Friday Giveaway Roundup – 127 Giveaways

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Happy Friday everyone!

I hope you had a great week. We had quite an interesting weekend last weekend…I’ll let you read in the random updates section. First, here are our posts from this week:

• I kicked off the week with 4 Things I would be more interested in if I was Wealthy. It was interesting to hear what other people would be more interested in if they were wealthy. My favorite part of this post was choosing what pics to use (hint: Bugatti!).

• Next I went with a career-related post, Qualities Every Employer is Looking for in an Employee. I am intrigued by careers, small business, and wealth accumulation in general. Working in corporate America I am much more exposed to the employee-side of things, so this post was based off of some of my observations (as well as things others have told me over the years).

• Our staff writer, Cat, wrote about How To Deal With People Who Flash Their Money. I think she has great tips on how to deal with these people, but even worse in my opinion is dealing with people who are subtle about their money “brags.” Perhaps a topic for another post?

• Stressed out but on a budget? My Thursday post, 5 Ways to Relieve Stress on a Budget, gives ideas of ways to relieve stress in free or nearly-free ways.

Random updates:

• We got our plumbing bills paid for by the city! We got the check in the mail on Friday and deposited it the same day. If you don’t know about our plumbing issues, the moral of the story is ALWAYS check Angie’s List before hiring anyone. Signing up for Angie’s List is cheap and will be the best investment you ever make as a homeowner. In the end it literally saved us $7,000 and even resulted in us being compensated by the city for all our plumbing bills. Also had someone email me who has a similar sewer issue – I was happy to email him back because I know what it’s like to be in their spot.

• Ironically the same day we got our check in the mail from the city we had one of the worst storms in Minnesota that I can remember. It resulted in the storm drains not being able to handle all the water and…our storm drain essentially failed because it couldn’t drain into the main drain fast enough. The result? Water got into both our basement and our neighbor’s basement. Thankfully we were home and have a sump pump (and didn’t lose electricity!) so we were able to clean it up quick once the water started to actually drain outside. I can’t imagine the damage that could have been done if we were out of town and had a finished basement. I’ve heard countless stories the past week about people who have had this happen (it actually happened to my parents when I was younger…).

  I talked to both our insurance agent so I could understand our coverage better as well as the city engineer who is checking the system to see where upgrades may be needed or what was causing some of the failures. It’s great to know we have a proactive person at public works leading the project.

• Our renter is moving out end of July, which would be bad news due to potential lost income except for the fact that we found a new renter and the lease is signed! We are excited about this, as well as the fact that we negotiated a two-week period before they move in so that we can do some work. Additionally I’m excited to work with our friend’s Dad, who is a contractor, on a list of “to dos” that I definitely would not be able to conquer myself. I also have a ton of projects for outside (retaining wall, fence, garden…) that I hope to tackle before the end of the Summer. It’s been crazy owning a house but definitely a lot of fun.

This weekend I’m heading up north, but only for one day and one night. Every Summer my parents rent a cabin the week of the fourth, but it just so happens to coincide with quarter close for my company. Because of this I just can’t take off work. I will also be going to the grad party of one of the ushers from my wedding (yes, high school graduation!). When I was in college I led a small group at church he was one of the guys in it (wow…six years ago. Time flies.), and we just love his family. Can’t wait to see them all.

I am always interested to hear about what your plans are this weekend?

On to the giveaways!

First, enter my current giveaway:

No Giveaways :( But the good news is: We have a big giveaway launching on Monday – a CASH giveaway sponsored by a bunch of bloggers!

Next check out the 127 giveaways that are ending from 6/28 to 7/4. Good luck!

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Good luck on all the giveaways and I hope you all have a great weekend!
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