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Top 100 Finance Blogs to Follow in 2013

March 9, 2013

The folks at Coupon Audit have put together an infographic of the Top 100 finance blogs to follow in 2013. And look who showed up at #47: Thanks to Coupon Audit for including me. I see a lot of my blogging friends on this list, along with a bunch of new blogs to check out. [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 22, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you have a wonderful holiday and I want you to know that I am thankful that you take the time to read this blog. Julie If you enjoyed this post and would like more, enter your email address in the box below and future posts from The Family CEO will [...]

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Blog Survey Results and The Future of the Blog

September 17, 2012
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Thanks to all of you who answered the one question survey I posted a couple of weeks ago. Since most of my blog posts fall into one of two categories — family finance and home/lifestyle — I wanted to see if it made sense to split those topics into two different blogs. That was not something I [...]

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One Question Survey

September 3, 2012

Happy September and thank you very much for being a Family CEO reader. If you would take a moment to answer this one question survey, it would help me tremendously in determining how future topics on the blog are organized. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool. If you’re reading [...]

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A Year Ago on The Family CEO

August 30, 2012

Back when I kept paper calendars, I liked to save them. They didn’t take up a lot of room, and it was always fun and interesting to look back and see what we were doing a year ago. Or two. Or five. I liked the “month at a glance” calendars. I started with those little, [...]

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A New Look

June 29, 2012
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The Family CEO has a new look! Once again, the wonderful Sharon Hujik listened to me and created just what I wanted: a simpler, cleaner design with fresh colors. (If you’re reading this in an email or in a blog reader, be sure to click over and check it out!) Simple Ideas for Everyday Living [...]

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I’m in Love With…Pinterest

February 14, 2012

Happy Valentine’s Day! I thought this was the appropriate day to blog about a place that I’ve grown to love: Pinterest. Have you heard of Pinterest? It’s an online pinboard where you can keep track of the nifty things you find online and organize them into boards. (I’m pretty sure I love the organizing part [...]

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A Mastermind’s List of the Top Ten Posts of 2011

January 4, 2012

Several years ago my boss at the company where I was working had us take a personality test. The company is a small one and all of its employees are all women, so we had a lot of fun with the results. Each of our personality types had a name, like Peacemaker, Innovator, or Idealist. [...]

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Gratitude

November 24, 2011

“You say grace before meals.  All right.  But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”  – G.K. Chesterton [...]

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The Family CEO Now at U.S. News & World Report

August 31, 2011

I’m excited to announce that my daughter, Lindsey, and I are co-authoring a blog on the U.S. News & World Report site. The blog — Twice the College Advice — can be found in the Education section of the site. We’re approaching the college experience from two different perspectives: parent and student. If you have [...]

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