I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…

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It is the start of a new month, and as such, I like to look back over the past month and look at how things went.  The ones about my finances and related topics will come tomorrow and Wednesday, today I want to take the time to thank the top ten blog referrers to I’ve Paid For This Twice Already… in April.  This month I am doing things a little differently - besides supplying a link to the blogs so you can check them out for yourselves if you wish, I’m also going to pick a stellar post from each blog in April.  I hope you find some interesting reading along the way from the blogs that help spread the word about Paid Twice and make this blog what it is today.  Thanks to all the blogs that refer traffic to me!

Without further ado, here are the top ten referrers for April to Paid Twice and a post I recommend from last month for each one:

• 1.  Being Frugal
  • You Tell Me:  Urban Homesteading.  I have this idea in my head that if I tried, I could grow all my own food.  Maybe not, but I still want to try.
• 2.  Like Merchant Ships
  • Thrift Store Nemesis:  Do you have a nemesis?  Sometimes I think I have too many…
• 3.  The Simple Dollar
  • The Snowball Effect:  How Little Moves Now Can Create Huge Effects Later.  It’s all in the title.  A great read on one of my favorite topics.
• 4. No Credit Needed
  • Debt Reduction Guide.  This is actually from May 1st but it is a summary of a lot of great posts on NCN.  It would make a great e-book, I think. 
• 5.  Gather Little By Little
  • Driving A BMW and Dealing With Temptation.  I don’t do this well in the scrapbook store, which is why I just have to stay away completely.
• 6.  Cash Money Life
  • 9 Tips To save Money On Your Next Computer.  At some point when we are more financially stable, I will need to purchase a laptop.  Portability is becoming imperative for many of the miscellaneous ventures I am working at.  These tips should help me make a frugal choice!
• 7.  Mrs. Micah - Finance For A Freelance Life
  • Simple Banking - Alien Abduction Packet #1.  I should make one of these for my spouse.  I kind of have one but not in so much detail.
• 8.  Free Money Finance
  • Warehouse Clubs Are Worth The Annual Fee.  This is something I am still working through in my life - we don’t have Costco but we do have Sam’s Club - and I still haven’t joined because I hate the fee thing.  Argh.
• 9.  Moolanomy
  • The Cost of Road Rage and Aggressive Driving.  This is crazy!  What is wrong with people?  Seriously… poor Pinyo.  I hope they catch the creep.
• 10.  My Two Dollars
  • How To Clean Your House The Natural Way For Mere Pennies.  I keep saying I will become more natural with cleaners, and then I don’t.  But with a guide like this, how can I not?

Thanks to all the blogs, big and small, that refer traffic to me - almost 70% of my traffic is from referrals so without other blogs talking about me, this blog wouldn’t be growing anywhere near like it is!

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It is April (where does the time go!) so it is time to look back at March and thank the 10 blogs that sent the most traffic here through referrals. Without other blogs linking to me and recommending my stuff to their readers, a lot less people would visit and a lot less people would have found me, so thanks so much!!

So without further ado, here are the top ten referrers for March, and if a blog you’ve never read is listed, think about visiting them and seeing what they are about!

1. Free Money Finance - My snowflaking post is in the final two for the personal finance march madness competition and a lot of people have visited to read it. Thanks!! And don’t forget to vote this Saturday to push snowflaking to the top spot! The $500 prize for top post goes to the charity of the winner’s choosing, which in my case is The Make a Wish Foundation!
2. Being Frugal - who coincidentally has the other finalist post in the march madness competition… but you know I love ya Lynnae!
3. The Simple Dollar - who linked to my snowflaking post when it defeated his entry a few rounds ago, thanks! - this list seems to be march madness heavy
4. No Credit Needed - a perpetual top ten and one of my favorite blogs
5. Moolanomy - go M-Network!
6. Gather Little By Little - go M-Network!
7. Cash Money Life - go M-Network!
8. Mrs Micah: Finance for a Freelance Life - go M-Network!
9. My Two Dollars - go M-Network!
10. Snowflake Revolution - my snowflaking network, it you are a snowflaker, consider joining!

Thanks to all my referrers in helping March be a great month!! Even if you are not on this list, if you linked to me or referred your readers to me, I greatly appreciate you and what you’ve done!

Yes, I am a fan of the exclamation point today. Gratitude brings that out in me.

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It is the beginning of March, so time again to thank the top blog referrers of traffic to I’ve Paid For This Twice Already! Without other blogs linking to mine, I know that I wouldn’t have been able to grow anywhere near as fast as I have and most of my readers would not have found me yet. So thanks to all the blogs that link to me and recommend my blog! I truly appreciate it!

February was also an exciting month for me, I launched the Snowflake Revolution, which now has 37 members, and is growing every day. Look for exciting things to be happening there and if you write a blog that talks about using snowflaking to reduce debt, increasing savings or investments, or any other way to improve your financial health, consider joining the revolution!

Here is my list of top referrers, I included a few more than 10 this time because a few of them aren’t really “blogs” but are more blog aggregator/list type sites. But I appreciate those too!

1. Being Frugal
2. No Credit Needed
3. Frugal Hacks
4. Get Rich Slowly
5. Gather Little By Little
6. Mrs Micah - Finance for a Freelance Life
7. We’re In Debt
8. The Digerati Life
9. MSN Smart Spending
10. PF Blogs dot org
11. Moolanomy
12. My Two Dollars

Thanks again to all my referrers and if you referrer traffic to me and didn’t make the list - I still very much appreciate your recommendation to your readers!

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January was a huge month for I’ve Paid For This Twice Already… The blog passed 1000 RSS subscribers and 100,000 unique visitors! A huge amount of my overall traffic comes from the other blogs that link to me, providing new readers an invitation to come visit my blog. I wanted to take this time to acknowledge the top ten referrers to the blog, excluding search engines, and say thank you so much for linking to me, adding me to your blogrolls, and recommending my writing to your readers. Thanks!

Without further ado, here are the top ten referrers last month:

1. Get Rich Slowly
2. Being Frugal
3. No Credit Needed
4. Frugal Hacks
5. Gather Little By Little
6. Moolanomy
7. Mrs. Micah
8. The Digerati Life
9. We’re In Debt
10. PFBlogs dot org

I can’t wait to see what February brings! Down with debt!

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This past week, thanks to a post that really spoke to a lot of people out there and garnered almost 10,000 visits all on its own, my blog passed 100,000 unique visitors and 200,000 pageviews from August to today. I’m also terribly close to entering the 4-digit realm with subscribers, yesterday I was even up to 988. All these big milestones amaze me and I thank you all very much for reading, commenting, and subscribing!

In the link love tradition, here are some posts that really spoke to me this week:

• Gather Little By Little: Confessions of a Personal Finance Blogger. Glblguy opens up and shares that he hasn’t been practicing what he preaches lately, and swears to get back on the wagon. Good stuff.
• Being Frugal: Your Past Influences Your Present. I really feel this way as well - a lot of “gut instincts” I feel are really remnants of my upbringing.
• My Two Dollars: Interview with Lynnae of Being Frugal. I thought this was a cute idea and I loved Lynnae’s interview! Look for my own interview in a few weeks…
• Cash Money Life: What Does Being Frugal Mean to You? Some good thoughts and ideas here!
• No Credit Needed: Back to the Basics: How to Get Out of Debt. NCN was one of my very first bloggin inspirations, and he continually relates back to the very core of his readers - the in-debt and need-help ones.
• Remodeling This Life:  What Makes a Winner?  Being able to let go of failure and come out and do it again.
• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity:  I’m Not an Early Adopter of Technology, Are You?  Nope, I am so not.  Part cheap, part frugal, part lazy,part broke… I never have the newest it thing.

And instead of a PaidTwice Rewind, I’m rewinding to a series I took part in, the Money Matters For All Ages Project! it wrapped up this week, and here is the complete list of topics and participants:

• Introduction at My Dollar Plan
• Preschoolers at I’ve Paid for This Twice Already
• Children and Pre-Teens at Being Frugal
• Teenagers at DebtFREE-Revolution and Gather Little by Little
• College Age at Mrs. Micah
• The Twenties at Remodeling This Life and Cash Money Life
• The Thirties at Moolanomy and My Two Dollars
• The Forties at Credit Withdrawal
• The Fifties at Millionaire Money Habits and Credit Withdrawal
• The Sixties and beyond at Chance Favors and Rocket Finance
• Retirement at Four Pillars and Plonkee Money
• Wrap up and highlights at My Dollar Plan

Have a great week and do some deep thinking of your own!

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