Weekly Favorites and Gratitude!

My Weekly Favorites

• Get Rich Slowly with Social Capital: More Valuable Than Money?  It is to me.
• Free Money Finance with the reader question Help a Reader: Discussing a Pre-Nup  I hadn't thought about pre-nups for a while...what do you think?
• Live Real, Now with 10 Tips to Help Parents Stay Out of Debt  Good advice...babies do not care how much their blanky cost.
• Everyday Tips and Thoughts with How Far Are You Willing To Go To Save Money?  When is it just not worth it?
• A Gai Shan Life with High School Reunions and Ruminations  My husband's 10 year reunion is next year...I'm happy that we're happy but I want to lose 20 pounds.
• Moneycrush with Yes, You CAN Afford to Contribute to Your 401k  I think so too.
• Saving Money Today with Mike's Ultimate Beer Can Chicken Recipe  YUM
• Studenomics with I Need to Fix My Spending Habits ASAP!  Good tips.

Blog Carnivals that Featured BFS

• Engineer Your Finances hosted the Money Hackers Carnival and chose Multiple Accounts for Easy Budgeting
• Free From Broke hosted the Yakezie Carnival and chose Diversification

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

• 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!
• Sweating the Big Stuff is having a Giveaway of three pf books based on his NEW Facebook Page.

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.


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!