Earlier this week I noticed a tremendous problem: Frugalwoods is a finalist for a Plutus Award! Throughout the event you merely requested the query “what the heck is a Plutus Award” efficiently then my mates, you’re in luck! Here’s a actuality you in all probability might be taught immediately: Plutus Awards “acknowledge the right of the non-public finance blogosphere” and are awarded yearly to the very best personal finance blogs at a component often called FinCon.
You would be astounded to be taught that FinCon is NOT, in reality, a conference for pickpocketing dolphins, which was naturally my first assumption. It’s actually “a peer convention for the monetary media neighborhood” (2nd actuality of the day). So, practically a bunch of individuals like me (although probs not as bizarre) congregating, sipping scotch, and discussing the inside leather-based shade on their 50′ yachts (which I nonetheless don’t non-public, don’t care to, and under no circumstances will, btw).
We’re blown away and deeply honored to be finalists! The one draw again? We had been nominated for Most Humorous Private Finance Weblog. Of us, I don’t know what gave you the impression that it is a humorous weblog. This usually is a financially astute, rigorously analyzed, altogether excessive weblog. Frugalwoods would under no circumstances write such tawdry frugal comedy as Good Trash Finds, Breakfast: The Hidden Destroyer, Journey Low value by Being a Thanksgiving Weirdo, or the honored Frugal Hound Sniffs column.
We goal to ship our content material materials supplies all through the driest, most simple methodology doable. I’d under no circumstances make you wade by the use of 1,000,000 images I’d taken of my garments unfold out on my flooring to be able to be taught why I’m banned from thrift retailers for the rest of 2014. And I’d actually under no circumstances launch a set completely devoted to interviewing fully completely different folks’s pets, written by my canine. Who DOES that?!
However in all honesty, I’m taking a break from spamming the world with greyhound images posting actually helpful and clever content material materials supplies to say THANK YOU. Actually and truly, Mr. Frugalwoods and I are nothing lower than shocked to be finalists. We’re honored, thrilled, shocked (as quickly as additional, people are actually discovering out this problem?!), and simply downright giddy as a greyhound in a bathe of squirrels.
We’re grateful to everybody who voted for us, supported, and impressed us alongside this little weblog journey. And, to frost our frugal cake, on the equal day that the Plutus Award finalists had been launched, my Behind The Scenes of a Comfortable Frugal Marriage (trace: ours!) was featured on the venerable Rockstar Finance! With {{a photograph}} of us sans heads! I felt like I’d eaten a whole bag of sweet corn, which, let’s be sincere correct proper right here, I have carried out, so I discuss from a spot of authority.
Thanks.
Alas, the one grumble I can muster this week amidst such unfettered glee is the unhappy indisputable fact that the Frugalwoods fam won’t be attending FinCon this yr. I’m certain it’ll be fin-tastic, stuffed with dolphins trying to con folks out of their wallets all my new internet-y mates. I’d get to do ridiculous factors particularly particular person with you (versus merely on correct proper right here and thru my woefully inept utilization of twitter and Pinterest). Sorry not sorry* to all of my followers regarding the deluge of Frugal Hound images… and the truth that I persistently don’t use the # image appropriately.
Mr. Frugalwoods and I do oh so hope to attend subsequent yr’s FinCon (at which I take into accounts there usually is a case take a look at session that options me titled: “What NOT To Do collectively collectively along with your Weblog on Social Media”). Moreover, I’m devoting the yr to creating ready (and testing) a plan for smuggling Frugal Hound into the convention. Concepts welcome. When submitting concepts, evidently she:
- Weighs 60 lbs
- Is a tall greyhound
- Wouldn’t slot in a duffle bag (that everybody is aware of of, have probably not tried)
- Is awkward
- Makes quite a few uncommon grunting/burping noises
- Shouldn’t be what we might title clever
*I used to be educated by my hip, 17-yr-old sister-in-law (who I really like very masses), that “sorry not sorry” is sort of a component the children say.
