Here are a few posts from the Yakezie Carnival Newbie Edition that didn’t make the initial carnival because I was on vacation.
Sometimes errors to the spreadsheet happens and this one was caused by me being out of town with limited access to internet resources.
Isn’t it amazing how much we all depend on the internet for everything these day?!?
Without further ado, here is the rest of the carnival:
Sustainable Life Blog: Exercise Goal Setting – How do you set goals for exercise? Do you think they help at keeping you motivated?
PT Money Personal Finance: How to Find Time to Make Extra Money – Offers several strategies for finding time in your day for extra income earning activities.
Stock Market Basics: Learn How to Invest Wisely – The article details the basics steps needed to start investing and the various forms of investment avenues that are available in the market today.
Little House in the Valley: Should Your Rent or Buy Your Textbooks? – An analysis on which is better; renting or buying textbooks. A cost analysis and some things to consider.
Free From Broke: The Best Credit Cards for College Students – What are the best credit cards for college students? I’ve listed some great student credit cards that offer up everything from cash back to rewards programs to low intro APR. See which credit card for college students is right for you.
krantcents: It Is Good To Be King! – It is good to be king or queen because you set the rules.
Our Journey To Zero: 130 Feet of Fun – What happens when my neighbors and I get together on a hot day? 130 foot slip n slide!
Fat Guy, Skinny Wallet: How We Handled Emergency Travel Expenses – Recently, my grandmother passed away, and my wife and I had to travel out of town to attend the funeral. Find out what we did to cut costs, and avoid tapping into our emergency fund!
My Personal Finance Journey: Petsmart vs. Petco – Which Is More Affordable? – For many of us, our pets can be just as much a part of the family as a child (I am a dog-lover myself). As a valued member of the family, it can be very easy to spend large amounts of money on toys, clothes, bedding, food, and health care products for your pets. Two very common sources for these products are the stores Petco and Petsmart. This post takes a look at trying to determine which store will actually save you more money.
FamilyMoneyValues: Investing Basics – History of Wall Street – Investing in the stock market has historically meant using stock market exchanges (and for now – still does). What are exchanges and how did the big ones used today get started? Read this post for a short history of Wall Street and how it relates to today’s electronic market platforms.
Big thanks to the blogger at nodebtmba.com! Sorry, my bad for missing these excellent financial posts and bloggers!
Welcome to the Yakezie Carnival – Birthday Edition, Part 2.
The Birthday part of the carnival was in reference to my son’s birthday last week, but his week it’s in reference to FirstGenAmerican.com who just had her blog turn one!, and the newly born full-time blogger Crystal at Budgetinginthefunstuff.com (we’re very excited for her!), and Kay Lynn at BucksomeBoomer.com who had her blog just turned two!, exciting times all around! In celebrations, I broke from my diet and had cake and some ice cream! Congratulations ladies!
We had so many excellent representation of personal finance blogger articles, that I decided to split the carnival in two parts. This is the 2nd part of the carnival below.
Check them out, I think you’ll be happy you did!
Money Talks: Never Say “I Can’t Afford It” Again – Language is a powerful thing. Try saying “I choose not to spend my money on that.” instead of “I can’t afford it” and see how it feels.
Faith and Finance: Teaching Children About Compound Interest – One small habit can change the way your children look at money forever. By matching your kid’s birthday gifts with a contribution to the ‘compound-lesson’ fund, you can help your child understand the impact of compound interest. Are you up for the challenge?
Living in Financial Excellence: My Lawnmower Broke and I’m Not Going to Fix It – About six years ago my lawnmower refused to start. I thought I would attempt repairing it myself to save a little money. I also thought I knew what I was doing. This was one of life’s hard lessons that taught me how much I really don’t know. The short story is I ended up destroying the lawnmower and had to buy a new one.
Financial Success for Young Adults: Finance Lessons from the Hobbit – Learn how to manage your money from Bilbo Baggins himself. Don’t be a Scrooge with your money, be a Hobbit!
Yes, I Am Cheap: CEO Salaries Rise Faster Than Average Workers – The economy is on an upswing if the rise in CEO pay is an indication. While the average worker salary increased 0.5% last year, CEO salaries increased by 23%!
Frugal Confessions: Can’t Get Ahead? It May Be Time to Get Out the Machete – A lot of articles I write here are about fine-tuning your frugal habits, budget, and spending. It’s as if I ask you to take a scalpel and slit open the tiniest of holes in your finances in order to reap that extra little efficiency. But what if that is not enough? It may be time for some more drastic measures.
Squirrelers: Doctors and Customer Service – Story about a less-than stellar customer service experience at a doctor visit, brings to mind the thought that doctors are service providers and can only help their business by thinking more about the customer.
Invest It Wisely:Nature vs. Nurture – Nature and nurture doesn’t begin and end with birth. As time goes on, we gain more and more influence over our own lives. I firmly believe that we can improve ourselves as human beings by surrounding ourselves with people that are better than ourselves.
Investor Junkie: Lending Club (July 2011 Update) - This update marks now two years since I’ve been investing in Lending Club notes (see my first review of Lending Club). Since my last update, my NAR has decreased to 11.32% from 11.35%
Mom’s Plans: Three Strategies to Make It Easier to Pick Up the Pieces after a Natural Disaster - While no one wants to imagine being in the path of Mother Nature’s wrath, there are some steps you can take to protect yourself if you are. Making it through a tornado or other natural disaster with your life and the lives of your loved ones is most important. Everything else is extra. But following these steps can help make picking up the pieces a bit easier.
My Journey to Millions:July 2011 Net Worth Update: Great Month – Usually I combine my net worth updates with some sort small complaint I have, but June was an amazing month for me both personally and financially.
Control Your Cash:Programmed to Receive -Great story about Don Felder’s problems with the Eagles band (of which he was a shareholder for 33% of the company). My takeaway from the article was that it’s owning a piece of the action is smarter than being an employee. Check it out, it’s a fascinating read!
No it’s not the Birthday of the Yakezie formation (I didn’t mean to mislead you, if I did)!
Today, we’re celebrating my son’s 11th Birthday!
It seems like just yesterday I was teaching him how to ride a bike! My how the time has flown by…
So the question is…
As a financial blogger, am I happy with his current financial awareness?
And the answer is a resounding Yes!
I think the greatest thing he has learned is to keep a running balance of how much money he has and how much he allows himself to spend. The coolest part of this is that he did this on his own (it wasn’t my idea, especially when he started at age 9).
He’s learning the value of money and has started to do extra chores for money around the house. Yep, I’m a proud dad and very happy with his progress.
As he ages, I’m going to have my son read some of the Yakezie member articles, perhaps we’ll even read some together and talk about the topics that the Yakezie members write about.
The Yakezie Carnival is back into full swing with a very long list of entries this week. In fact we have so many entries, that I decided to split them up into two separate posts. The entries are listed in chronological order (as would be expected with a birthday edition!).
I hope you enjoy this Part 1 of the Yakezie Carnival – Birthday Edition!
Lego Birthday Cake
Sweating The Big Stuff: A Drop of Honey Makes You Money in Negotiations – An epic battle between Daniel from Sweating the Big Stuff and Kevin from Thousandaire. Read this article and Daniels (at the link in the article) and cast your vote!
The Ultimate Juggle: Hola ‘Winans Columbus’ – In the efforts to make more money, my husband and I have invested in and are assisting in the operations of a new, local chocolate and coffee shop. Another great and exciting entrepreneurial object to juggle, wish me luck!
Money Reasons:Benefits of a High Credit Score – If you have a high or excellent credit score, make sure you are using it as a financial tool! Check out the benefits that you can use your high credit score for!
One Cent At A Time: Tips To Stay Away From Impulse Buying – The most common reason of over spent is impulse buying, we buy expensive cars when we see the guy next door driving one. This post talks about various tricks and tips to control emotional or impulse buying. How to exercise control to stop from buying things on sudden urge.
Sustainable Personal Finance: What is Dividend Investing? – A primer on dividend investing for new and seasoned investors alike.
Sustainable Life Blog: Importance of Insurance – Are you properly insured for life’s curveballs and think you have your bases covered? Check out this story of an event organizer who thought the same thing, until 1 man threatened to make him pay for it.
Money Cone: Thrill Money Investing – Although I invest for the long term, I’ll admit, from time to time, I speculate on market movements for short term gains. I call this Thrill Money Investing. I only allocate a very small portion of my investing funds, funds that I can afford to lose without losing sleep, towards TMI. Any gains are plowed back into boring, conservative stocks or ETFs. This is essentially profiting on current events, mob psychology and market trends rather than on company fundamentals. Of course there are many methods, these are some of the techniques I’ve used personally with good success.
Krantcents: My Journey to Success target=”_blank” – My journey to success from employee to financial freedom. Details of how I achieved financial freedom.
Little House in the Valley: Can I Save Money by Eating Out – As a couple, our eating out seems to be reflecting a similar or less expensive option for satiating our hunger. Can I really save money by eating out for two? Find out.
Free From Broke: Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card | Review – If you fly with Southwest Airlines then having their credit card is an easy way to maximize your spending to get free flights and more. See if this credit card is good for you.
My Personal Finance Journey: 15 Ways to Save on Car Costs – When it comes to saving money on your car, a little bit of knowledge can go a long ways. Here are 15 tips to help you spend less for your transportation.
The Penny Hoarder: Make Money Test Driving Cars – If you love cars you will love this money making idea. Did you know you can get paid to test drive new cars at automobile dealerships?
Money In The 20s: Tips for Creating a Budget Quickly – I think a budget is a great way to see where your money is going and to make sure that your spending is in line with your priorities. There are many ways to budget, so here are a few tips for creating a budget quickly.
Family Money Values: Grandma’s Money Camp 2011 Teaching My Grandchildren About Money – As a grandparent, especially if you don’t want heirs to destroy the inheritance you intend to leave, you want your grandchildren to learn basic money management as well as more advanced investing concepts and practices. Establishing the tradition of running a money camp each year for your grandchildren can benefit you, your children and your grandchildren by enabling the learning and practice of personal finance skills.
Money Is The Root: Forget About The Low Hanging Fruit – I urge you to forget about the low hanging fruit like daily lattes etc., and focus on the higher monthly costs that really affect your budget.
The Amateur Financier: Determining Your Risk Tolerance – There’s much discussion about risk tolerance in the financial media, but what does it mean, exactly? How do you determine your own risk tolerance? And of course, once you know it, what do you do with that information? Find out in this article from The Amateur Financier!
Prairie Eco Thrifter: How I Lost Nearly 30 Pounds – I had to start prioritizing my “loves” to lose weight. If a single brownie is going to cost me 6 points but an entire 2-3 cup strawberry smoothie with Splenda only costs me 4 points, I have to decide on what to eat based on quantity, quality, and mood. Since I love to budget anyway, budgeting food points seemed to come naturally to me. Within 2 weeks, the pounds were just disappearing!
Live Real Now: Family Bed: How to Make It Stop – When the girls got old enough to reason with, we had a choice: We either had to find a way to convince them they wanted to sleep in their own room, or we had to have a fourth brat for them to attempt to crush at night. We went with bribery. Outright, blatant bribery.
Last week the Yakezie Carnival was run by Eric at Narrow Bridge Finance, he did a spectacular job that really captured the mood of the Fourth of July! Check out his Yakezie Carnival: Independence Day Edition
This concludes Part 1 of the Yakezie Carnival, the 2nd part will follow in a few days!
Wow, I can’t believe we are almost 2 month into the year 2011 already! Time truly is flying! Theme of this Yakezie Carnival is quickness. So with respect to time and speed, I’ve chosen to put the contributors in my carnival in the order that I received them.
Okay, now that the theme of the Yakezie is defined, what exactly do I mean my “The Quickening”? Well it’s actually a concept from a now older movie called “Highlander“, and today it translates to mean “Git-R-Done“ with speed! All joking aside, it means hurry the hell up, or accelerate now.
And now finally you may be wondering, “What is Yakezie“? Well, Yakezie is a network of many of the best financial bloggers. The network is unique in that it contributes it’s earnings collected from donors and voluntary contributions by members to charities (currently scholarships). It’s truly a selfless endeavor that I’m proud to be a member of!
So now on the great lineup of articles submitted to the Yakezie Carnival!
Beating Broke: What Motivates Your Finances – What is it that motivates you in your finances? What makes you want to pay those bills off and live debt free? What do you most look forward to gaining by being debt free?
Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance: 6 Dangerous Investing Myths – Guest post by Rob Bennett at Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance. Interesting theory on asset allocation. It’s not the standard approach and offers a new viewpoint on an old topic.
Little House in the Valley: Creating a Budget After a Melt down – How to create a budget using a spreadsheet after a financial melt down. I’m really trying to push the key works “creating a budget” for organic searches. Thanks again and I’ve signed up to host one in a few weeks!
Faithful With A Few: 4 Credit Card Benefits You Should Not Ignore – There are many credit card benefits to consider before cutting up those cards! Find out the 4 most common credit card benefits, and if they are right for you!
Fat Guy Skinny Wallet: My First Day With Debbie Siebers And I Can Barely Walk! – My wife asked me this weekend about starting Debbie Siebers’ Slim In 6 workout program with her today! The first day punished my quads, but I’m not going to quit!! Plus, we still haven’t eaten out!
The Millionaire Nurse Blog: Money Success? – What is the difference between success and failure with your money? A few tips to help you succeed with your financial goals.
First Gen American: Babci on Time Management – Babci’s wisdom from an older day on Time Management. See if you agree with Babci!
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff: Make Money Blogging – Here’s how I made $6000 in less than a year of blogging in 2010!
Watson, Inc: What Keeps You On Track Financially? What makes you keep your eyes on the financial ball? Balance truly is the key to a fulfilling life and finances.
Everyday Tips & Thoughts: Change and Perspective – The unfolding of events in life can go either ways sometimes. Sometimes when life looks the most bleak, it can just as quickly take a quick turn for the better.
The Ultimate Juggle: How To Work – Working at work vs being at home with a baby requires adjustments to the style in which work gets prioritized and completed. I describe my scenario and how I cope.
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Can you believe it’s December 5th, and we still haven’t gone out and picked out our Christmas tree yet!
It’s close to Christmas which holds special memories for me of my grandmother! She use to try to make the holiday as magical as possible for the entire family! Cookies, special dishes, lights, Christmas Trees, Christmas music and so on!
In fact, my grandmother loved the holiday so much, she use to make an entire Christmas scene on a few of the packages she wrapped, at least 1 per family member! It took her hours to do those special packages, and while I just tore into the package (I was much younger back then), I now appreciate the effort that went into creating them!
So here is a song that was one of our favorites growing up:
Okay, I admit, the artist that sung this wasn’t something my grandmother ever listened to, but the song was! This is a great video if you haven’t seen it before! Talk about getting into the spirit of the season!
Now On With The Carnival!
Aloysa’s Kitchen Sink: Why Women Lie About Shopping – Interesting glance inside a woman’s thinking around this stealth move!
Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance: Does My Child Need Life Insurance? – I think the title says it all on this one! Read Barbara’s article to find out!
Beating the Index: Weekend Edition: A Hypocrite Boycotts the Oil Sands BTI mentions that Avon is boycotting a Canadian oil company! He brings up the point that does it really make sense to buy from other less peaceful countries instead?
Bucksome Boomer: Is Cell Phone Insurance Worth the Price? – It’s worth it to check out Kay Lynn’s picture in this article (lol)! I didn’t even know there was such insurance, but should I really be surprised?
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff: Fit in a Fun Friday – Holiday Decorations – This post actually helped inspire my intro to this carnival! After reading the article, I just knew that I had to open the carnival with my feelings on the holiday!
Car Negotiation Coach: How to find the best price on car tires – Through reading his blog, The Car Negotiation Coach is the one source that I would definitely take heed to with respect to anything related to cars, and this is true with tires too! I only wish I had a Costco nearby…
Consumerism Commentary: Body Parts You Can Sell – Flexo describes ways to make money by selling body parts! This is an great read, and definitely off the beaten path! Check out how much one can make from selling sperm! I had no idea!!!
Couple Money: Debt Free Vacations – How It Works for Us What a great idea! Great tips here to make it happen!
Engineer Your Finances: Protect Your Purchases: Free Inventory Software – What a great idea! Nice find and thanks for sharing the info! I learned something new that I didn’t know previously!!!
Everyday Tips and Thoughts: Twelve Days Of Christmas Rewrite (And My Spam Email Awarded Me…) Okay, this is great! If you don’t laugh (or at least chuckle while reading this, then I’ll send you a personal email apologizing for highly recommending this psot)! This would definitely be one of my editor picks if I use that medium. Have a great laugh and check this out!!!
Financial Samurai: Open Enrollment: You Might Die An Expensive Death So Sign-up Now We focus on eeking out that extra .005% on our investments, but really Sam brings up a costly if ignored point with this article! This is a great point and should be looked at and acted upon!
First Gen American: Weird Foods I’ve Eaten – Yeah, yeah, I know this has nothing to do with finance, but still… what an interesting read! I think you be amazed at the foods that Sandy L. has experienced. Needless to say, I was very impressed!
Frugal Confessions: The Anatomy of a Coupon – Great comprehensive analysis of coupons and shocking turns of events in this area, especially with respect to the affluent! Yet another article where I learned a few things, who would have guess that it was coca cola that made coupons big?
Frugal Zeitgeist: How To Save Money – Sound advice that I’m not following 100% but I should be, take a look at these, they are spot on!
Invest It Wisely: Walkin’ in a Winter Wonderland I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this is the best parody (at least lyrics wise), that I’ve ever read! Now if we could just get thousandaire to create a video of the song!
Len Penzo: The Market Speaks: Why George Harrison Is the No. 1 Beatle – Len has the incredible ability of finding the coolest facts and ideas! When you mix those discoveries with a truly unique voice and witty humor, well it’s obvious isn’t it?
Monevator: Index fund tactics to save you a bundle – Sometimes things are taken for granted over here, isn’t try elsewhere, and this is on such case. We usually think if the U.K. and U.S. as the same, but as the Investor demonstrates it’s not true with respect to index funds!
Not Made of Money: Frugal Christmas Decorating Ideas – Based on Mrs. Not Made of Money’s article, I would even say that her ideas are both frugal and classy! Definitely an achievable combination with some thinking! We love using candlelight (and even on the other holidays too)!
Out of Debt Again: How to Stay Focused With a To Do List – I totally believe in the use of such a list. And I’m starting to slowly start to do that activity, but I should jump in and not look back!
The Saved Quarter: 10 Gifts that Keep on Saving – These are some of the top ideas for a smart Christmas or really whatever occasion!
Thousandaire: For When I Retire [Music Video] I thought this would be cheesy and a waste of my watching time… I was wrong! It’s definitely worth checking out!
The Little House in the Valley: Tumbleweed Home Plan On Sale – In some ways I consider LHITV an expert on housing types and research. She doesn’t disappoint with this notice! She also write for wisebread.com!
The Millionaire Nurse: Gratitude! – Dr Dean discusses the background and meaning of the word Gratitude! Dr. Dean makes some good point about the reason we should all strive to apply the meaning of the work in our lives too.
Personal Finance By The Book: Dealing With Poor Performance: Lessons From Simon Cowell and Jesus Christ – The ideal doesn’t always match the image. But personally, I prefer realism! Being too nice (a fault of my personality), doesn’t help matter, it lets the problems fester and grow. Sometimes the True hurts, but it’s still the truth! So I think the comparison is a great one, read this article! It’s a must read in my opinion!
Smart on Money: Will The Bush Tax Cuts Be Extended In The Lame Duck Session? I dislike politics and that’s what going on… But it does affect our bottom line in the amount of taxes that we will be paying! Check this one out, it will impact you in one way or another if the Tax Cuts expire!
Saving Money Today: Samurai Jack’s Guide To Personal Finance – I’m sad to say that I never watch Samurai Jack… But I have watch South Park (be warned South Park has some pretty disgusting episodes!), and I’m always amazed what you can learn for such sources if you look for it! And of course this is the case with Samurai Jack too!
Watson Inc.: I actually had a hard time deciding which of the great articles Shawn has written to include. Since they are all good! I decided to go with his newest: Am I A Financial Hypocrite? I don’t want to see muni bonds lose they special federal income tax free status either! Check out Shawn’s previous articles too!
Well, that’s it for this Yakezie carnival! Thanks to all of those that send my their link for the carnival.
Hope you enjoyed this great group of articles, I know I have! If you want more, check out last weeks Carnival at Little House In The Valley’s website: Yakezie Carnival Round-Up
Here is to wishing everybody a great holiday season,
-MR
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