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February 2014 Month in Review: Money
This was one of those rare months where we were way over budget and were in the red at the end of the month. We had a crazy high power bill because of the unusually cold weather and we made a really stupid mistake that took a pretty penny to clean up. We came in under budget with our groceries, which almost never happens, but that doesn’t help us because we save the differential. The Everyday … Read entire article »
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Blog Update January – February 2014
This month I maintained the progress I made last month in terms of traffic, but the visitors were buoyed by the three posts I shared on my personal FB page. Apparently people in my life are very interested in effective frugal measures! FinCon14 early bird tickets went on sale this month and I BOUGHT MINE! (The financial details will be in next month’s report because I did it after February 15.) I’m committed to paying for … Read entire article »
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January 2014 Month in Review: Money
Big spending month for us! We had several large expenses come out of our targeted savings accounts and almost no money go in. Kyle finally convinced me to upgrade to the Moto X on my Republic Wireless service. We upgraded my plan to the unlimited talk/text/date with 3G for $25/month so the ongoing monthly costs will be a couple dollars higher than they have been before. We’re going to experiment with the different plans pretty soon … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update December 2013 – January 2014
I had hoped that this month would be the one I got ahead in my posts, and I did a little bit but now I’m right back to writing 0-3 days in advance! I have plenty of ideas for posts still but keep putting off the ones that require more research. It’s disappointing that EPF’s traffic is lower than it was a year ago. Mostly I think that is from lost search engine traffic. I need … Read entire article »
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December 2013 Month in Review: Money
Given that this was December, we actually had a pretty normal spending month. We bought all of our Christmas presents, but the cost was reimbursed out of our Travel and Personal Gifts account, as was our spending on gas to get to my parents’ house for the holidays. Our discretionary spending was remarkably close to 100% across all five categories. We had an unusual number of miscellaneous purchases this month, but they were all fairly … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update November – December 2013
In this last month we celebrate the 2-year anniversary of EPF’s launch! I wrote a post about how blogging has enriched my life, both figuratively and literally. We also received a check that puts us in the black for the blog this year – our income exceeds our expenses. More on that in the Earning section below. In the last month, I’ve been late on getting up two posts. I have still maintained my perfectly consistent … Read entire article »
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November 2013 Month in Review: Money
Y’all, I screwed up this month. It’s only like half my fault, though. My paycheck is no longer being direct deposited since I switched payroll systems a few months ago. (How patient am I supposed to be with this? I submitted the paperwork for the new direct deposit in August.) So now I grab my paycheck on the last workday of the month and use my smartphone to deposit it to our Ally checking account. … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update October – November 2013
What do you know, we had a sneakily higher month for pageviews! I have been so discouraged by the analytics lately that I haven’t been paying much attention, so it was a nice surprise when I finally looked at the numbers. I’m sure it was due to my GRS guest post and the post I put up to direct new visitors to previous posts. It was our highest month for pagviews, though not quite the … Read entire article »
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October 2013 Month in Review: Money
Our finances are almost settled after our move – we’re just waiting on a refund from TWC (isn’t it always TWC that screws you up?). We spent a loooooot of money though – I’ll post about it once everything gets shaken out – so we’re going to devote our budget leftovers toward repaying ourselves until that’s done. This has been a pretty quiet month for us in the regular budget but a big one in targeted … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update September – October 2013
October 18th, 2013 | 24 Comments
This was kind of a weird month. Traffic was way down, but comments were quite a bit higher than usual. I find the comments more personally fulfilling, but for general blog growth (and getting more commenters) I want traffic to increase. Alexa also dropped a lot (that’s the desired direction) but MozRank decreased a little (not the desired direction). Analytics Data from September 16 to October 15, 2013 People who listen to us, as of October 15, … Read entire article »
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