Wow, is everyone else as surprised as I am? I mean, I went through the secret handshake and everything, but I didn’t think they’d actually let me join the club!*Steps through the door…* So…am I…am I actually allowed in here? Like, I’m in? Can I eat the crackers and salmon dip too? Sweet! …… *pockets a few of the crackers for later…..and some dip…*

About Me

My name is Jacob Wade, and I blog over at a small site called i Heart Budgets. I found my way here through some fun challenges in my life, namely being struck with absolute panic a month before my wedding, realizing that I had no idea what I was doing with my money. For those that don’t know the story (about 99.99999999% of you), I was blissfully ignorant about my finances for years, and had never met a dollar couldn’t spend. In fact, I spent over $100,000 of them before I turned 21!

As my wedding day approached me like a freight train, I realized I needed to do something. But mostly I just spent half my paycheck on mall food and kept ignoring the impending 500 tons of mass barreling toward me (I mean the financial mess I was about to create….not my wife….she’s a small percentage of a ton…anyways….wow….I’m going to have another thing coming if she finds out I’m talking about her weight on the internet). Luckily, my soon-to-be-brother-in-law dropped a Dave Ramsey CD in my lap and told me to listen to him. Staring at his smiling face and bald head, I could not be more unenthused about listening to an old guy talk about budgeting. LAAAAME! But something about him staring at me from my passenger side floor creeped me out enough to have me pop in the CD. Glad I did.

The rest of the story you can find on my “About” page, by needless to say, I got on a sweet-tastic budget and never looked back! Read More

Hey everyone! My name is Lance and I am the blogger behind the personal finance blog Money Life and More. I’ve been reading personal finance blogs for years although I can’t remember how I found the first blog or even what it was. The important part is that I eventually was inspired to add my own voice to the blogosphere.

What very few people know is that Money Life and More isn’t my first personal finance blog. In 2010 I actually started another blog and wrote a total of three posts before I realized that a) I had no clue what I was doing and b) no one would ever find it. I got frustrated and quit after writing that third post.

So what was different with Money Life and More? This time when I started my blog I reached out to a few bloggers who were very helpful and knowledgeable about blogging in general. They answered my questions and then encouraged me to join the Yakezie network. It was the best decision I’ve made with my blog.

Everyone was so helpful and answered all of my silly beginner questions. Without this group I never would have been able to accomplish my goals I had for Money Life and More.

Who Am I? Read More

Hi, my name is Dominique, and this member post is severely late. I narrowly missed my chance at being a Yakezie member in the last class, and now I almost blew my shot for the Epsilon class. I need to get my life together.

Let’s start this post over…

Hi, everyone my name is Dominique, and I’m a personal finance blogger who doesn’t quite know what the heck to write about here. Hmm… I’ll tell you about myself, my blog, and more importantly why I started blogging. Ya, you’ll like that wouldn’t you?

About Me

I’m a goofball 80 to 90% of the time. I’m the owner of www.yourfinancessimplified.com, and I literally can find comedy in every situation. I married the love of my life at a seriously young age (by today’s standards). Wait, I have a feeling you know all this stuff already.

Damnit… now I’m rambling.

Let’s just make a list of stuff I think you don’t know Read More