Yakezie Challenge / Weekly Roundup

OK Readers, are you scratching your heads and wondering what kind of word has Joe dreamed up now?  If you think the Yakezie challenge is to close your eyes and see if you can spell Yakezie, you are wrong.  While pronouncing Yakezie may also be a challenge, you are still not yet warm.

Sooo….What is it?

I am glad you asked, because it affects you.  The Yakezie challenge is a group of personal finance bloggers working together to help attract more traffic to our blog sites and (this is the part that affects you) increase the quality of the personal finance content on the internet.  How does this work?  Well, I just joined the group and I have much to learn, but members of the challenge will be writing on each other’s sites, doing cooperative writing posts and encouraging each other in a variety of ways.

One member used the analogy that a great way to get better at golf is to play with those who are better than you are.  This should happen with the Yakezie challenge group.

Here are some recent posts from fellow Yakezie members.  Enjoy.

Neal Frankle from Wealth Pilgrim writes a great guest post entitled The Elegance Of Failure for Financial Samurai.  A great quote from this posts is,”The elegance is seeing that your success or failure in an endeavor, doesn’t say anything about you as a person. I have limited skills – we all do. So what?”

Did you ever hear of a funny tax return?  No?  Check Funniest Tax Return Ever? at Sweating the Big Stuff for a very short and very funny post.

Ever hear about those hokey ways of paying off your mortgage early?  There is no magic, but lots of common sense ways explained in Pay Off Your Mortgage Early at Christian Common Sense.

A topic we just don’t discuss enough is marital discussion of finances.  A very transparent post,  Do You and Your Spouse Argue Over Finances is a good read at Ending the Rat Race.

If you are like me, you have heard more than you ever want to hear about the Health Care Bill, but do you really know how it will affect you?  I didn’t until reading So, Have You Heard About the Healthcare Bill? posted at The Amateur Financier.  This is a recommended read!

Credit card debt?  Need some great tips on getting rid of it?  Read 5 Tips to Pay Off Credit Card Debt by Jason at Redeeming Riches.

Should you ALWAYS get the 15 year mortgage instead of the 30year?  Joe Taxpayer gives us pause for thought in A Thought on 15 vs 30 year Mortgages

I admit that I never even thought buying a rental car, but the post Would You Buy a Rental Car at Fiscal Fizzle has me thinking.  Good pros and cons in this discussion.  Make sure you read the comments.

Miranda Marquit had an excellent guest post at Good Financial Cents where she talked about a bankruptcy file could effect your credit score.

Junior Boomer from Consumer Boomer discusses What Are Your Options With Your 401k if You Lose Your Job?

I have participated in the following Carnivals this week:

Carnival of Financial Planning hosted by Dividend Tree

Baby Boomers Blog Carnival hosted by Baby Boomers US

Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by Amateur Asset Allocator

Carnival of Road to Financial Independence hosted by One Family’s Blog

I was also mentioned in Fiscal Geek’s Friday Roundup.

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