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My New Writing Gig: Financial Highway

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4 years ago if you would have asked me what a blog was I would have not been totally sure. Although I have always been tech savvy the word blog repelled me a little as I felt it was probably related to hormonal teenagers and angst agaisnt some pop start who just started seeing a [...]

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Proud Yakezie’s Finally Get A Place They Can Call Home

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For those of you who don’t know (yeah, yeah I know I talk about it all the time!), I am a proud member of the Yakezie group of personal finance bloggers. The group has helped me build some great blogging friends, find awesome quality PF and Frugal info and help push me to make vast [...]

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A Sunday Yakezie Post Roundup

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Here in Egypt Sunday is actually the start of the work week. In Islam Friday is the holy day so the weekend is Friday/Saturday. I try to follow this and take Fri and Sat as my weekend but it’s still psychologically hard to make myself motivated to work on a Sunday (years of conditioning!). One [...]

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Update: I’m Back, Did Ya Miss Me?…. Oh and Yakezie….

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I know many of you did not notice but things have been a little quiet in the FZ quarters for the last 3 weeks….. That’s because I was away on holiday in Sweden. I spent a fair amount of cash but not over our final budget and I think I gathered a good amount of [...]

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My New Guitar, Smart Spending or a Wasted Expense?

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Last week I finally gave in to a long term desire and purchased a shiny new, but basic, classical guitar. I look at my guitar and I see it needs playing, while my wallet gently weeps…. The back story and decision to purchase…. I have owned guitars in the past, at one point I had [...]

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Welcome Sweating The Big Stuff and Clarifinancial Readers

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If you arrived here from my guest post “How Yoga Improved My Finances” on Sweating The Big Stuff or my interview “Fresh Perspective Interview with Forest Parks” on Clarifinancial then thanks for reading, I would love to know what you thought…. I am very thankful to Daniel for giving me the chance to guest post [...]

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Condom Soccer Balls, Not Just For Hard Times

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He he, I hope you liked the title….. but this article isn’t all jokes (thank god, I am pretty awful at them!) I was particularly touched this morning by the ingenuity displayed in the video below. The kids wanted a soccer ball, so they used the materials to hand to get exactly what they wanted. [...]

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Happy Earth Day, Now What?

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Today is Earth Day. It marks 40 years of this event yet after 40 years of trying hard things still get worse and worse. Pollution related issues are at a high, we are using up all our natural resources and I don’t think anybody can sensibly say that we are in any way improving our [...]

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Would you like $100 for doing nothing…. well almost nothing

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This is just a quick post to let you all know about a very simple competition on a fellow Yalezie Personal Finance blog to win $100. You could win just by dropping a comment or tweeting about the competition. How could you not enter? Now if you did win $100 what would you do with [...]

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Easy Peasy Yakezie!

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This is my announcement post to say I am joining the The Yakezie Alexa Challenge. Now before I go on about this you may want to know what Alexa is and also what Yakezie is….. I know the answer to the Alexa bit but not sure on Yakezie, however I want to be able to [...]