Weekly Favorites and Gratitude!

My Favorite Posts this Week

• Live Real, Now with Girls Don't Fart  I'm not explaining this one...with that title, you have to click on it.
• Everyday Tips and Thoughts with What Are You Saving For, Besides Retirement?  It seems most people value experiences and memories.
• A Gai Shan Life with The "Small" Expenses Are Adding Up  What are you putting off?
• Five Cent Nickel with How to Pay Off Your Mortgage Early Great tips!
• Saving Money Today with What Scrooge McDuck Taught Me About Finances  Work smarter, not harder.
• Simple Life in France with Can You Be More Frugal in Town or in the Country  Nice breakdown IMO.  How did you pick your home?
• Funny about Money with Gimme that Ole-Time Real Food…  This made me look at what's in my fridge and realize I am the consumer these companies target.
• Punch Debt in the Face with You Know You're a PFer When...  Too funny!

Blogs That Featured a BFS Guest Post

• Free Money Finance posted my guest post, Do You Escrow?

Thank you very much for inviting me on to your site!

Blog Carnivals that Included BFS

• Money Beagle hosted the Money Hacks Carnival and chose Debt
• 151 Days Off hosted the Yakezie Carnival and chose Fit in a Fun Friday - Expensive Dreams

Thanks! I appreciate all the time hosts spend on this process.  It's a great feeling to be chosen!

Carnival hosts, if BFS is in a blog carnival that you are running, please email me the link so it can be added to this weekly list. Thanks!

Guest Posts on BFS

No guest posts this week, but if you would like to submit a guest post to BFS, please shoot me an idea or the actual post.  I'd also appreciate a one or two sentence introduction for the piece.  I'll get back to you quickly and will give you as much advance notice as possible on its posting date.

Other Info

• Brad at Enemy of Debt is hosting a fund-raiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters.  He's selling the "I'm Debt Free" game and giving 100% of his commission until August 7th to Big Brothers Big Sisters!

Feel free to email me if you have any suggestions.  I'd love to add a few more blogs to my regular reading list or at least give a shout-out for great posts or contests.

As always, thanks to all the bloggers that teach me something new every day.  Thanks to all my commenters for making this blog the community I want it to be.  Thanks to all my lurkers too.  I hope everybody is enjoying this as much as I am!