One of my favorite authors, Ralph Waldo Emerson, has the wisdom to cure most problems in our world — Common sense is as rare as genius, – is the basis of genius. I am not a genius, but I have lots of common sense. When I decided to launch a personal finance blog, I didn’t think […]
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There seems to be a tradition going of starting off a membership post with a statement of feeling overwhelmed by the company the poster is now keeping as a member of the Yakezie network. Well, far be it from me to buck tradition. When I first signed up for the challenge, I honestly thought I […]
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January 22, 2012 It was a cold, clear day; no leaves left on the tall sticks in our backyard that we used to refer to as trees. In January, the dead of winter here in the Midwest, the Sun sets before dinnertime. I’ve always found this time of year to be somewhat depressing because of […]
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I think that I’m one of the anomalies in blogging or at least our personal finance blogging community. I’ve been actually blogging for four years now, and I’ve lived the blogger dream of creating popular blogs and selling them only to later have seller’s remorse. After selling my original blog two years ago, I quickly […]
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You would think that nine months of challenge would be enough to think about, practice and prepare for writing my Yakezie membership post, right? So did I but we would both bewrong! I have been agonising over it for three day now, writing and re-writing. Why? Because I really want to integrate in the Yakezie […]
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An Imperfect Mold While I didn’t grow up in the projects of St. Louis, burglaries were common and it’s wasn’t unusual to hear the “pop, pop, pop” sound of a gun not too far in the distance. After years of growing up in a rough neighborhood, I was fortunate to be accepted to one of […]
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Hey there! My name is Michelle and I blog at Making Sense of Cents. Before last summer, I NEVER saw or imagined myself blogging. I never put more than a second of thought into it. However, starting last summer, I became a habitual blog lurker. I would read blogs, but never leave comments or let […]
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Self Sufficient Roots I guess like anyone it began in my youth. My parents were pretty frugal partly out of necessity, I have six brothers and sisters, but also from their experience growing up in Boston during the 1930s. Some of my earliest memories are of the summer trips to Boston, all 9 of us […]
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