Weekly Favorites, Gratitude, and Giveaways #94

Weekly Updates

• MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!  I’m celebrating with friends and family.  Hope you are having a heck of a good time too!
• I have a variety of sites up for sale including Dining Out Challenge and a group of six static sites about insurance, taxes, etc (group of six super cheap!) . Please email me if you are interested. Don’t worry, I am not going anywhere – just want to concentrate on BFS and my 5 other co-owned sites more.
• Remember to 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

• Making Sense of Cents with Christmas and the Costs  I’ve been exercising more myself. 
• Planting Our Pennies with A Love Hate Relationship With An Older Home  The big lots are really nice.
• Check out Take Our Stuff, a site from the creators of Love Drop that looks pretty awesome!
• Free Money Finance with FMF $25k Red Kettle Challenge  Go, Baby, Go!
• Thriftability with Fiverr: What will YOU do for $5?  I bought my holiday banner from Fiverr…Nisha is awesome. 
• The College Investor with Socially Responsible Investing: Where’s Your Limit?  I can’t support cigarette companies…
• My Multiple Incomes with 6 Financial Tips for the End of the Year  I need to do a goals update post next week…
• Kids Ain’t Cheap with Keeping Santa Alive  I never believed in Santa to my knowledge, but my mom did explain the spirit of Christmas and told me that telling other kids about the lack of Santa would be mean, so I kept it like a secret between me and the adults…
• Entrepreneurship Life with Does Your Business Need a Company Blog?  If it does and you need a writer, let me know. 
• Evolving PF with Zillions of Gifts, on a Budget  I’m a big fan of books.

Guest Posts at BFS

• Reader Profile Friday: I Got Outta Debt

Thank you!

Posts on Co-Owned Sites

• Money in the 20s with My Artificial Christmas Tree Is Ruining The Economy
• Smart Money Focus with The Flip Side of Giving Money to Family
• Modern Tightwad with What??? I Paid $3.93 To Use The Internet… For 5 Minutes
• Go Be Rich with Save Money On Children’s Clothing
• Dining Out Challenge with Do Leftovers Play A Role In Your Dining Budget?
• Richly Reasonable with Pain at the Pump – State Gas Taxes

Giveaways

• Prairie Ecothrifter is cohosting an Apple iPad3 Giveaway until December 28!

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…

Blog Carnivals

• Carnival of Retirement at Investing Money
• Carnival of MoneyPros at Making Sense of Cents

Thanks!

Top 10 Referring Sites to BFS from the Last Week:

1. Free Money Finance
2. The Financial Blogger
3. Get Rich Slowly
4. WiseBread
5. Making Sense of Cents
6. Planting Our Pennies
7. Len Penzo
8. First Gen American
9. Household Budget Geek
10. Money Life and More

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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