Blogging

As part of my deep thinking and rejuvenating on the cruise I've made a decision about the blog. Lately its been feeling forced and despite Changing my post schedule my post have still been short and not the quality that I really want to share so I've yet again changed my mind. I'm going to go back to the reason I've


I'm going to blog just for my personal enjoyment and I'm only going to blog when I have the time and when I have something to share. So who knows when my next post will be, maybe some time this week maybe sometime next month, but I can assure you that This Future Millionaire will still be on track financaily and she still wants to share plenty with readers so keep checking back every so often or subscribe to my reader so that you can be sure to find when my next post pops up.

Until then...Happy Personal Finance Thought!

Changing Post Schedule

I just got back from am amazing get away. Mr. Be-Mine and I went Hiking and celebrated his Birthday.

It was wonderful to get away from the real world, away from my job problems, away from tvs, computes, phones etc and just chill. I can't remember the last time I was able to truly enjoy a sunrise. Normally sunrises occur when I'm standing in the building trying to get pre-task plans complete with the work crews so we can start our day and normally the sunrise goes completely unnoticed other than to note that the site lighting at the job site can be turned off.

While I was up in the Mountains, I realized that lately I've been stretching myself way too thin lately. The primary reason is because of the demands and expectations of my new project. In the construction industry, I've always anticipated/expected to work 10 hours a day, 12 hours at busier times or when we've behind schedule but since joining this new project I've been regularly working 14+ hours a day on top of running every morning, posting here, volunteering at the food bank (although not as much as I'd like to lately), and trying to do the day to day activities of life all while trying to get sufficent sleep to accomplish all of this activities. To be honest its just not working and some things are slipping through the cracks, so I realized things have to give.

One of them is posting 6 days a week on this blog. Unfortunately I've not even been able to even keep up with this, and each day I go with out a post I feel incredibly guilty so to avoid the guilt I'm just going to make the decision that I'm only going to post 3-4 times a week.

By reducing the number of times I plan to post it will do two things. 1 - It will remove my guilt for when I don't post. 2 - It will allow me more time to complete posts and really put together quality posts that I was able to do when I was working on the project in Valdosta.

I hope you all will still check in regularly to follow Saving Savy by a Future Millionaire as I really appreciate all of your feed back and will need it even more now I as go with this new challenge in life.

PFBloggers Network

Yesterday I joined the PFBloggers Network and Aggregator, which is a network of Bloggers comprised of mostly newer blogs. From my perspective, its going to be a "support group" of sorts for those of us just starting in the world of blogger. For readers its a great way to explore newer less established blogs that are offering great new perspectives plus the PFBloggers Aggregator offers a place to check out recent posts and highlights from all the bloggers.

Prior to joining I've explored the other bloggers' sites and am most imprssed with what I've read and feel very comfortable in recommending their sites to you all . I hope you all will enjoy these new blogs as much as I do.

The PFBloggers Network consists of the following:

In Debt Blogger
Living Almost Large
Master Your Card
No Debt Plan
Our Fourpence Worth
Pinching Copper
Saving Savy by a Future Millionaire
The Social Marginal
Wide Open Wallet

For you use, I've added a new feature to the blog on the left hand side with links to all of the BFBloggers's sites.

Happy reading!

New Blog Feature - Feed Burner

A few very observant readers, may have noticed that a new feature to this blog has been added today and that's Feed Burner which will allow you to track post updates to Savings Savy by a Future Millionaire via email. For the time being I've added this feature at the end of my posts. If only blogger would allow a little more freedom in templates, I'd love to have a right hand column, but for now I can't complain since blogger is free and it works.

Special thanks goes out to Brian for not only suggesting that I add this feature but also for providing the tools necessary to create this feature. Couldn't have asked for anything else!

The reason I started this blog is because I really enjoy the comments and feedback from reads to the bloggers of sites I follow and wanted to have that same type of interaction. Since life is a two way street, if you're going to read and give feedback, I want to provide you the information and tools you want. So if ever there's a feature on this blog you want or a financial topic you want to hear about, drop me an email or leave a comment and I'd be happy to try to provide this for you.

New Blog Feature

Just added a new feature to the blog on the left hand side -- the capability to search this site and the web for financial topics (and others topics too).

Not sure about the best location so for now I've put it under post labels. If you have a better suggestion let me know.

Why "Savy"

So I was getting ready to add my post for the day when I realized I missed spelled my blog name and corresponding URL. I'm thinking oh great...this whole new idea of blogging is really going well...can't even get the correct URL. (said with only a touch of sarcasm in my voice)

I wish I had some clear come back as to my real motivations for calling it Saving "Savy" like it was intentional to make my blog specific, especially since I just realize someone else has a blog Saving "Savvy" or that I did it on purpose because I was saving that extra "v". Really it just further goes to prove that I'm an engineer and not an English major, but I try. So as you read through my blog please consider this is one *smart* chica, but no English major. :)

PS If you do know your grammar and spelling better than I do please feel free to correct any errors you see.

Beginning of a New Era - the Start of Saving Savy

Today is a new day. Today's the day I start my financial blog.

I'm really excited about it. Over the past several months I've become a devout financial blog reader and was inspired by some of my favorites to start tracking my financial goals via a blog. Check out my favorites on the left hand side of the page.

I hope you enjoy my blog. One of the biggest reason's I started it was because I really enjoyed the comments and feedback from reads to the bloggers of sites I follow and wanted to have that same type of interaction, so with that said, please make my day and leave me comments.