (@ money smart life)

The Simple Dollar Retro: Looking At The Costs And Benefits Of Installing A Wind Turbine I used the numbers in my local area for electricity and wind and decided that it did make sense in rural Iowa, but perhaps not elsewhere. That’s likely why there are so many wind farms popping up around here.