Weekly Favorites, Gratitude, and Giveaways #54

Weekly Updates

• Last Wednesday I tagged along with my friend, Rachel, to visit a monk psychic…you’ll read about it next week, lol. 
• I have a January Giveaway for $100 going on right now.
• Sign up for my newsletter (in the right sidebar) —-> to be able to enter the separate $50 giveaway that I host for subscribers only every month! Plus, I promise my weekly newsletter is good – quick, fun, and not a huge link list. I also write a little about myself every week and answer reader questions!

My Favorite Posts this Week

• Everyday Tips and Thoughts with Perhaps A Darwin Award Is In My Future?  OUCH!
• Money Reasons with Another Financially Tight Start of The New Year  Savings is a better reason than most to feel broke.
• Wealth Informatics with Stay at home or to work : What is the financial & professional price?  Great break down!
• Daily Money Shot with It’s not easy but it’s right  I wish the cat would have liked living inside, but it’s sweet none-the-less.
• First Gen American with How to Take a Break from Toxic People  Great advice.
• Live Real Now with Deathbed Regrets  I wish my younger, stupider self hadn’t taken so long to grow out of.
• Mike and Molly’s House with Money, Expenses and a Corrupted File  That sucks.
• The Single Saver with Save Your Money – Don’t Buy These Kitchen Gadgets  I disagree about the rice maker, lol.
• So Over Debt with Is Altruism a Bad Thing?  No, it isn’t.  Yeah, we’ll get bitten, but it’s better to be a good person that gets used than to be the user in my opinion.  Just also remember to cut out the toxic people when it is obvious.
• Jai Catalano with How to Budget in the Fun Stuff  Okay, so as I have said before, flattery will get you everywhere. 

Guest Posts at BFS

• Afford Anything with What My Knee Taught Me About Risk and Reward
• Fun with English with Impulse Shopping and Discount Chocolate

Thank you two!

Giveaways

• Well-Heeled Blog is hosting a Ghirardelli Gourmet Milk Chocolate Giveaway until January 21st.
• Cash Flow Mantra is hosting a $150 Cash Giveaway until January 25th.
• The College Investor is hosting a Super Fan $300 Giveaway until January 31st.
• Maximizing Money is hosting a Free Promotional Keychain Giveaway until January 31st.
• My Personal Finance Journey is hosting a $100 Give Back Giveaway until January 31st.

Blog Carnivals

• Wealth Pilgrim hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance and included Board Gaming in the New Year
• Magical Penny hosted the Festival of Frugality and included Vegas on a Budget
• My University Money hosted the Carnival of Financial Camaraderie and included Cars Are Depreciating Assets

If you are hosting a carnival that includes Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, please email me so I can include it in my roundup. Thanks!

Top 5 Referring Sites to BFS from Last Week:

1. Free Money Finance
2. Yakezie
3. PT Money
4. Get Rich Slowly
5. The Saved Quarter

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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