March 2017 Blog Income Report
This Month’s Top Post: DIY Cinder Block Garden for Small Yards– 308 Views This Month’s Runner Up: February 2017 Blog Income Report – 281 Views This month was absolutely crazy for me. We had over 20 showings on the house and almost all of my free time outside of work was spent doing something for the house. I did manage to get my April posts ready despite having a rough schedule. Somehow, even though I wasn't able to work much on the blog in March, I ended up with the most page-views I've had recently. I've only ever had one higher month ...
Tailwind Growth for the Average Blogger
This post contains affiliate links. Welcome back to the blog! Last July I mentioned that I had just signed up for Tailwind. I've now been using Tailwind for about 8 months and have definitely seen growth. I decided to write this post because I see a ton of posts showing how bloggers grow so much in just a couple of months. Many of those posts are quite misleading though. Perhaps the blog is new, but the blogger is well seasoned. Or, the blogger spent hours upon hours working on their blog during those months. I'd like to say I'm an average ...
Say Goodbye to Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Forward Budgeting and the Digital System
This post is part of a series. To start the series from the beginning, click here. To browse through the series, click here. By now you are familiar with both forward budgeting and the digital system. There are different tools that can be used to track forward rolling digital finances as with the other systems. Envelopes While it is completely feasible to use an envelope system for your budget, it may be a bit more complicated for this type of budgeting. You can use a printable, a digital envelope tracking system, or tangible envelopes. This system is a bit more ...
DIY Cinder Block Garden for Small Yards
Isn't it always that you get your house just how you want it and then you move? I literally just redid my backyard last summer. This was supposed to be my first full gardening season with the garden. Of course though, we will be moving in the middle of the season. I started making my garden by removing the grass in the area of the rock garden and cinder block garden. In only the rock section, I laid out some weed block. In the cinder block garden, I wanted the roots to be able to go low into the ground ...
