What a long and stressful week! Both my wife and I had some pretty hectic schedules these past few days, but it’s all good. This week was also very special because we celebrated our son’s birthday! He’s a great present “getter” because he opens each present as if it’s the best present he’s ever received. Unfortunately I think the week is going to end with Mrs. MMD coming down with a cold.
I’m glad to announce we finally got the estimate back on our house and will be closing on our HARP Refinance soon! We also finished installing our hardwood floors. Both of these will be expanded upon in upcoming posts next week.
Carnivals:
MyMoneyDesign was featured in the following personal finance carnivals this week:
• Carnival Of Financial Camaraderie #22
• Carnival of Retirement, 8th Edition – How We Want To Retire
• Totally Money Blog Carnival – Puppies! And Some Articles About Money …
• Self Directed Investing For Retirement Carnival – Extended Market Edition
• Best Personal Financial Planning and Personal Investment Articles this Week from Personal Finance Blogs Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #226 – March 2, 2012
• Managing Your Personal Finances – Blog Carnival #1
In addition, my articles were also generously mentioned in the following other blogs:
• Life and My Finances – Goals Update and Weekly Round-Up #8
• Creating a Passive Income – Goals Update and Weekly Round-Up #9
• Retire Happy Blog – Best of Blogs – goodbye February
Thanks to everyone who hosted these outstanding collections of articles!
Stats:
Here are my stats for the week:
• Alexa Ranking: 328,365 (as of 3/03/12). We’re down about 70,000 spots from last week. Strategies for the week included a lot of visiting other blogs, commenting on some great articles, and submitting to a ton of carnivals.
• Google PageRank: 1 / 10
Thank you to all my new and returning visitors who have helped me achieve these ranks. I appreciate your support and hope you continue to enjoy my site!
Posts This Week:
1) Is 2 Percent the New Safe Retirement Withdrawal Rate?
2) A Better Way to See If You’ll Run Out of Money During Retirement
3) What Exercise Has Taught Me About Money
Photo Credit: MMD
Derek says
Thanks for including me in our round-up! I have quite a few goals, and really intend to hit them all! 🙂
Hunter - Financially Consumed says
Congratulations on the birthday of your son. It’s important to celebrate these important milestones. We had a stressful week too, and getting ready to begin another 🙂
MMD says
Amen to that! The outlook for this week is looking just as busy as ever!
Modest Money says
Happy belated birthday to your son! Looks like you’ve been getting some good exposure for your blog. For these regular weekly posts you might want to consider making each title somehow unique. Search engines prefer a site to not have duplicate titles. You could simply include the date at the end or a brief secondary title.
MMD says
Thanks for the birthday wish and thanks for the tip! I had a hunch that naming these posts the same thing would probably backfire on me somehow. Looks like I’ll need to be just a little more creative.