Weekly Favorites and Gratitude!

My Favorite Posts this Week

• Everyday Tips and Thoughts with Learn to Say “No”!  Your Time Belongs to YOU, Not Anybody Else  This is just good advice.
• Eventual Millionaire with How Much Do Errands REALLY Cost You?  I completely understand looking at a trip in terms of gas costs…
• Fiscal Geek with Your Mom Called, Here’s What She Wants for Mother’s Day  Oh so true…parents appreciate your time.
• Darwin’s Finance with Is Putting in a Swimming Pool Worth It?  I don’t think it is, but I loved his breakdown.
• Funny about Money with Beer Substitute!  I don’t like beer, but this looks tasty to me.
• Frugal Scholar with Advice and Cereal: Frugal Friends  I thought the Neptune Society was an interesting piece of advice.
• Ultimate Money Blog with Putting Money First  It’s a tough decision to stay for the cash or back away for the mental sanity…

Blog Carnivals that Included BFS

• Live Real Now hosted the Festival of Frugality and chose Fit in a Fun Friday – The Library
• Well-Heeled Blog hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance and chose Helpful Financial Lessons for Children
• Carnival of Money Stories hosted itself and chose The Feeling of Being Debt Free
• Nerd Wallet hosted the Money Hacks Carnival and chose Retirement Savings
• Little House in the Valley hosted the Yakezie Carnival and chose Spending Less Than You Earn
• Don’t Mess with Taxes hosted the Tax Carnival and chose 5 Tax Myth Article Seemed Wrong To Me

Thanks! I appreciate all the time hosts spent on this process.  It’s a great feeling to be chosen!

Carnival hosts, if BFS is in a blog carnival that you are running, please email me the link so it can be added to this weekly list. Thanks!

Guest Posts on BFS

No guest posts this week, but if you would like to submit a guest post to BFS, please shoot me an idea or the actual post.  I’d also appreciate a one or two sentence introduction for the piece.  I’ll get back to you quickly and will give you as much advance notice as possible on its posting date.

Other Info

• Jackie at Money Crush is hosting a $100 Contest until May 12th in honor of the debt snowball app she created.  Please take a look!
• Mrs. Frugal at Cool to be Frugal is having a PUR Water Filtration System Giveaway until tomorrow, May 9th!  She’s giving away one PUR Water Filtration System that includes one disposable filter!
• Free From Broke is having a Magic Jack Giveaway until May 14th!  He’s giving away a Magic Jack and 1 year of service!
• Brad at Enemy of Debt is hosting a fund-raiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters.  He’s selling the “I’m Debt Free” game and giving 100% of his commission until August 7th to Big Brothers Big Sisters!

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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