Weekly Favorites and Gratitude!

My Weekly Favorites

• Saving Money Today with How Much Would You Spend To Save Your Pet?  As someone who has spent about $1000 on my Pug in the last 8 months (I know...it hurts...), this hit home.
• Every Day Tips and Thoughts with Tips for Traveling With Kids  My family of five growing up actually used quite a few of these ideas.
• 20 Something Finance with WTDirect High Yield Savings Account: $500 Cash Bonus!  Dang cool if you wanted to look into an online bank.
• Squirrelers with Months of Covered Expenses: An Alternate Measure of Wealth  I like it as a measure since it takes into account how much you spend.
• Eventual Millionaire with 10 Money Saving Websites  Just in case you didn't know about these...
• Frugal Confessions with Saving Money For the Person Who Doesn't Have Time for Coupons  I learned a couple of things...
• Live Real Now with all of his garage sale posts! Seriously, start here and read the whole week if you ever want help decluttering or just a laugh at his descriptions...
• Monevator with Rich Friends, Poor Friends  Not where I thought he was going, but nice.
• Ultimate Money Blog with My Debt Reduction Plan  I feel her pain.

Guest Posts on BFS

• Alban at Credit Card Finder contributed 8 Money-Saving Credit Card Hacks

Guest posts introduce different points of view, bring in additonal readers, and allow me to take a day off.  Thank you!

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.

Blog Carnivals that Featured BFS

• Personal Finance Journey hosted the Carnival of Money Stories and chose My Crappy Car

Carnival hosts, thank you so much for the time you took to host!  Being chosen feels great!

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!

Other Info

• Free From Broke is giving away one $25 Grocery Gift Card and you can have a chance to win if you leave a healthy meal idea on this post!
• 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!
• Thanks to Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance for including my tips in her post, Elite Budget Tips from Well Regarded Personal Finance Bloggers.
• Sweating the Big Stuff is having a Giveaway of three pf books based on his NEW Facebook Page.

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!