Weekly Favorites, Gratitude, and Giveaways #55

Weekly Updates

• I spent last weekend in L.A. with Suba from Wealth Informatics and a bunch of other bloggers.  It was awesome but I am still playing catchup, lol.
• I also just bought my ticket to FINCON12!!!  WOOT!!!
• 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 My ACL Reconstruction Recovery – And Some Tips For Dealing With Post-Surgery Life  This is some awesome advice for recovering from any surgery.
• Money Reasons with Are We Losing Our Ability To Think Independently?  This drives me nuts.
• Wealth Informatics with Tax planning for 2012 : What changed, what stayed the same and what you should be aware of?  Take notes!
• Confessions from a Working Mom with Shhhhhhh!  You know she loves him since he is still alive.
• First Gen American with Cutting Babci’s Hair with Dog Clippers  Still laughing and I read it days ago.
• Money Talks with How to Win at Monopoly and Real Life  I’m at that risk stage…
• Out on the Veranda with RSVP  I love a good vent.
• Earn Save Live with Why I Love Being an Expat in Australia  We lived overseas when I was in highschool…my favorite part was the cool animals I saw in Argentina that I couldn’t see here.
• Newlyweds on a Budget with How do you talk about money with your husband?  We chat about changes and sit down and work out major budget changes together – then he leaves all the bookkeeping up to me, lol.
• Live Real Now with My First Major Side Hustle  Good partners make everything easier.

Guest Posts at BFS

• Off-Road Finance with It’s Vegas Baby!
• The Happy Homeowner with How Balance Transfer Roulette Almost Landed Me in the Crazy House
• Your Finances Simplified with 5 Tips on How to Improve Your Credit Score

Thank you all!

Giveaways

• 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

• Prairie Ecothrifter hosted the Yakezie Carnival and included Really!?! You Can’t Fix Stupid
• Family Money Values hosted the Totally Money Blog Carnival and included  Learning to Manage Your Finances Early
• Diva in Debt hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance and included Our First Mortgage Payoff Update
• Credit Cards Canada hosted the Carnival of Financial Planning and included What My Knee Taught me About Risk and Reward
• Financial Success for Young Adults hosted the WTF Edition of the Carnival of Financial Camraderie and included I Visited a Psychic Monk – You Read that Right
• Little House in the Valley hosted the Yakezie Carnival and included I Visited a Psychic Monk – You Read that Right
• Retire by 40 hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance and included Truly Budgeting in the Fun Stuff

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. Get Rich Slowly
2. Yakezie
3. Free Money Finance
4. Forbes
5. No More Spending

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!

My Other Sites

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