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February 4, 2012, at 6:00 am If you're new to BFS, please subscribe to my RSS feed. It shows me a vote of support and keeps me motivated to keep your attention. If you have any questions or comments for me, please contact me and I'll get back to you asap. Thanks for visiting! Weekly Updates
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This was Mr. BFS’s second full week working from home and so far, so good. 
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Sign up for my newsletter (in the right sidebar) —-> to be able to enter the separate $50 giveaway that I host for subscribers only every month! Plus, I promise my weekly newsletter is good – quick, fun, and not a huge link list. I also write a little about myself every week and answer reader questions!
My Favorite Posts this Week
Guest Posts at BFS
Thank you all!
Guest Post from BFS
Giveaways
Blog Carnivals
If you are hosting a carnival that includes Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, please email me so I can include it in my roundup. Thanks!
Top 25 Referring Sites to BFS from Last Month:
- Get Rich Slowly
- Yakezie
- Free Money Finance
- PT Money
- The Saved Quarter
- Afford Anything
- Frugal Dad
- Invest in the Markets
- Funny About Money
- Debt Free by Thirty
- My Own Advisor
- First Gen American
- Retire by 40
- Budgets Are Sexy
- Newlyweds on a Budget
- Faith and Finance
- Erin Shanendoah
- Smart Passive Income
- Jai Catalano
- Money Reasons
- The Single Saver
- No More Spending
- Forbes
- Sweating the Big Stuff
- Free Money Wisdom
Feel free to contact me if you have any suggestions. I’d love to add a few more blogs to my regular reading list or at least give a shout-out for great posts or contests.
As always, thanks to all the bloggers that teach me something new every day. Thanks to all my commenters for making this blog the community I want it to be. Thanks to all my lurkers too. 
I hope everybody is enjoying this as much as me!
My Other Sites
I have started a new site, How I Make Money Blogging!
Let me know what you think!
January 29, 2012, at 4:14 pm
I love being a blogger. One of the many reasons it kicks butt is that I am sometimes approached by companies I like and am asked to review their product, tell you all about it, and then they even give me something to give away to one of you! For example, have you ever heard about Ghirardelli?
I heart chocolate. A lot. So when I was offered a sample of Ghirardelli’s three newest offerings, I jumped at it. And let me tell you, they are all yummy!
Sea Salt Escape – Milk chocolate with sea salt and roasted almonds:
This was surprisingly good. I don’t usually like fad-like changes to a good thing, but the sea salt is light enough to nicely meld with the chocolate and the almonds. My husband and I agreed that it is good, better than the cheaper chocolate you can find, but it is not as good as the next two.
Coconut Rendezvous – Milk chocolate with roasted coconut:
Picture a creamy chocolate square with bits of crunchy coconut mixed in. It is decadent. I tried to nibble slowly but the chocolate is so creamy that it quickly started melting between my thumb and finger. This is my husband’s favorite of the three samples. I think it is delicious too, but my favorite is below.
Creamy Devotion with 32% Cacao – Simple milk chocolate:
It is just yummy. Creamy, smooth, tasty…awesome chocolate. I do not usually buy any expensive candies or chocolates on a regular basis, but I found long ago that my taste buds wanted something richer than Hershey’s kisses. That said, I have tried some very awesome brands of basic chocolate and I can honestly say that Ghirardelli’s Creamy Devotion is a comparably inexpensive replacement to my “good stuff”.
Chocolate Giveaway
Now to the fun part. I requested two sample packs – one for me to base my review on and another for one of you to win! Yay – free chocolate!!! This means I will be mailing the winner the three sample bars of the Ghirardelli types I described above.
Instructions:
1. Leave a comment below by February 12th, 2012 and you will be entered to win!
Yep, it really is that easy. If you’d like a suggestion for your comment, what is your favorite treat and why?
Thank you!!!
The official stuff:
1) Contest ends February 12th, 2011 at 11:59pm Central Standard time.
2) ONLY ONE COMMENT/ENTRY PER PERSON.
3) The winner will be selected randomly and notified by email and asked for their address so I can mail this out to them. If you do not want to divulge your address, please do not enter this giveaway as I cannot magically send it to you otherwise.
4) The prize will be held for 2 calendar days. If it isn’t claimed, a new winner will be randomly selected and contacted.
5) I reserve the right to reject comments that I consider spam or invalid entries.
6) An invalid or incorrect email address automatically disqualifies you from the drawing…it’s hard to contact a fake email…
7) Local laws, rules, and regulations apply.
January 28, 2012, at 6:00 am
Weekly Updates
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I also just bought my ticket to FINCON12!!! WOOT!!!
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Sign up for my newsletter (in the right sidebar) —-> to be able to enter the separate $50 giveaway that I host for subscribers only every month! Plus, I promise my weekly newsletter is good – quick, fun, and not a huge link list. I also write a little about myself every week and answer reader questions!
My Favorite Posts this Week
Guest Posts at BFS
Thank you all!
Giveaways
Blog Carnivals
If you are hosting a carnival that includes Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, please email me so I can include it in my roundup. Thanks!
Top 5 Referring Sites to BFS from Last Week:
- Get Rich Slowly
- Yakezie
- Free Money Finance
- Forbes
- No More Spending
Feel free to contact me if you have any suggestions. I’d love to add a few more blogs to my regular reading list or at least give a shout-out for great posts or contests.
As always, thanks to all the bloggers that teach me something new every day. Thanks to all my commenters for making this blog the community I want it to be. Thanks to all my lurkers too.
I hope everybody is enjoying this as much as me!
My Other Sites
I have started a new site, How I Make Money Blogging!
Let me know what you think!
January 14, 2012, at 11:30 pm
Weekly Updates
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Last Wednesday I tagged along with my friend, Rachel, to visit a monk psychic…you’ll read about it next week, lol.
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Sign up for my newsletter (in the right sidebar) —-> to be able to enter the separate $50 giveaway that I host for subscribers only every month! Plus, I promise my weekly newsletter is good – quick, fun, and not a huge link list. I also write a little about myself every week and answer reader questions!
My Favorite Posts this Week
Guest Posts at BFS
Thank you two!
Giveaways
Blog Carnivals
If you are hosting a carnival that includes Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, please email me so I can include it in my roundup. Thanks!
Top 5 Referring Sites to BFS from Last Week:
- Free Money Finance
- Yakezie
- PT Money
- Get Rich Slowly
- The Saved Quarter
Feel free to contact me if you have any suggestions. I’d love to add a few more blogs to my regular reading list or at least give a shout-out for great posts or contests.
As always, thanks to all the bloggers that teach me something new every day. Thanks to all my commenters for making this blog the community I want it to be. Thanks to all my lurkers too.
I hope everybody is enjoying this as much as me!
My Other Sites
I have started a new site, How I Make Money Blogging!
Let me know what you think!
January 7, 2012, at 6:00 am
Weekly Updates
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I took off last two weekends for Christmas and New Year’s, so this Weekly Favorites is playing catchup.
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Christmas was awesome! My husband and I got to spend time with family and friends the whole weekend and had a blast. I think our gifts went over very well and we received a bunch of thoughtful ones too.
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We partied in the New Year with fellow board gamers and had a blast like usual. Hope your holiday season treated you well too!
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Sign up for my newsletter (in the right sidebar) —-> to be able to enter the separate $50 giveaway that I host for subscribers only every month! Plus, I promise my weekly newsletter is good – quick, fun, and not a huge link list. I also write a little about myself every week and answer reader questions!
My Favorite Posts this Week
Guest Posts at BFS
Thank you all!!!
I Staff Write at…
Giveaways
Blog Carnivals
If you are hosting a carnival that includes Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, please email me so I can include it in my roundup. Thanks!
Top 25 Referring Sites to BFS from Last Month:
- Free Money Finance
- Frugal Dad
- Get Rich Slowly
- Consumerist
- Afford Anything
- Yakezie
- The Saved Quarter
- PT Money
- Young and Thrifty
- First Gen American
- Invest in the Markets
- Sweating the Big Stuff
- Newlyweds on a Budget
- Debt Free by Thirty
- Invest It Wisely
- Financially Consumed
- Free Money Wisdom
- Broke Professionals
- Mom’s Plans
- Budgets Are Sexy
- Funny About Money
- Maldivian Finance
- Retire by 40
- Deneil Merritt
- The Single Saver
Feel free to contact me if you have any suggestions. I’d love to add a few more blogs to my regular reading list or at least give a shout-out for great posts or contests.
As always, thanks to all the bloggers that teach me something new every day. Thanks to all my commenters for making this blog the community I want it to be. Thanks to all my lurkers too.
I hope everybody is enjoying this as much as me!
My Other Sites
I have started a new site, How I Make Money Blogging!
Let me know what you think!
January 4, 2012, at 6:00 am
I really enjoyed hosting the last two giveaways, so I’ve decided to make them a regular occurence here at BFS. I have no idea if they will all be the same or not, but for now I am keeping them comment-oriented. If you’d like to subscribe to my RSS feed, follow me on Twitter, like me on Facebook, or subscribe to my newsletter, please feel free to take a gander at my right sidebar and sign up at will. I always appreciate it, but you don’t have to do it to win. Although signing up for any of those will help you know when I post giveaways in the future, lol.
In hopes of an awesome 2012, this giveaway will be for $100 via Paypal or Amazon (your choice):
Instructions:
1. Leave a comment below by January 25th, 2012 and you will be entered to win!
Yep, it really is that easy. If you’d like a suggestion for your comment, let me know if you would prefer that I offer one $100 prize in months to come, two $50 prizes, or four $25 prizes? That will help me to decide how to do this in the future for you all.
Please consider this my thank you for your continued support!!!
The official stuff:
1) Contest ends January 25th, 2011 at 11:59pm Central Standard time.
2) ONLY ONE COMMENT/ENTRY PER PERSON.
3) The winner will be selected randomly and notified by email. If you select Paypal as the prize, you will need to have a Paypal account.
4) The prize will be held for 2 calendar days. If it isn’t claimed, a new winner will be randomly selected and contacted.
5) I reserve the right to reject comments that I consider spam or invalid entries.
6) An invalid or incorrect email address automatically disqualifies you from the drawing…it’s hard to contact a fake email…
7) Local laws, rules, and regulations apply.
December 21, 2011, at 6:00 am
Thanks to you all, the Christmas Cash and Charity Giveaway was a fun success!!!
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Without further ado, the charity with the most votes was…
I have sent them $100 on behalf of the “Supporters of Budgeting in the Fun Stuff”!!! Thank you all so much for voting and I am glad we could help out any charity together this month!!!
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And the winner of the $100 Christmas Cash was…
Commenter #16 – Michelle!!!
She has been emailed and will be selecting her prize type – either a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate or $100 in Paypal’d cash.
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Future Giveaways
My plan is to hold at least one giveaway a month here on BFS from here on out! This will be on top of the monthly giveaway that I’ve been hosting for my newsletter subscribers. So please stay tuned in here and look into subscribing to my weekly newsletter if you haven’t already! The form is in the right sidebar. If you are already a subscriber, thank you!
Congratulations to the Alzheimer’s Association and Michelle! Merry Christmas to Everyone!!!
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