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Category Archive: Round Ups

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What I Read: New to Me Edition

One of my goals for 2012 is to be better about sharing what I’ve been reading. While I’d like to promise I’d do this every Saturday, that’s a promise I’m not sure I can keep past C’s first quarter of school (when he will have a Saturday class, so I will be home with nothing to do but post links to other blogs). So I am going to aim for developing the habit during this firstread more…

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11 Links to Finish Off 2011 #yakezie

2011 has been a great year for me. I started this personal finance blog, my third blog, and it has grown faster than either of the others, thanks mostly to the Yakezie network and the amazing people I’ve met over there. I don’t do blog round ups as often as I feel like I should. I promise to try and get better about that in 2012. But what that means is that there have been someread more…

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Birthday Week Links

I am starting with this bit from the pet blogging world. If you are one of those (few) people who reads both my pet blog and this one, I’m sorry for the repeat, but this is too important for me not to post on multiple times., and I know the personal finance blog world is full of generous people who love animals. So… The wonderful family at Kissa-Bull lost their home and almost everything they own,read more…

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Monday Round-Up

I always mean to do a Round-Up on a Saturday, but then the weekend comes and I’m either too busy running around or too busy relaxing to want to do a link intensive post. It’s a failing of mine, I admit. But today I’m stuck in front of a computer with not a whole lot going on, so Round-Up, here we come. Convenient Couponing (and other ways to save time and money) Beating Broke kicks usread more…

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Tangents My Mind Follows (Blogroll)

Jana over at DailyMoney $hot has her own shiny new domain. You should go visit her and tellher how awesome she is, because she is. While you’re there, make sure you read the guest post fromNiki at Debt Free By Thirty, whoencourages us to StopStoring and Organizing and Just Get Rid of Your Stuff. If you read my lastpost with my 7 goals for the rest of this year, you know this is something Ineed toread more…

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Baking the Budget’s Blog Round-Up

I’d originally planned for this post to go up Monday, and then Wednesday, and then… Well, life got in the way this week, so my blog round up is a few days later than I’d intended. Still, that means there’s more great posts to choose from. So, in case you’re wondering, here’s what I’ve been reading these past couple of weeks. Student Edition (because my dear cousin, who has been staying with us for the summer,read more…

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Baking the Budget’s First Blog Round Up

As part of the Yakezie challenge, I’m being introduced to some great new blogs and I wanted to share some of my favorite posts with my readers, so here’s the first Baking the Budget roundup. Beating Broke wrote about treating the US Government like a regular Joe when it comes to budget issues Brave New Life talks about why to stop worrying about investing and just start saving Daily Money Shot writes about the importance ofread more…