Why I Am Writing This Late last June, a few weeks before I joined Yakezie, and right about the time we were receiving the last of C’s unemployment checks, I wrote In Defense of 99 Weeks of Unemployment. It was not a subject I really expected to revisit, but even though the unemployment rate and votes for emergency extensions of unemployment benefits are no longer part of the daily news cycle, it is still something thatread more…
Not that I don’t love all of the blogs I regularly read, but this week I was looking for something a little different, something new. So I headed over the Yakezie member forums and went to see who the new challengers were. So today, I have six new (or at least new to me and to Yakezie) to share with you. I hope you enjoy them. We start with a Family Bucket List over atread more…
For those of you who are not already mired in the world of personal finance blogs (ie my friends and family who read this), you may have noticed a new badge over on my sidebar this week. (Okay, so you all would have noticed, but you PF people already know what it’s about.) The badge is the Bloggers Give Back badge, and it is a movement started by my dear friend Jana over at Daily Moneyread more…
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…
