It’s been another very good week around here. I’ve been getting out a lot more lately and as a result haven’t been putting as much time into this blog.
So I apologize if I didn’t make it over to your blog to comment this week. Since a lot of us are very busy, I’m always up for helping each other in different ways instead if you’re open to it.
The main reason I’ve been extra busy this week is that I’ve been getting into dating more. Actually it’s been one special girl in particular lately. I was pretty tempted to write a post about the situation with her finances, but now that I’ve told her my blog name I don’t want to risk offending. Instead I’ll have to see if one of the popular blogs would accept it as a guest post where she won’t find it lol. Does anyone else find it super awkward knowing someone is learning some of your secrets you’ve shared on your blog semi-anonymously?
Anyways, she’s a great girl and in case she’s reading this, I don’t hold her financial situation against her. It does take some time to really accept though.
On a totally different topic, can anyone help me out with my best credit card offers page? I’m doing this movement where I get lots of other bloggers to mention it for my own personal gain 
Oh wait, I guess I can’t disguise credit card promotion that way. Fine, I’ll help you out too if you can help. Who wouldn’t want Modest Money owing them a favor?
Ok enough rambling, onto where this blog was mentioned recently…
Modest Money Around The Web
I’m too lazy to check past acknowledgements, but this might be my biggest acknowledgement list yet. I guess once you get nominated as a finalist for 2 Plutus awards all kinds of people want to be your friend. That and I’ve got some awesome, supportive blogging friends. Thank you everyone. I’m going to have to save up and buy you all a drink at FinCon in 2013.
The Round Table – August 24, 2012 on Money Smart Guides
You Gave Me Hope This Week – LinkLuv Friday on Blue Pelican Loans
The VIP Club – Weekly Roundup 2nd Edition on Club Thrifty
Friday’s Link Loving on Bog Of Debt
Mr. CBB’s Blog Post Picks Of The Week Aug 24,2012 on Canadian Budget Binder
Modest Money’s Best Credit Card Offers page – check it out! on My Canuck Buck
Sunday Loves on Thirty Six Months
Sunday Personal Finance Reading – August 26, 2012 on Hacking The Bank
Weekly Wrap-Up, Mentions and Good Reads August 26, 2012 on iHeart Budgets
Weekend Business and Blog Roundup – Aug 25th on Freedom Thirty Five Blog
Places I’ve Been: Week Ending August 26 on Edward Antrobus
Weekly Roundup #1 on This Is Common Cents
Quick Hits and Weekend Reading on Young Adult Money
Saturday Links & Blogs I Love: Graduation Edition on When Life Gives You Lemons
Friends of the Family: Still Painting Edition on The Family Finances
Carnivals, Mentions, & Weekend Reading #26 on Work Save Live
Sublime Saturday Assemblage #34 on Master The Art of Saving
The Buy and Hold Strategy Can Kill Your Portfolio on Street Smart Finance
Personal Finance Week in Review for August 26 on One Smart Dollar
Updates: August 19 – 25 on The Outlier Model
My Week in Review – Aug 24, 2012 on My Jam Packed Life
Weekend Ramblings – Globe and Mail Criticism Edition on Young and Thrifty
The Carnival of Financial Camaraderie #47 on My University Money
Carnival of Money Pros on Simple Finance Blog
Nerdy Finance #8 on Nerd Wallet
The Sunday Review – Top Posts of the Week on Savvy Scot
Can’t Keep My Eyes Off These Blogs #2 on Eyes On The Dollar
Lifestyle Carnival – “I Hosted the Carnival and All I Got Was This Tee-Shirt” edition on The Free Financial Advisor
3 Reasons Not To Invest In An Index Fund on Mr. Everyday Dollar
Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #251 – August 24, 2012 on Fiscal Phoenix
Carnival of Retirement: Calculated Risk or Foolish Mistake Edition on My Family Finances
Credit Card Pros and Cons on The Family Finances
Fearless Men’s Weekly Round-Up | August 30, 2012 on Fearless Men
What did I do to deserve getting mentioned on so many great blogs? So at what stage am I supposed to turn into one of those egotistical bloggers who isn’t willing to help anyone but himself? It seems like a lot of the big bloggers eventually evolve into that.
No I don’t ever want to end up like that. I may sell out with more and more ads over time, but I’ll always try to help out my readers and blogging friends. If I ever start slipping, please send me an angry e-mail or call me out on twitter.
Never do I want to become the Lebron James of the finance blogosphere. Speaking of basketball though, how about the Lakers?! I know it’s old news now, but they’re gonna dominate. Down with the king!
I think it would be interesting to write about your lady friend’s finances!!! You know I would read it!
Thanks for the mention and have a great day!
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I probably will write about it, but just not on here. I’m definitely looking at finances more now that I’m a finance blogger and at that age where buying a home and settling down is coming soon.
Well – at least she’s told you her financial situation! It’s early but it’s better to know asap. Good luck with your new dating situation Jeremy! I haven’t been commenting as much either. It’s been so busy lately!
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She was pretty hesitant to tell me at first, but I did appreciate her honesty. It’s a lot better than finding out about someone’s finances well into a relationship. I’m sure you have been quite busy with the new job and new dog. I’d love to get a dog sometime soon, but it’s definitely going to have to wait until my blog gets to a more self sustained level.
I understand why you are reluctant to share your new lady friend’s financial situation. It’s great that you are helping her. And, I also like your public commitment not to change your attitude towards newbie bloggers after achieving success. That speaks a volume about your character my friend. Thanks for the mention.
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Well I can’t very well run a blog called Modest Money and turn into one of those jerks that is always bragging about how much money they’re making. The only thing those people are helping is their own ego. The people I respect a lot more are the ones who become successful but remain true to their values.
Good luck with your dating situation. I can’t imagine having to date again. It’s very hard to share poor financial decisions. My husband had a really hard time when I first started thinking about this blog. It really does seem to help to have it out in the open. Maybe we’re not as likely to go back to our old ways. I really appreciate all the tips and love for us rookies. I probably won’t ever know as much about blogging and online ventures as you do, but if I do learn something and have modest success, I’ll try to pass that along to newbies.
I’m glad you are going to take that approach too. I realize I have way more website management and marketing experience than most bloggers. So it’s really no skin off my back to pass that on, especially to blogger friends who have been so supportive.
As for the girl I’m dating, I’m trying to convince her to start a blog herself because I know it would help her a lot. The accountability and support you get is huge.
I think we’ve all been busy
summer is winding up, kids are going back to school, there’s house stuff to be done… etc. etc. I’m happy thing sare going well for you and that you’re not intending to turn into one of ‘those’ bloggers. It’s refreshing, some of ‘those’ bloggers feel so unreachable. Bleh
Tell me about it. Some act like their shit doesn’t stink. I actually had a situation with one of those almighty bloggers the other day. I had done some favors for him in the past, but when I asked for a return favor he made up some condescending excuses. I think I’d rather stick to dealing with the newer bloggers since they’re just such better people to deal with in general.
He he, you’ve given us some good lines of conversation for tonight :p. We’ll escuse the absence from commenting – plus there was our whole issue with the pre published post not making it to Google reader again…
Oh shit, I’ve got to talk about this stuff in person now??
I’m sure we’ll have plenty to talk about tonight, especially once the drinks get flowing lol.
Woah that is a lot of mentions dude – well done! Kudos to you though – you deserve it. I am always willing to help out a friend (you can send me over the post too if you like)
Have a great weekend
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Thanks SS. Your blog has really been progressing well lately. I think your honeymoon must have really refreshed you to take your blog to the next level. I’d love to write a post for your blog sometime. Unfortunately I have to add it to my list of rain-checks though since I’ve been strapped for time lately.
You should have her guest post about her finances! Or would that be weird for her? haha
I think she still needs some warming up to the idea of her writing about it. I’ll convince her eventually though. In the meantime I really want to write about my side of it.
There is a point of diminishing returns for mentioning mentions. There’s 34 this week. I’m sure that list took a while to type up. What happens when it’s 50? 100? You’ll wind up with a list that few people will actually read, and gives very little link juice out. At that point, you really aren’t helping anybody out and making more work for yourself.
I believe that’s why bigger blogs don’t take the time to acknowledge mentions. It’s not ego or attitude; it’s simple pain vs. benefit.
For sure, there will become a point where this just isn’t worthwhile for everyone involved. That’s not the thing I was getting at about established bloggers though. Yes they rarely acknowledge any mentions, but many of them become rather egotistical overall. They just think they are above helping out new bloggers. It really doesn’t take me much work to keep an active text document of all mentions. The work involved isn’t a big deal, especially knowing I’m giving my own links more link juice.
I don’t have a lot of experience with bigger name bloggers, but most of what I have has been positive. J. Money is one of the handful of bloggers I consider a friend. Ramit Sethi has responded to my emails, as has Adam Baker.
The biggest name I’ve ever had any issue with is the one you’ve referenced for some of your interesting search queries. But my opinion is that his attitude has nothing to do with his popularity or success.
Back off Lebron dude. Long live King James! I’m not a Laker fan at all and I hope they crash and burn.
Good luck with the Plutus Awards! I hope you can bring home some hardware! Or they can mail it to you. Do you actually get a trophy or something?
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Well now that they Lakers are stacked Lebron can forget about this dream of creating a dynasty. I just can’t stand that guy, or really anyone with his kind of mentality. I guess Kobe is up there too, but I gotta cheer for the west coast team. Plus they’ve got BC boy Steve Nash now.
I think they do give out a little trophy for the Plutus awards, but I won’t be there. So if by some miracle I did win, I’m not sure what they’d do. I’d pay for postage if they were going to mail it out though. I don’t see myself winning either category though. I have a feeling I know who will win those.
I hope your girlfriend doesn’t mind you writing about wanting to write about her financial situation! I’m sure she’ll talk to you about it if not, though. Enjoy the long weekend!
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I’ve already told her that I’m tempted to write about it and she doesn’t seem to mind. Still I’d want to publish it somewhere that she wouldn’t find it. That way I can be a bit more open about it all. Enjoy your long weekend too!
“So at what stage am I supposed to turn into one of those egotistical bloggers who isn’t willing to help anyone but himself? It seems like a lot of the big bloggers eventually evolve into that.”
Very true.
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I guess that phenomenon isn’t exclusive to blogging. In all kinds of industries when people become successful they lose touch with who they were before. It’s unfortunate, but I guess it says a lot about who they really are inside.
Hopefully someone takes that as a guest post somewhere. Would be an interesting read it sounds like.
Well I’ve got rain checks for guest posting all over the place. So I’ll find a home for it.
I’ll take your guest post, you owe me one haha. But at least your lady friend has you to help take care of her financial situation. My gf is about to apply to med school, so we could be seeing some major debt soon! yikes
btw, your credit card links aren’t working when i hit apply now.
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lol I owe so many people guest posts now. I actually have never even written a guest post for anyone yet. So one of these days I’ll have to crank out some serious writing.
Thanks for the heads up about my credit card page. I’ll check that out right now.
That’s great you and your date are getting to know each other’s financial situations up front rather than finding out much later. I don’t think it’s necessary to go into details at first, but after a few dates it wouldn’t be too intrusive to ask each other broad questions around job security and future financial plans. I probably would feel a little awkward if someone I know in real life was stalking me on my blog and found out for example how much debt I have and all that, so I try to be careful and remain anonymous for the most part. Your blog got mentioned a lot because you deserve it of course, there’s no other explanation.
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How much debt you have? You mean how well you are doing with investments. And yeah it’s more of a 3rd or 4th date topic, but she did bring it up first which I really respect. I don’t mind too much that she’s reading my blog, but it makes me cringe a bit thinking to what I shared in some older posts. She was already quoting about how I was looking for someone younger, more intelligent and more good looking than my ex lol.
Congrats on the plutus award nomination and on the new girl. I really hope it works out for you.
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Thank you Miss T. Things are looking good so far, but we’ll see where things go. The Plutus award finalist thing was nice, but not expecting much beyond that. Just being a finalist is enough for me.
Woo! Always nice to be linked to from Jeremy
Keep us updated on your girl situation, it’s always fun to hear about someone else’ love life haha.
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Will do, provided she doesn’t mind me writing about her a bit. I know a lot of you want to know more details lol.
Great to hear you are out and dating mate. Thanks for the mention and Tweet Tweet for your CC post is done.
Enjoy the long weekend mate.
Mr.CBB
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Thanks Mr CBB. The long weekend was so good that I didn’t get around to finishing comment replies until now.
Honestly, I feel awkward commenting about a new person in your life but since your posting about it, I would say that it says a lot about her that she put it out there in the very beginning. Lucky for her, you’re a financial blogger and can help her control her money through modest living
Wishing you the best!
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Don’t worry, I don’t think she reads much of my blog yet. Definitely not all the comments anyway. I was rather impressed about how open she was about her situation too. I do think I’d be able to help her out a lot, especially with everything I’ve been learning from fellow bloggers.
I try not to share too many of my secrets! But it is weird. If you really like her, I might not post about her finances without her permission…even semi-anonymously in a guestpost. I don’t think it would be a good idea even if you only liked her a little bit. I like Michelle’s idea of asking her to do it.
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No I wouldn’t be doing that without her permission. I’ve already mentioned the possibility to her and she seemed fine with it. I guess I’ll double check just in case though.
If you like that girl you’re seeing, I suggest you avoid skuttling that nascent relationship for the sake of a post. Get her to agree to it and avoid feeling any guilt later on.
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lol no I wouldn’t risk a relationship just for a good post topic. That would be pretty low. I’m just not sure I should share the details with any of my friends and family who check out my blog.
Congrats on finding a chick you’re into, finances aside.
Thanks for the mention.
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Thanks Jen. She is a pretty awesome chick so far which is why I’m willing to overlook her finances.
Good luck with the dating. Hope it all goes well for you. I must say that I hate the Lakers, though. I swear they catch every break in the league. Lamar Odom wants to leave after the botched Cris Paul trade which creates the trade exception they used to sign Steve Nash. Then Orlando essentially gives away Howard for a bunch of bad contracts, and the lakers didn’t even have to take any of Orlando’s bad contracts as part of the deal. Ugh. God must be a Lakers fan.
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If they catch every break they would’ve landed Cris Paul last season too. The trades in the NBA are a bit strange. It seems the league controls where players go much more than in other sports. They must realize just how popular the Lakers are compared to most other teams. I could see why someone would hate the Lakers though. They do have a fair amount of arrogance and have a pretty stacked team.