Hi <<First Name>>! Mr. BFS and I ran away to a beach house with friends last weekend and I realized something huge. Needing a vacation doesn't really mean that we need to spend a ton of money to have a good time. It really means that we just need a break from our normal responsibilities. The beach house was great, but the "vacation" part was simply not needing to check email or feed the dogs. It was just doing what we felt like doing as it popped up. Honestly, I think our next vacation could even be at home as long as we could escape our responsibilities and have our friends over.
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charlotte asked, "How do you choose staff writers for your other blogs?"
In the beginning, we hired blogging buddies that we knew were looking for staff writing gigs. Then a really awesome lady, Libby Balke, emailed me when she saw a post about me on Get Rich Slowly. She ended up being exactly what everyone wants in a staff writer - dependable, self motivated, humorous, and affordable. But now she found a full time job (congrats Libby!) and I had to start looking again. I've reached out to a long-time commenter and guest poster at BFS and a blogging buddy that always makes me smile. We'll see how it works out. I also just hired a fellow blogger, Amanda at Frugal Confessions, to be a bimonthly staff writer on BFS since she enjoys info posts with lots of research and I do not...I figured you all deserve some real meaty posts once in a while, lol. :-)
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Crystal
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