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April 2013 Month in Review: Money
This month was a low one for spending and therefore a great one for getting our budget back on track. Last month we blew our budget and had to transfer money into our checking account for the first time in like a year or more! This month was just low on everything – food, gas, targeted savings expenditures. But we still had lot of good times! We went to California for five days, met with … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update March – April 2013
This has been a fun month on EPF. I’m happy to be back to blogging full time and being a bit more ahead on my editorial calendar. I’m excited to be working on a big 4-part series of posts! I am way more ridiculously excited about this than I should be – two people have signed up with Republic Wireless using my referral link! If they stay customers for 30 days I get a $19 credit … Read entire article »
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March 2013 Month in Review: Money
While last month was characterized by super-stress, this one has been characterized by super-fun! My prelim was on March 4 and I’ve been having a great time since then getting back to work. Kyle and I also both had additional presentations to give to various audiences this month, so our work has been more slide-making and reflecting on previous work than generating new data. We hosted a lot of social stuff this month, which was costly … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update February – March 2013
I sure am glad this month is over! I passed my prelim on March 4 and was fairly busy and stressed leading up to that date. Now I feel so much closer to graduation! Unfortunately my relative absence from the blogosphere resulted in lower traffic and comments on EPF this month, but after our great Jan/Feb it’s not been too bad. Here’s to a better next month! Guest Posts This month we had three guest posts from fellow … Read entire article »
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February 2013 Month in Review: Money
This has been a stressful month for us. As I’ve mentioned about a hundred times on here, I’m preparing for my preliminary exam. This stress and busy-ness has translated to doing and spending less, though we still socialized with our friends in free settings quite a bit. The Everyday Budget Our non-discretionary categories aren’t changing at all now – INCOME, SAVINGS, GIVING, rent, and internet – which you can find in our last budget iteration. Kyle also … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update January – February 2013
EPF is now a Google Page Rank 3!!! We were a 2 for what felt like forever. This month we also saw a big increase in traffic and we are finally dipping our toes into guest posting and advertisements. Kyle told me we have made $10 all-time so far and when I responded with a dismissive tone he said, “Are you not happy with that??” I think we are going to pursue mainly affiliate links. Award … Read entire article »
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January 2013 Month in Review: Money
January was a fun month for us! We went skiing with some friends, got a lot accomplished at work, started watching basketball socially again, went out for Restaurant Week, had a picnic, and had the excitement of two snowfalls. We went over our grocery budget again (again, again… what kind of budgeter am I?) and you’ll have scroll down to see our bottom line. The Everyday Budget Our non-discretionary categories aren’t changing at all now – INCOME, … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update December 2012 – January 2013
This month Kyle really got engaged with working on the back end of the blog! We added some new advertisements and I bought How I Make Money Blogging so we can try to implement some of those strategies. This month EPF was added to the Wisebread Top 1000. I applied to get on it quite a while ago and am looking forward to improving our rank. EPF was also featured as the site of the month … Read entire article »
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December 2012 Month in Review: Money
I found tracking and budgeting very difficult this month – it was the combination of lots of spending on Christmas gifts and that we were traveling for over 1/3 of the month. Sticking to our discretionary budget was nearly a lost cause and not even our targeted savings accounts could save us completely! Zeroing-out-wise, it turns out that you can’t spend $460.34 on cell phones in a month (on a budget of $95) and expect … Read entire article »
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Blog Statistics Update November – December 2012
I guess the biggest news around here is that Kyle and I have discovered that working on EPF is a great tool for procrastinating the real work we should be doing for our PhDs! We finally have ads on the site to test out the placements we like before we try negotiating for private ads. Plus Kyle updated our social media and sharing buttons high on the right sidebar – please subscribe/follow/fan/share! Our traffic really picked … Read entire article »
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