Weekly Favorites and Gratitude!

My Favorite Posts this Week

• Get Rich Slowly with Life After Debt:  What It’s Like in the Third Stage of Personal Finance  I LOVE posts like this because personal finance has to include fun too.  Once all your real ducks are in a row, why not have some fun?
• Rainy-Day Saver with Take Control of Your Finances — Today!  A great place to start if you have some debt to tackle.
• Everyday Tips and Thoughts with How Smells Can Revive Old Memories For Me  This week has been a good one for nostalgia.
• Money Reasons with Frugal Steps to Take For Our Vacation  I love audio books and my in-laws are the sweetest people and take care of our dogs.
• Money Crush with Are You Undervaluing Your Skills?  I know I do but its because I have no idea if what I do is a skill or just normal in any given situation…
• Len Penzo with Walking the Walk: My $114,000 Challenge to Uncle Sam  As a 27 year old, I’d be willing to just let them have my contributions to this point if I could opt out…
• Studenomics with Kill Overdraft Fees With These Tips  If you have overdraft fees issues, this is how to knock it off.
• Free Money Finance with Are Tattoos at Work Really That Acceptable?  I don’t mind tattoos, do you?
• Debt Vigilante with Extravagant Frugality  I have to support a post that’s so close to my own philosophy – save, invest, pay your bills, and have some fun.
• No Debt Plan with 3 Tips to Maintain Focus on Your Financial Goals  Accountability is my favorite one…that’s why I tell you guys everything.  You’ll be sure to tell me when I’m making mistakes! 

Blog Carnivals that Featured BFS

• Money Help for Christians hosted the Yakezie Carnival and chose I’m Behind the Times
• Ditch the Boss hosted the Financial Independence Compilation and chose 10 Signs of Debt Storms Ahead

Thanks for putting your time into these carnivals! I truly appreciate being included!

Carnival hosts, please email me if BFS is in a carnival you are hosting so I can be sure to add it to the list. Thanks!

BFS Guest Posts on Other Blogs

• Engineer Your Finances with Financial Mistakes of Young Families
• Punch Debt in the Face with Job Hunting Mistakes I REALLY Hope You Don’t Make
• Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance with No Debt if I Was a Doctor

Thanks so much for having me over for the day!

Fellow bloggers, if you would like a guest post from BFS, please shoot me an email. I usually have a couple of weeks of posts ready in advance so I could probably help out.

Other Info

• A Gai Shan Life is hosting a Wee Purse Giveaway until August 16th!  It’s a really cute purse IMHO and would make a great gift (to yourself or otherwise, lol)!
• I am a staff writer at Sweating the Big Stuff. You can see my posts every Wednesday – this week’s was 10 Unnecessary Expenses.

Feel free to email 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 I am!

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