Seventeen months ago I had just finished working on one of the 2010 congressional campaigns (my guy lost, for the record). I had done this before, so I knew the next few months would bring about a nervous, sometimes frantic, search for my next campaign, the next candidate; in other words, the next paycheck.

Such is the life of a campaign worker. I had basically lived on the road for the last 6 years and while I loved my job, I knew that I wanted something different. I wanted something steady. I wanted a home.

I’m Kyle Taylor from The Penny Hoarder. I couldn’t be more excited to join Yakezie as a full member this month and for my introduction post, I’d love to share my journey to becoming a blogger and my plans going forward…

The Penny Hoarder Launches Read More

I’m Robert from My Multiple Incomes. For those of you who don’t know, this is my second time around the Yakezie Challenge block.  I’m also the guy behind The College Investor, a blog dedicated to personal finance for young adults and college students.  I started My Multiple Incomes in 2011 after blogging for over 2 years at The College Investor.  At first, I was leery about starting a second blog due to the time and effort involved, and continued to ask myself – what if I just posted everything at The College Investor?

In the end, I decided to keep The College Investor focused on it’s mission of delivering great personal finance topics geared towards young adults, and start My Multiple Incomes to discuss the multiple income theory I had been developing.

Multiple Incomes as Theory Read More

I’m not really sure how most people come to blogging- but I came up with the idea while at a bar aptly named the “Rock Bottom” when I was literally crying into my beer after discovering I had made some big mistakes.

At the time, I found myself in downtown Chicago, quickly approaching my first-ever real winter, in a city I’d never even been to before packing up my hatchback Toyota to move to the midwest from sunny California and start graduate school.  See, here’s the thing- I was at the Rock Bottom Brewery, crying into a beer- broke and disillusioned with my life as a graduate student.

Some people start a blog as a hobby and others, well- we start blogs because we find ourselves in very odd circumstances in ironically named locations and blogging just seems like the right thing to do.   This is exactly how Frugalbeautiful.com was born at a literal Rock Bottom. Read More