Yakezie Challenge Carnival

Welcome to the 2nd edition of the Yakezie Challenge Carnival.

The Yakezie Challenge all started with The Samurai – Creating Powerful Friends: Samurai’s Alexa Ranking Challenge.  The Yakezie continued to evolve with the official Yakezie Alexa Rankings, the official Yakezie Twitter List and the official Yakezie Badge.

Last week marked the first official Yakezie Challenge Carnival hosted by Deliver Away Debt.  Next week’s host will be Daniel at Sweating The Big Stuff.

I’ve broken the carnival up by each blog’s goals and listed the blogger farthest from their goal first.  I’ve done my best to include their most recent posts (excluding roundups and reviews).  Enjoy!

The 200,000 Club

• $15,000 for a kidney? Sign me up! from @GrlRedBalloon
• Life Style Inflation: Why Your Savings Is Not Growing as Fast as Your Income from @PFNinja
  
• Avoiding Reactive Personal Finance from Beating Broke
• Lessons from the 2010 Winter Olympics from Chasing Prosperity
  
• Fix-It Friday: Know Your IRS Tax Forms from @rainydaysaver
  
• Manage Money By Living From Heaven Backwards from @onemoneydesign
• Day 22: Where Do You Draw Inspiration? from @151daysoff
• What’s your Latte Factor? from @youngandthrifty
• The 200,000 Mile Club from @MyMoneyMinute
• The 5 Books That Changed My Money Life from @foreignersfinan
• Maternity Coverage and Health Insurance Choices from @sahmCFO
• One Car Family This Week from @Elle_CM
• The Young and The Homeless from @littlehouse2009
• The Downside of Holding Physical Gold from The Amateur Financier
  
• Eco-Fraud Friday: How Green Is Your Sex Life? from @downturnliving
• Financial Lessons From Engineering from @FinEngr
• Financial D0-Overs from @SingleGuyMoney
• 10 Money-Saving Tips to Stash $10,000 – Tip #8 – Use Coupons For Everything! from @RedeemingRiches
• Free Life Insurance Quotes from @clarifinancial
• Cut The Fat – Losing Things You Don’t Need from @frugalzeitgeist
• Sabotaged Financial Lessons For My Son from @Money_Reasons
• Elizabeth Gilbert and (Ex) Husband Michael Cooper On Money from @wellheeledblog
• Why This 25 Year Old Should NOT Try To Make Extra Money from @NealFrankle
• 7 Disability Insurance Add-on Features from @EvolutionWealth
• I’m a friend whore from @punchdebt
• Menu Plan Monday: Weight Loss Happy from @moneyfunk

The 100,000 Club

• Could You Be Content While In Debt from @deliverawaydebt
  
• Uses for Mason Jars from @ultmoneyblog
• EOD Short: Episode 1 – Behavior Meets Reality from @enemyofdebt
• Don’t Blame Others for Your Debt Get Up and Do Something About It! from @mjtm
• Car depreciation and maintenance from @extremejacob
• Volatility, inflation and asset class returns from @monevator
• Not-so-bad news is the new good news from @MBAbreifs
• How To Live With Bad Credit (Half of Us Do!) from @FiscalFizzle
• Kids and Money – It is Never too Early to Start from @SuburbanDollar
• How to Discuss Your Friend’s Credit Card Debt from @cc_chaser
• Life in the Cheap Lane from @DanielPacker
• Should You Keep “Emergency Cash” At Home from 20sMoney
• How Does Society Value Additional Time for Your Dying Loved Ones from @EverydayFinance
  
• Property Tax Deferral For Young Families A Good Idea? from @CanadianFinance
• Is a Savings Account Better Than Buying Shares? from @plantingdollars
• Why the Gym is a Waste of Money from @fiscalgeek

The 50,000 Club

• Combating the Closing Techniques – The Assumptive Close from @leanlifecoach
  
• Is It Okay To Copy Your Children’s DVDs from @freefrombroke
• Smiles Are Free from @budgetsaresexy
• Question of the Week: Who Does Your Car Service? from @ptmoney
• Saving Money- An American Virtue Reborn from @MattJabs
• Sometimes Saving Money Is About Principle from @financialsamura

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