Oct 20th, 2012 by Jennifer Lynn
FINALLY I have an opportunity to loll about with a cup of tea while I update my finances and catch up on some writing tasks. It took three hours to wrestle Lexi down for a decent nap today and when she insists on skipping sleep like this, she mutates into this drunk-y and crazed savage critter who bumbles into furniture and walls. WHY WILL THIS CHILD NOT SLEEP??!
Sigh. Onward to other weekend jibber jabber:
“My Financial Challenge Update”
As a stay-at-home mommy without a reliable income stream, I made a financial challenge at the start of summer to raise $1,000, somehow. This is how things currently stand:
(All income was passively made from previous writing projects & sponsors.)
June – $80.00
July – $57.71
August – $425.80
September – $0 
October – $262.50 (yaaaay!)
TOTAL: $826.01
Starting in November I’ve been called to participate in a two-week focus group on lip balm (heh), which will compensate around $150. Hecka’ cool!
Broke-Ass Mommy Site Stats
Subscribers –
July 3rd:
2 subscribers (Can I send you something to express my gratitude? A jelly bean, perhaps?)
July 18th:
11 subscribers
August 8th:
18 subscribers
September 5th:
31 subscribers
October 12th:
51 subscribers
October 20th:
73 broke-ass subscribers, as of this morning. (woo-hoo!)
Alexa Rankings –
July 10th: 3,507,434
July 17th: 1,725,804
July 30th: 1,236,943
August 6th: 906,877
August 8th: 826, 155
September 5th: 369, 754
September 16th: 312,130
October 12th: 261,838
(current) October 20th: 237,847
Page Rank: 2
Here are some personal finance reads I enjoyed for your weekend perusing pleasure.
So Over This – Why I Stopped Pushing My Son to Go to College.
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff – Build A Home Series: Finally Closed (and pics!)
The Financial Blogger – Why Everybody Gets In Line to Kick Me in the Nuts???
Mo’ Money Mo’ Houses – How the Recession Has Motivated Me to Kick Ass at Life.
Finance Fox – Money Mistakes in Relationships.
Modest Money – Why I Would Never Lease A Car.
Edward Antrobus – My Money Pet Peeve: Skipping Frugality Because Earning More Is ‘Better’. (Congratulations on having your article mentioned in MSN Money, Edward!)
Femme Frugality – Frugal Tip: Student Deals and Discounts.
Club Thrifty – What I Want My Kids to Know About Money.
Pelican On Money – Get Rid of Credit Card Debt Once and for All.
Shared tweets for Broke-Ass Mommy this week. You guys are awesome!
Modest Money | @ModestMoney (Twitter)
When Life Gives You Lemons…Add Vodka | @add_vodka (Twitter)
Frugal Rules | @FrugalRules (Twitter)
Reach Financial Independence | @RFIndependence(Twitter)
Broke-Ass Mommy featured around the web:
Yakezie Carnival at CultOfMoney
Carn. of Financial Camaraderie at Master the Art of Saving
Wealth Artisan’s FinCarn at Wealth Artisan
Y and T’s Weekend Ramblings at Young and Thrifty
Carnival of MoneyPros at Making Sense of Cents
Remember my blurry spider from last time? Well, here he is again in all his glory BECAUSE HE IS SO BAD ASS. I knew I had a better pic burrowed somewhere, and I finally extracted it from one of our phones that got shoved into some random corner of the apartment after our camping trip, until it was re-discovered last night meshed in a pile with M.’s other gadgety stuff.
Presenting Itsy Bitsy, the Spider:
Rawr! Have a bad ass weekend, y’all.
hugs, me.
=^..^=
hey ! thx for the mention!
here's a trick for your kid: work at night so she sleeps already
. this is the only trick I've found with three kids in the house anyway! lol!
enjoy the weekend!
Jennifer, I'm glad you liked my post and mentioned it here! Do you do freelance writing? How do you typically find your gigs?
Congrats on the income.
Thanks for the mention and for the congrats on the MSN article.
Cool picture!!! Thanks for the mention.
great job on the financial challenge! subscribers and Alexa look good too
Thank you so much for the mention!!!!
I'm such an arachnophobe, I just can't handle spiders. That one in particular looks super creepy!
Loving the photo of the spider and you are killing the Alexa rankings keep up the good work. Looks like you are getting around on the web. Nice bounce back in October from not making anything in September. Did you take a break or just nothing came your way that month?
Awesome job on the stats & income! I love the description of your daughter…the fun little ones can be at times.
Nice work on bringing in the passive income! Keep your focus.
@The Financial Blogger, LOL, duly noted!
@Veronica, thank you for stopping by. Typically I find clients through referrals from friends and other bloggers.
@Edward, thanks so much! Can not wait to see how your new success translates on your site.
@Crystal, Itsy Bitsy appreciates the compliment and hopes you are enjoying the new digs. His cousins may pop over to check on things.
@Pauline, thanks, love!
@Holly, thank you for stopping by.
@Glen, yeah, Itsy Bitsy is rad but majorly creepy. I am not much of a spider girl myself. Thank goodness for cats.
@Thomas, thanks for the encouragement. September was a dry month with little income opportunity.
@John S., little ones are a riot and it really is wonderful when others can relate.
@My Money Design, thank you for the encouragement, mucho appreciated.
Thanks for answering my question. I guess I better work on my writing to earn some referrals
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