Final Four

I didn't make it to this round, but it's down to the Final Four at Free Money Finance's March Madness contest. He's giving away a free 1GB USB drive to a commenter, so head on over and vote!

March Madness Elite Eight

This is giving "bracket creep" a whole new meaning: I've hung in and made it to the next round of Free Money Finance's March Madness blog tournament. Thank you to everyone who has voted so far to help me try to win a donation to the Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation. The next games should be posted over the weekend. If you haven't checked it out yet, now's the time!

March Madness Sweet Sixteen

Ok, here it is: please vote on the next game in the March Madness tournament at Free Money Finance!

I Made it to the Sweet Sixteen!

Free Money Finance has posted an update to the March Madness contest: not only will the winner get $500 donated towards the charity of his or her choice, but the 2nd place runner up will get a $250 donation, and 3rd and 4th place will get $100 donated. I'd love to have some more money go to the Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation, so keep an eye on Free Money Finance this week as he posts the next games so you can vote by commenting at his site.
Thanks again to everyone who has been voting so far, and remember that this contest features some of the best personal finance posts of the year, so it's a great resource!

March Madness Final 32

March Madness continues at Free Money Finance! One of my posts made it to the 2nd round, so please comment with your vote if you want "Lessons Learned from Diet Books" to continue to the next round! I'm up against tough competition, vying for that $500 charitable donation! Don't delay, as voting is only open for the next day or two...
Thanks for everyone who voted last time!

March Madness!

It's time for March Madness, even in the world of personal finance blogging. Free Money Finance is once again hosting a tournament in which the best personal finance blog post will triumph! You can download the bracket here, and see the rounds that are being played so far here. Two of my posts are in contention:

Game 26: Lessons Learned from Diet Books: How to Think Like a Rich Person
and
Game 27: Rule #16: Who Do You Think You Are?

The contest will be decided mostly by reader feedback so please comment at Free Money Finance to vote for the posts you like best in each game. (In other words, vote for ME!!) The champion blogger wins a donation of $500 towards the charity of his or her choice-- my pick is Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation. Regardless of who wins, the posts in the contest are well worth reading-- it's a best-of-the-best collection of personal finance articles. Enjoy!

Does This Blog Make My Head Look Big?

Whoo-hoo, I just have to brag that I won the Make Your Nut Personal Finance Haiku Challenge! Now I can add "prize-winning poet" to my biography...

Thanks to several helpful comments from readers, I decided to submit this entry:

Checkbook

Sad, lonely checkbook:
Blue pages, rarely torn out.
I pay online now.

Thanks also go out to the people who voted for me to win!

The $20 prize money will be going to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Do You Haiku?

If you do, check out Make Your Nut's Personal Finance Haiku Challenge. Anyone can submit a haiku on any personal finance topic, and they'll be judged by readers of the site. Entries are being accepted until midnight on Friday June 15th and the winner will receive a $20 cash prize.

I just love contests, so I'm going to submit one of these:

Sad, lonely checkbook:
Blue pages, rarely torn out.
I pay online now.


No one saves money,
All so people can keep up
With someone named Jones.


Live within your means:
Sounds so simple, but try it
On minimum wage.

Which one would you pick?

More March Madness

There is another blog bracket contest going on, this time hosted by Martin over at MoneyBlogSite. I didn't make it into FMF's March Madness as my emails kept being rejected by his spam filter, but my post "How to Ask for a Raise" has made it to the 2nd round in Martin's contest, so check it out and give me some votes! The clock is running out and I'm in danger of elimination!

March Madness Contest

There's a fun contest going on over at Free Money Finance: a March Madness bracket-style competition that will have 64 personal finance blog posts going head to head, with one of them ultimately reigning supreme! Posts will be judged by these criteria, by FMF himself and the comments of readers:

1) practicality of the post
2) how interesting/provocative/unique it is
3) the "personal-ness" of it
4) its impact on net worth

If you want to enter, the deadline is 8am on Monday Feb. 26, so hurry up!

I'm hoping one of my submissions will make it... if so, if you liked any of these posts, head over to Free Money Finance to comment effusively and help me win!

Rule #11: See No Evil, Hear No Evil

How to Ask For a Raise

I Am Breaking All the Rules

Rule #13: Know Thyself


And even if my own posts don't make it, I'll be following the contest on a daily basis: the entries should provide excellent reading all around.