As a Jeep owner I am happy to share this video. This post is sponsored by Jeep. It has been a busy week with work as working in finance it is month end and the financial situation like so many other businesses around is not doing good. Seeing first hand the money that the organization is bleeding does not give me that warm and fuzzy feeling, but it also makes me look inward to tidy up my own finances to make sure that I have my money in order. So here is what my wife and I have done since...
As some of you know from one of my post that I am on a board of directors for a local preservation group that helps local landmarks. If you are interested in joining please let me know…shameless plug…Last night was our annual dinner where we hand out award to local companies that have embraced our vision. I am the membership chairman so I had to give a brief speech. There were local politicians and business owners in attendance, standing in front of them it was quite nerve wrecking. Here are the Five For Friday: Need a home security system check out this post....
Well it has been a long time since I did one of these weekly round up type things, I don’t really know where to start. I will reintroduce myself. I am a normal 30 year old guy that lives in Upstate NY with my beautiful wife and 2 daughters. My wife and I both have graduate degrees but that doesn’t mean that we are debt free as we took a few detours to the path of debt freedom ie. 2 lil girls. I have been blogging since February and I have made a lot of great friends through this from...
This has been a long week at work. I had a virus on my computer that I am still trying to rectify and I am posting this from my cell phone. So if there are any errors please email me. It gets me thinking; while cell phones are amazing running a blog from a phone is not practical. I can respond to emails and comments but a lengthy post is just not in the cards. I think in the subsequent weeks I am going to expand the Five For Friday. If you have any clever naming methodologies please shoot me...
It has been a long week. I went out of town on Wednesday night and made a rookie mistake in forgetting to set up a post for Thursday. Then thinking I could access it from my phone, I tried and remembered that my WordPress hardening tactics worked well as I was not able to access behind the scenes here! So as frustrating as that was I had a good night golfing afterward. I was not able to read too many sites this week as I was working hard to complete an audit before I went out of town. But the...
What an interesting week it has been. My Alexa rank dropped below 200,000 thanks to you, really I couldn’t have done it without you so I thank you!! I had a logo created for my site so take a look and let me know what you think! This weekend atleast where I live it supposed to be in the upper 60’s so that is making me feel anxious to get outside and do some yard work! So here they are in no particular order, the Five For Friday! J Money on how far would you go to pick up a...
The Five for Friday is tough to decide on just five, but here they are in no particular order: Jeremy at Modest Money talks about the outsourcing, good read and a few sites mentioned if you are looking to go the outsourcing route. Karunesh’s Chase A Dream site is great, he is very creative just go take a look you will not be disappointed. For those looking to decorate their house or apartment check this out by Katie @ Along For the Journey, did I mention it is budget conscious too! Here is a good lesson of you have to look...
Wow the weekend is finally here!!! I am so thankful for that, hopefully our 2 little ladies let me sleep a little this weekend. Anyone have anything exciting going on this weekend you care to share? My wife has a baby shower for my brother’s fiancé. It will be their first child and I am so excited! Take a look at the five sites that I thought added some value to my brain this week, in no random order. Corbett Barr over at Expert Enough kept my interest this week. Be sure to check out Corbett’s sites if you...
For all of you that missed the Friday edition, we were taking part of the Yakezie blog swap. Basically what takes place is that we sign up for the blog swap and we are partnered with a fellow blogger. We post an article about a particular topic, which this time the topic was the best investment advice I ever received. I traded posts with my buddy over at Short Road to Retirement. Be sure to stop over there and check out his site and also to check out my article! I don’t know if you have been following along in...
Well here it is the Five For Friday: March Madness Edition. This week we have had an explosion with traffic. Out of left field we must be getting noticed. Thank you and I appreciate you stopping by, hopefully I haven’t bored you too much that you come again or subscribe. Now to take a look at the sites that caught my eye this week: I wrote an article about your emergency fund the other week, but here another blogger, Frugal Portland, poses the question to the world. Great we have an emergency fund, now when can we use it? Anthony Thompson over...
Well here it is the Five For Friday. Another week has come and gone and we continue to pump out the articles. It has had its share of ups and downs over there past month and a half, from late nights to early mornings. A lot of great comments and plenty of feedback received via email. Thank you and keep those suggestions coming. I really appreciate it. Here is what I have been reading this past week that has really kept my interest and even provoked some commenting. Homeownership may not be for everyone but here are some lessons learned. ...
Wow a whole 2 weeks into personal finance blogging and I have to say I love doing it. It has been a great journey thus far. I am building some great friendships with the personal finance blogging community. I have found the Yakezie Network great and everyone is very willing to help out. I learned that with blogging or your spouse you have to give love to receive love. I am out there sharing the love as much as I can with my fellow bloggers. Here is it close to midnight preparing the post after a long day of blogging and...
Wow, what a first week, this is really exciting and I love waking up in the morning now to blog again!! A lot of great comments and plenty of feedback received via email. Thank you keep those suggestions coming. I really appreciate it. So, what did I do this week read many, many blogs because once you start reading you can’t stop. Here are a few that I found particularly interesting this week in no particular order: Check out Shaun over at Money Cactus and check out this well written article…it really gets you thinking about what really motivates you???...
