Weekly Favorites, Gratitude, and Giveaways #15

March 12, 2011, at 6:00 am

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My Favorite Posts this Week

Everyday Tips and Thoughts with Ways Kids Are Expensive That I Never Thought Of (Until I Had Them…) I cost my parents a pretty penny with all my band stuff…
First Gen American with Why I’m Getting Umbrella Insurance That’s just plain scary for me since we throw potlucks all the time!
Money Reasons with Thinking Before Paying To Save Money I love Freecycle!
Squirrelers with The Self-Employed Dream Could Be A Budget Nightmare – 5 Tips To Avoid That hard-to-take-a-vacation thing could be a problem…
Grumpy Rumblings of the Untenured with Will I ever want a second child? I’m still waiting to want one, lol.
Funny About Money with Hemorrhaging Money! I have had those months…
KNS Financial with Why A One Day Gas Boycott Wont Lower Gas Prices I’m just glad someone brought this up…
Invest It Wisely with The Most Important Lesson I Learned from My First Love The power of believing in myself is pushing me to write this at 11:30pm Friday night…
Len Penzo with Why It Sometimes Takes a Real Daredevil to Get the Best Deals I’m a real risk taker with my non-organic bananas…
Retire by 40 with What $1 Buy – $151 Million Dollars Mega Million Jackpot!!! That would be more than enough to cover our charities and dream home!

Guest Posts at BFS

Beating Broke contributed Keeping Kids Involved in Family Finances

Thank you for a day off!

If you would like to guest post on BFS, please contact me with your idea or post and I’d love to have you over for the day! If you are a business, please contact me here for more details. Thanks!

Giveaways and Other Info

Life And My Finances is celebrating debt freedom with a $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway until March 15th!
Stoopid Success included me in his own roundup/carnival and included 10 tips to reduce healthcare expenses .
I am a staff writer for Sweating the Big Stuff on Tuesdays and posted 5 Tips to Save Money on Housing.

Blog Carnivals

Money Beagle hosted the Festival of Frugality and included Our Homeowners Insurance as an Editor’s Pick!!!
My Personal Finance Journey hosted the Totally Money Blog Carnival and included 10 Tips to Reduce Healthcare Expenses
Fabulously Broke hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance and included Hiding Spending
Squirrelers hosted the Carnival of Money Stories and included Living Cheaply in College

My carnival – Totally Money Blog Carnival – was all Funny Babies
at My Personal Finance Journey!
Please check out the last edition and submit here every week!

If you are hosting a carnival that includes Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, please email me so I can include it in my roundup. Also, please email me if you’d like to host Totally Money. Thanks!

Top 5 Referring Sites to BFS within the Last Week:
I Post the top 25 on the first Saturday of every month.

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!