Congratulations to Sharon for winning our $25 Amazon Giveaway!
Sharon’s entry was #571 out of 585 total entries. Sharon, you lucky gal!
A big thank you to everyone who entered our giveaway and helped us with social media. Our Facebook traffic is starting to pick up. Even better yet, I met one of my blogging goals that I’ve been working on for a long time.
Retire By 40 is #98 on the Wisebread’s top 100 most popular personal finance blogs! When I first joined, I think there were about 400 blogs on the list, but now I see there are 765 blogs. That’s pretty crazy. Wisebread uses a lot of social media metrics, so thank you for liking us on Facebook and following us on Twitter. I haven’t been as active on social media lately because I’m taking some time off to be a stay-at-home dad, but I’ll pick it up soon.
Blog Roundup
Young and Thrifty gave 9 Reasons why she deactivated Facebook. I haven’t been active on my personal Facebook account at all. I check it maybe once a week to see if there are any breaking news, but most of my friends are not active either. I’m much more active on Retire By 40′s Facebook account.
Rachael shared – What’s it like being unemployed? @ Financial Samurai.
How to make your spouse love frugality @ Mr. Money Mustache. MMM gave some tips on how to convert a spender to frugality. Luckily Mrs. RB40 had always been frugal and I didn’t have to work too hard to convince her. 
The ABC of Sustainability at Sustainable Life Blog. Great list of things you can do to be more environmental friendly.
Free Money Finance wrote the best credit cards offers and promotions. See if your card compare favorably to these.
Dividend Ninja is building his portfolio for retirement with dividends and bonds. It sounds like he’ll have a nice early retirement.
Jen’s Beginner Blog challenge post at Master the Art of Saving. Jen shares some lessons she learned from her blogging career.
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Congrats on breaking Wisebread’s Top 100! Woooo hoooo! Thanks for sharing my blogging challenge post, Joe. Hopefully nobody will end up making the same mistakes I made.
Have a great week.
Thank you! It’s pretty awesome to break top 100. I think that’s a huge accomplishment.