The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

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Sunday Evening Post #59

Day Amount Place Category Monday $38.00 FinCon Allowance $2,233.00 Car Service Car $45.50 CostCo Groceries $4.75 Safeway Groceries Tuesday $100.00 Charity Misc Wednesday $25.00 FinCon Allowance Thursday $33.45 Outback Eating Out $6.50 Half Price Books Allowance Saturday $71.00 CostCo Groceries Well, if you ignore the ridiculous amount we spent on the 80k miles service on our car, spending this week wasn’t bad at all. And we do plan for the car costs. We knew what thisread more…

Date: 02/09/2012 Author: Tags: , , , Category: Everyday Finances, Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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What I’m Reading: #Yakezie Team 2 edition

I love the teams over at Yakezie. I am now on my 4th (maybe 5th) team. Each time, I get a whole bunch of great new blogs to read and bloggers to interact with. Special thank you to Suba who sets this up, and who is, for the first time, a member of my team this time round. Yay! In fact, with one exception, every blog on my team this January is new to me. Theread more…

Date: 04/02/2012 Author: Tags: , , , , , , , , Category: Round Ups Bookmark: Permalink
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Encouraging Your Child’s Inner Entrepenuer

It’s a Blog Swap! Today’s topic is How to raise a millionaire – developing your child’s entrepreneurial aptitude. I am very excited to be swapping blogs with Money for College Project, where they recently changed their focus from paying for their own college costs to saving for college for their soon to be child. I hope you enjoy this take on the topic, and don’t forget to hop on over to Money for College Project toread more…

Date: 20/01/2012 Author: Tags: , , , Category: On the Job, Round Ups Bookmark: Permalink
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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…

Date: 07/01/2012 Author: Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , Category: life by pets, Round Ups Bookmark: Permalink
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Self-Promotion as a Process (part 2)

This is part 2 of a long post about self-promotion. Click here for part 1 Even beyond my fiction writing, I am not great at self-promotion for my blogs and online writing projects. I have mentioned here before that I have two other blogs (a daily micro-blog and a pet blog) and host a weekly/monthly micro-fiction contest. I always feel self-conscious about doing so, but how can I let people know those places exist if Iread more…

Date: 03/01/2012 Author: Tags: , , , , , , , Category: Lessons Learned, Writing Bookmark: Permalink
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Blog Swap: What give you the most value?

It’s a Blog Swap! Today, we’re answering the question “What do you spend money on that brings you the most value.” Below is  a guest post from Erika at Newlyweds on a Budget. Erika blogs about managing finances in a relationship. Make sure to hop on over to her blog to read how I answered the question. For more fun, go on over to Narrow Bridge Finance for a round up of all the posts in this blog swap. And be sureread more…

Date: 16/12/2011 Author: Tags: , , , , Category: Guest Post, Inspired by, Pet Finances Bookmark: Permalink
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Yakezie update

Okay, after just one week, my Alexa rank is down to under 3.25 million. Cut in half already. Now I just need to do that again another 4 times

Date: 28/07/2011 Author: Tags: , Category: Uncategorized Bookmark: Permalink
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An Introduction of Sorts

I started this blog with the assumption that the only people who read it would be people who already knew me. But now that I’ve joined the Yakezie Challenge, I figured that maybe I should introduce myself. Since this is a personal finances blog, lets stick with the things that are most relevant to that. Demographics: Mid-30s, married, 2 dogs, homeowner (or mortgage holder, whatever you want to call it), 2 cars- both paid for, livingread more…

Date: 26/07/2011 Author: Tags: , , , Category: Debt, Lessons Learned Bookmark: Permalink
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Yakezie Challenge

I’ve joined the Yakezie challenge, since Jana over at Daily Money Shot seems to be so happy she did. My current Alexa rating is 7,121,869. The goal is to get to under 200,000 in the next 6 months. Yikes! Well, I like goals and challenges, so 200,000, here we come!

Date: 21/07/2011 Author: Tags: Category: Inspired by, Uncategorized Bookmark: Permalink

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