Weekly Favorites, Gratitude, and Giveaways #86

Weekly Updates

• We are hosting our first real housewarming / Halloween party today.  Woot!!!  I’ll post some pics of the house and party next week hopefully!
• My How I Make Money Blogging ebook has started selling way slower, but it did have a great run, lol! 
• As normal, sign up for my newsletter (in the right sidebar) —-> to be able to enter the separate giveaway that I host for subscribers only every month! Plus, I share things in the newsletter that I no longer share here (hint…what do you think happened to my monthly income reports)…

Weekly Favorites

• Len Penzo with What Barfing Out of a Bus Window Teaches Us About Managing Money  The title draws you in, right?
• My Multiple Streams with How Google’s Monopoly Affects Lives  I hate Google PR and how they play with it.
• Free Money Finance with What is the Main Reason for Your Financial Success?  Luck and tons of hours of work…
• Canadian Budget Binder with What Products To Stockpile For Maternity Leave  Diapers, diapers, diapers…
• Live Real Now with Car Dilemma  I vote Mini-Van.
• Budgets are Sexy with I May Have Just Quit Lottery Tickets (*gasp!*)  Say it ain’t so, lol.
• Beating Broke with Ready to Buy a Home—Really?  Yes. 
• Sweating the Big Stuff with Which is Worse: Feeling Guilty About a Spending or Regretting Missing Out On An Experience?  Both suck…I try to prioritize so we don’t have to miss out on the most important things…
• Dollarversity with Worry About Money Not Your “Image”  YES
• Money Beagle with Two Cats Is Plenty, Thank You  Two dogs is plenty too…

My Co-Owned Sites

This section used to be at the bottom of this weekly roundup because it feels weird to promote my own co-owned sites. BUT these posts are written by our absolutely fantastic staff writers – Libby Balke and Natalie Spring.

Check them out, they really have great writing styles and senses of humor. These are real people providing awesome posts for everyone to read! They truly make our sites amazing and I just need to say thank you!

• Money in the 20′s with Are You A Cheap Date?
• Go Be Rich with Target vs. Walmart: Faceoff!
• Smart Money Focus with We’ve Got The Money, Now What?
• Richly Reasonable with Savings on Fall Fun

Guest Posts at BFS

• Eyes on the Dollar with My Southern, Gun-Toting Granny – Lessons on Life, Money, and Entrepreneurship
• Reader Profile Friday: My Pen Writes Red

Thank you!

Giveaways

• Manteresting is hosting a HUGE HALLOWEEN CONTEST GIVEAWAY – Check it Out until October 31!!!
• Modest Money is hosting a Canvas Print and Business Card Giveaway until October 31!
• Money Life and More is hosting a How I Make Money Giveaway until October 31!
• Donna Freedman is hosting an HIMMB Giveaway until October 30!

Please let me know if you are running a giveaway so I can add you to the list each week! If you already emailed me and don’t see your giveaway, it isn’t on purpose. Please email me again as your first email must have died a horrid death in my inbox of all kinds of crap…

Blog Carnivals

• Y and T’s Weekend Ramblings at Young and Thrifty
• Canadian PF Happy Hour at Canadian Personal Finance
• Carn. of Financial Camaraderie at My University Money
• Yakezie Carnival at Portfolio Princess
• Carnival of MoneyPros at Thirty Six Months

Thanks!

Top 10 Referring Sites to BFS from the Last Week:

1. Get Rich Slowly
2. Free Money Finance
3. So Over This
4. Funny about Money
5. Budgets Are Sexy
6. Len Penzo
7. Enemy of Debt
8. First Gen American
9. I Got Outta Debt
10. Making Sense of Cents

Thank you!

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!

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