If we had to separate people into 2 different clans: The Thrifts and the Spendthrifts, I would probably be closer to the latter. Unfortunately, the thing I like most about money is spending it. However, being a husband and father of two beautiful children has helped me be more responsible financially. While I never really wasted my money, I have always enjoyed earning more to spend more in order to indulge myself from time to time.
I want to thank everybody for commenting in our first contest. I must admit that I am really surprise about the number of comments. We actually recievec 146 comments! There was some great feed-back. Your input will help us keeping GLBL one of the best PF blog!
The winner of the iPod touch is….Joel!
The winners of the 2 gifst certificate at Amazon for $25 each are:
Patrick from Cash Money Life and Kim.
I will be sending an email to the winners during the weekend so they can get their prize.
I wrote my very first post yesterday introducing myself and telling my I thoughts on handling Gather Little by Little. However, the biggest part of a blog is its readers and community. For the past months, I have been reading your comments and discovered how great GLBL readers are.
This is why I have decided to run a contest in order to know what you like from Gather Little by Little and also what you would like to read in the upcoming months. Are there any topics that you prefer or you wish to read about?
Here are the prizes:
Wow! I received 231 contest entries: 165 via comments, and 66 via subscriptions with the secret phrase. Thanks to everyone that entered, and a very special thank you for all of the kind comments you left. They met a great deal to me.
Now, jumping right to it…
Winners were selected by placing everyone’s entries into a spreadsheet and using randomizer.org to generate a set of 8 random numbers for the 8 prize winners. Those numbers were matched to the rows in the spreadsheet and resulted in the following winners!
The contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone that entered.
Can you believe Gather Little by Little has been online for 2 years now? Me neither, but it has.
Since July 2nd of 2007, I’ve published 700 articles (this is article #700), had more than 690,000 unique visitors, 1.1 million page views, and more than 3,000 people have subscribed!! Wow. God has really blessed.
Ok, so I’m a day late. Sorry about that everyone. For some reason I had it in my mind that I would announce the winners on Saturday. Symptom of too much going on I guess.
I received 16 comments on the iPhone applcadation giveaway article and with 2 codes being given away, everyone had really good odds of winning! The winners are:
Rebecca who added comment #6 and James who added comment #7
Congratulations to both of you and you have emails from me with the download codes!! Thanks to everyone that entered! Watch for more contests coming very soon!
Last Sunday, I announced a giveaway for a new iPhone and iPod Touch application called Pay off debt. The announcement was buried in the article and given the low number of comments, I’m pretty sure not many people saw it. Blogging is a learning journey just like most everything else and lesson learned: Don’t bury a giveaway in another unrelated article.
Thanks to everyone that entered into the Skinny on credit cards book giveaway. I received 22 entries and visited random.org to pick to the random winning comment. Random.org picked comment #8…and the winner is:
Kim (the first one)!!
In her comment, Kim said:
This sounds like a REALLY great book, and I’d love to win it to give to my teenage nephews. They will be looking at colleges soon, and could use this advice to get off on the right foot financially, especially since I’m sure they will be inundated with credit card offers. And, with their father laid off and no jobs in sight, and me only a temp (with permanent employment a distant, slim, possibility!), and, worst of all, we live in southeast Michigan, every little bit of info and advice helps! Thanks for all the great advice and inspiration! Keep it up!
77 comments were made to my YNAB Pro giveaway post. I visited random.org and the random number it provided was: 14. The 14th commentator was:
Linda Jacobsen who is the winner of the free copy of YNAB Pro! Congratulations Linda!
For those that didn’t win, don’t despair. For the next week, you can purchase a copy of YNAB or YNAB Pro and receive a 10% using the discount code: MAYDAY. This code is only valid through Monday, 5/18. You won’t find discounts to YNAB products often.
We interrupt this regularly scheduled Money saving Monday to provide you with one of he coolest giveaways I’ve done here on Gather Little by Little.
Those of you that have been reading for a while know that I am a huge proponent of budgeting. Personally, I think a budget is a foundational tool for controlling your finances and being financially successful. I started budgeting monthly 2 years ago. I first used a piece of paper, then a simple excel spreadsheet which then developed into a more complex and easier to use excel budget spreadsheet, then I discovered You Need a Budget Pro (you can read my full review over at my You Need a Budget Pro review article). I’ve waffled back and forth between my spreadsheet and YNAB Pro, but both are great tools with their own set of advantages and disadvantages. Regardless, YNAB Pro is a great piece of software that does one thing very well: budgeting.
