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There is a blog for everything now it seems, even outrageous things like a party planning blog where people put their ideas for parties like themes, food and music. Blogs like these are great because it's like getting together with your best friends to talk about planning ideas, yet you made a whole lot more friends. You can get ideas from so many different people, like on partyplanningthoguhts and you can also share your ideas so that other people can hear them. It's so easy to go on the internet and look something like this up online than to go to a store and have to spend money on a book full of ideas. These ideas are original and tried and true. You can hear about great ideas and also what went wrong so you can prevent those mistakes at your own party.

Another weird but great blog is a blog about banking. There is one called www.bankingthoughts.com which is full of people's thoughts and experiences about banking. People from all over the world with more and less experience with money and banking than you describe their financial plan and thoughts online for you to read and learn from. They talk about seniors having to go back to work and college students using credit cards. The subjects are endless and something on that website is bound to be an experience you have had or will run into, like social security. It is nice to know that other people out there are going through similar things and are sharing their experiences with you openly.

One of the blogs that we had to go on for our financial planning class is called homemarketthoughts. This real estate market blog showed me and the students in my class about the realities of home owning and all the aspects that go along with it. Everything from getting your home ready for the winter, to insuring your home and belongings to foreclosure and the reality of the market today is on the blog.

Blogs are a great way for real people to communicate with other real people going through the same experiences and to learn from what they have gone through and may have done right or wrong. They are also a way to see that you are not the only one going through something and that there are other people out there (a lot of them) who can support you.