Beating Broke

Welcome to yet another weekend wrap-up.  We’re gonna mix it up a little bit this week.  I want to update everybody on where Beating Broke stands in the Yakezie Challenge, as well as give every body a few extra links to check out this Memorial Day weekend.

So, first off, the Yakezie update.  This is the first update I’ve given since joining the challenge.  The basics of the challenge was to join a group of like-minded bloggers and attempt to achieve an alexa rank of <200,000, then 100,000.  When I first joined the challenge, my alexa rank was 1,445,837.  I had a long way to go.  And a short time to get there.  (Watch ol’ bandit run!)  Today, I’m happy to say, my rank sits at 151,578!  Lookout 100,000, here I come!  It’s been incredible, and the most incredible part of it has been the Yakezie participants.  Each and every one of them is incredibly helpful and each is trying to bring everybody else along for the ride.  Officially, the challenge was meant to end on July 4, 2010.  And the first phase will.  However, it looks like the group will continue on together in some form.  There’s even a website in the works!  I hope that you, as my readers, have enjoyed my time as a Yakezie challenge participant.  I know it’s meant more content produced.  There’s something about having a group of peers pushing you that gives that extra motivation to do more.  I’m looking forward to hitting 100,000.

Note: If you’d like to help me hit 100,000, you can download the alexa toolbar for your browser.  Then, alexa will count your visits and help improve my ranking.  Here’s the download link: http://www.alexa.com/toolbar

Now, for some links.  Normally, I include links from sites that I’ve enjoyed over the last several weeks, Yakezie or not.  But, since this wrap-up is kind of dedicated to the Yakezie update, all of the links in this wrap-up will be to Yakezie participating blogs.  Enjoy!

• Zach Younkin: Yakezie Roundup #8
• Cash Flow Sherpas: The Latest Employment Requirement, Good Credit
• Consumerism Commentary: Is it time to give up on the Stock Market
• Smart on Money: Don’t fall prey to a victim mentality, be responsible for your actions and live free
• Frugal Confessions: Sometimes it’s easier to preach than to practice
• More Style than Cash: Frugal Gift Packaging
• Inexpensively: Top 10 Budget saving books
• The Saved Quarter: Treating Upset Tummies Cheap
• Money Help for Christians: Faith based investing – Is it a good idea?
• Learn Save Invest: Billionaires who live below their means
• Eventual Millionaire: 10 ways to increase your productivity
• Bible Debt: Faithfully Rich
• Simple Life in France: Technology and Entertainment making us Unhappy
• Single Mom, Rich Mom: The High Cost of Raising Children Myth
• Narrow Bridge Adventures: Invest in Chocolate Bonds
• Cool to be Frugal: Baby on the Way… Back in a while! (Congratulations!)
• Saving Money Today: The financial impact of the Super Bowl
• Personal Finance Journey: Bringing Snacks into a Movie Theater – Frugal or Unethical
• One Money Design: Emergency fund verses getting out of debt
• The Amateur Financier: Deep Thoughts – Tipping
• Eliminate the Muda: Thought Experiment – Cottages
• Free From Broke: Yakezie Carnival

Wow.  That’s a lot of links.  And that’s only the ones that I thought were excellent.  There’s nearly 100 Yakezie blogs to choose from, so it’s quite the task to choose from them all.

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