Canadian Finance Blog entered the Yakezie Challenge just in late February with a rather decent Alexa score of 128,683. Since that time, thanks to all the Yakezie members visiting the site, with the toolbar installed, we are now at an awesome 92,556! To help give back to some of those members, we’re hosting the 6th edition of the Yakezie Carnival. So check out some of these great posts!
Peak Personal Finance presents What Do You Want Out of Retirement? saying “Before you can plan for retirement, you have to know what you want. This article will provide some guidance.”
Saving Money Today presents 7 Things Worrying the Middle Class saying “Seven money-related topics that are keeping a lot of people awake at night.”
My Journey to Millions presents Worth and Value aren’t the Same Thing saying “Ever given any thought to whether you want your life full of valuable items or items of worth? They aren’t the same thing.”
Christian Common Cents presents How to Pay Off Your Mortgage Early saying “Quick summary of tips and tricks to pay off your mortgage early.”
Rainy-Day Saver presents Declutter Your Life: Stuff vs. Memories saying “We all have keepsakes and tend to “collect” memories. But can you separate the emotional ties from the physical ones and declutter your life?”
Wealth Pilgrim presents How To Get An Expensive College Education For 80% Less saying “You can easily get an expensive college education for a fraction of the cost.”
Not Made Of Money presents How to Save Money On Snack Foods saying “The article details 5 ways you can save money on snacks.”
Cool to be Frugal presents Everything is new saying “Turning compost spurs reflection on life’s path.”
Ultimate Money Blog presents How to Make Deodorant saying “Learn how to make your own natural deodorant!”
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff presents Want a Raise? Have These Traits? saying “Traits your employer will appreciate when you’re discussing compensation.”
The Life of an Insurance Salesman presents Is Alexa the new Nielsen rating? saying “Has Alexa become the Nielsen ratings? Where a subset, which can be manipulated, is used to estimate the total population. Am I inadvertently taking advantage of this?”
Evolution Of Wealth presents Life Insurance’s Recent Overhaul saying “Life insurance premiums have dropped since the use of 2001 CSO tables. Meaning lower costs for term life policies and more importance on the design of cash value life insurance policies.”
Personal Finance by the Book presents The New Health Care Bill: A Prescription for Diminished Health Cartel saying “This post explores some possible long term effects the new health care bill could have on quality of care.”
Sweating The Big Stuff presents Squeezing More Out of Your Retirement Account saying “A look at how front-loading can help you squeeze even better returns out of your retirement account.”
Financial Samurai presents How To Apologize For An Error? Martyr Yourself!” saying “A tried and true method for making up for life’s stupid mistakes!”
Personal Finance Journey Comparing Crown Ministries & Financial Peace saying “A side by side comparison of the two major Christian financial stewardship plans: Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University and Crown Ministries.”
The Simple Life in France presents Have You Ever Felt Poor? saying “Asks for reader response on the question of having felt poor and explores what exactly ‘feeling poor’ means.”
The Debt Hawk presents How To Get Out of Credit Card Debt saying “Full-proof guide on how to get out of credit card debt. Don’t make getting out of debt more complicated than it needs to be.”
Clarifinancial presents How to Get Diabetic Life Insurance Quotes saying “I cover the challenges of getting life insurance with diabetes, include a checklist of things to get before you go shopping, and talk about why a personalized touch is the best solution for diabetics.”
Free From Broke presents Great Tax Options And Questions Answered saying “As there are too many tax subjects to cover by myself, I culled some great tax answers together in one article!”
Beating Broke presents Is CD Laddering worth the trouble saying “CD laddering is a pretty popular subject among financial planners, but is it really worth the trouble?”
Narrow Bridge presents Where My Money Goes saying “A slightly shocking revelation of where my money has gone for the last 1000 days.”
The Millionaire Nurse Blog presents Student Loans & Obama Health Care Reform-What’s up with that??? saying “An update on the recent changes in the federal student loan program. Contained in the Health Care Bill-What’s up with that????”
Bible Debt presents The lifestyle blog design drinking game saying “Shrink your liver to think incredibly amazing and awesome drinking game. Stock photo not included. As you might have guessed, it is a list of drinking rules to be used when you’re at a party and there are no girls around but you just happen to have a six pack of beer and an RSS reader tuned to your favorite lifestyle design blog.”
Early Retirement Extreme presents 15 things you should know about HSAs saying “HSAs coupled with a HDHP is a great way to get health insurance for practically nothing. If you take care of yourself, the above the line tax reduction can reduce your cost to almost nothing.”
Engineer Your Finances presents Rooting Out The Devil saying “Interview with Kathy Kristof”
Next Sunday the carnival will be hosted by Money Reasons, so be sure to check it out for even more Yakezie articles!
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Most excellent wrap Tom. I like how each entry has commentary since it’s up to us to provide the description.
Cheers, Sam
.-= Financial Samurai´s last blog ..The Katana: Spring Cleaning and Moving Forward =-.
Very nice job on the carnival! Thanks for including me! And congrats on your progress and for breaking 100K!
.-= Mrs. Frugal´s last blog ..Net Worth and Goals: March 2010 – Up 5.8% and making great progress! =-.
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Congrats on breaking the 100,000 barrier!
Great job on the Carnival and thanks for including my post. Much appreciated!
Congrats, that is awesome!!
Thanks so much for the link!
.-= Mrs. Money´s last blog ..What is Funds Availability? =-.
This is awesome Tom. I love all the different perspectives here.
Congrats on obtaining an even lower ranking and thanks for sharing the love!
.-= Lakita (PFJourney)´s last blog ..FHA Insured Loan Costs to Increase =-.
Thanks for the wrap up!
.-= Evan´s last blog ..Nanny Groups Suck – Leave Ronald McDonald Alone and Just Tell you Kid No =-.
Excellent job putting it all together, and thanks for the mention!
.-= Mike – Saving Money Today´s last blog ..What Adam Sandler Taught Me About Priorities =-.
Great job on breaking 100k and on the carnival. Thank you as well.
.-= Evolution Of Wealth´s last blog ..5 More Ways Group Disability Insurance Disappoints =-.
Nice carnival – thanks for including my article. Congratulations on breaking the 100K!
.-= Mrs. Not Made of Money´s last blog ..Ham Leftovers Anyone? =-.
Good job Tom, and congrats on your ranking.
It is nice to be rewarded after all the hard work it takes to get there!
Thanks for hosting.
.-= Dr Dean´s last blog ..Filing Your Taxes: A List of Seven Changes This Year =-.
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