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Introspection Can Help You Spend Less on Your Social Life

September 7, 2012 7 Comments

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The following is a guest post from Emily as part of Yakezie blog swap. Emily is an engineering graduate student in North Carolina and blogs about maintaining financial sanity through life transitions at Evolving Personal Finance. Please welcome Emily and enjoy the post. You can read my post at Emily’s blog. 

I’ve been there myself: to meet my savings goals while still paying my other bills, I needed to reduce my spending on going out – but I didn’t want to sacrifice time with my friends.  Before making small changes here and there, I encourage you to reflect on what you like and don’t like about your current social life and what is within your ability to change.

How Do You Prefer to Socialize?

What are your favorite modes of interaction with your friends and acquaintances?  Here are some possibilities:

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Weekly Roundup – Hectic Work

March 11, 2012 2 Comments

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This week was very hectic for me, spent two nights at work out of 7. When issues come, they come in bunches for sure. But that didn’t prevent me from sneaking at twitter stream and reading some of the great articles.

This was a very hectic week at work, had no time think of some great personal finance topics to write. One good thing was the hectic schedule meant no eating out. I ended up working even on Saturday. Needless to say, SMB wasn’t very happy but then, she realized that occasional slog is part of the day job.

We had an issue with one of the backend applications that impacted our cardholders. So this had to be fixed as soon as it was possible. It was great to see the teamwork and enthusiasm that my team showed.

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Never Cut Back On Things You Cherish For

November 4, 2011 14 Comments

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This article is part of the yakezie blog swap event where bloggers swap articles with each other in order to reach out to new audience. This is good for readers as well, as they get to taste a different perspective on personal finance from a different writer.

This article is written by Shanendoah at The Dog Ate My Wallet, a blog about managing your personal finances in a world full of easy excuses. If you wish, visit her blog to read my story.

The truth is, there are probably a number of things I never go cheap on- things like tires or high end kitchen gadgets –things that I expect to last a number of years, and the reason I don’t go cheap is that the pricier items actually last longer than the cheaper ones, making them, in fact, cheaper in the long run.

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Sunday Round Up And Monthly Blog Update: September 2011

October 16, 2011 4 Comments

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This is Sunday morning and in next 1 hours I have to finish this update before going out to run errand. This week-end was relatively less troublesome compared to last three weeks as I am going through the most hectic phase of work life right now.

It’s mid of October and finally I got a chance to sit down and write about the progress OCAAT is made in terms of pure stats for the month of September. The highlight is this blog is still growing, and, as compared to August result, I had a 150% traffic increase in September.

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One Cent Sunday Round Up and Blog Insights

September 25, 2011 19 Comments

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Its Sunday and its time to unplug and get into a different blogging mode, when I become too personal, and, give insight into blogs and the bloggers.

I received a mail asking why OCAAT doesn’t display any advertising banner.

Well, thank you for your mail, I am honored that you went beyond just commenting and asked this question via email. One Cent At A Time doesn’t display ad, for the lack of better words, advertisers don’t yet consider us worth of investment.

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Sunday Round Up And A Few Source Of Inspiration

September 18, 2011 6 Comments

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As promised in my last weekly roundup, starting this week my roundup is an open stage for any one to enter, not just Yakezie challengers. Throughout the week I visit a lot of  other blogs for inspiration and knowledge. This week, I will present some of those articles which made me think and which I found a little different from regular ‘save money on this’ and ‘save money on that’ articles.

I do write ‘save money’ articles often but, frankly speaking almost all possible ways of saving money by a common man have been discovered already and Google is quiet efficient in getting those articles to you if you need. I agree that basic stuffs need to be refreshed regularly hence, I will continue to write many ‘save money’ articles in future.

A typical blogger is a good reader, unless you read you can’t write. Shakespeare and Dickens read almost all classics of their time and then surpassed all of them with their creation. We read many blog posts each day. We need to keep writing and for that we need to fuel our cells continuously, this fuel comes from  continuous reading, its like two wheels of a bike, if one moves the other has to move and when one stops the other stops.

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Weekly Yakezie Challenger Round Up And Blog Update

September 4, 2011 21 Comments

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Readers welcome to the 9th Yakezie challenger round up and monthly blog update. Things change really quick in the blogging world. This roundup was once a regular weekday feature.  And my weekends used to be no-new-post days. Now, I am struggling to get a day out, last week I hosted yakezie carnival and didn’t have any free slot to push in this round up and this happen twice in last one month that I didn’t publish challenger roundup. Moreover, I have to now publish blog update and round up in a single post.

I get excited to read emails asking me when’s my round up going out. I love that!

I am thankful to all who search in Google to get to my round up (hey, there is a search option on my blog too), I regularly see incoming search traffic containing “one cent yakezie challenger roundup” or similar which is a great enthusiasm on your part and tells me some of you still have a high value for this round up. I love the fellow bloggers who comment or give me a link love back.

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Monthly Blog Update

July 17, 2011 17 Comments

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It has been 1 month since I joined blog network Yakezie. With a big smile on face, let me tell you that it was the best blog decision I ever made. After starting with first post Why This Blog on 03/01/2011, I was getting no where with this blog, for next three months, you can read about my frustrated feeling in these two posts, ‘Why I am failing as blogger‘ and ‘Why people should not follow my blog‘.

Just like me, you might also find that writing a finance blog will help keep you motivated when you are trying to save money. Keeping a record and sharing your success through a blog, will positively encourage you to keep going. There are various small things you can do to start saving some dollars, such as checking comparison sites like Love Money for the best deals available, searching for online restaurant vouchers, or even going to the supermarket in the evening because many items are reduced at this time. The key is to find the balance between spending and saving.

Last month was fabulous, when slowly traffic started coming in, I got inspired and wrote down an article which best describes why I am writing this blog.

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3rd Yakezie Challenger Round Up

July 13, 2011 14 Comments

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The round-up is in its 3rd week now, and already it has become one of the biggest Yakezie round ups, excluding the carnivals.

BTW, if you want to know all about carnivals, there is a full-page of wealth awaiting for your mouse (PC) or finger (smart phone) click, 🙂  Broke professional has that page.  Many thanks to her for the tedious job she did to bring this page up.

This week the number of blogs participating in this round-up is 25, an awesome increase from first week’s 7 blogs. With new bloggers signing up every day, we will see further increase in coming weeks. If this continues, one fine day I can claim this round-up as the web’s biggest weekly blog round-up 🙂

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2nd Weekly Yakezie Challenger Round Up

July 6, 2011 19 Comments

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It has been 7 days since I started publishing Yakezie round ups. Last week 7 blogs appeared in the round-up. So much have been changed since then and the round-up was so much publicized that this week there are 20 blogs being covered here.

Many thanks to the authors for the show of hands or I noticing their hands in the crowd, here is your best creation over the last week that I read from your RSS feed in Google reader. Order is random, as it appear on my reader.

The blogging machine Crystal, with her latest challenger site How I make money Blogging (Alexa 925K) is day by becoming a money machine too. She explains how she ended up as a staff writer for other blogs.

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