Reader Stories: How I became a home entrepreneur to get out of debt + MORE

This is a typical monthly update on blog’s progress and health. This is for the month of April, 2013. I last posted blog update in January. April marked the biggest traffic month for us,  with 102,522 page views and 73,978 unique visitors.  While we gained repeat visitors, couple of our articles remained at their top places on search engine result pages…

This reader story is from Kelly Crawford. Kelly is a “mompreneur” and contributing author for five blogs, including her own, Generation Cedar. Some reader stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success or failure. These stories feature folks with all levels of financial maturity and income…

Jennifer writes in:
My parents have been giving me $1,000 a month since I graduated from college three years ago. When my career first started, I really needed that money as I was an unpaid intern for several months at first while I built up my resume, then my first job paid less than minimum wage. Now, I’m making pretty good money…

I just came in from an afternoon on the deck, drinking iced tea and basking in the sun. About 30 minutes into it, I grabbed the sunscreen and put on a heavy coat all over my skin. And now, as I sit inside on this beautiful day, I smell like sunscreen, along with sun soaked skin and the scent of a perfect spring day…