Welcome to this Week’s Edition of Simple Sunday Round.

On August 16th, 2010, I have joined the Yakezie Network Challenge. At that time my Alexa ranking was 761,131. My goal was to reach Alexa rating of 200,000 with in 6 months of taking the challenge. Well thanks to all those other Yakezie members you have helped as of today my Alexa rating is 194,176. I have reached my goal in less than 6 months. Not only has joining Yakezie the best network of personal finance sites helped with my Alexa rating, I have also meet other personal finance bloggers to network with. Thanks to all of those who have helped me reach this point. On to the next challenge of reaching Alexa 100,000 and building more relationships.

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Have you had the money talk with your kids? I know my parents provided me with a great financial foundation. I believe teaching your children the fundamentals of personal finances can go a long way in helping you simplify your personal finances as well as your child’s personal finances in the future. Here are some personal finance post from this week that can help you teach your child about personal finance and money.

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If you are looking to simplify your personal finances a good way to help you simplify them would be to build a financial fortress. Webster dictionary defines a

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Welcome to this week’s Pink Edition of Simple Sunday Personal Finance Roundups. Each week I like to pull some of the best personal finance roundups and links post together. It enables you to find the best personal finance post for the past week in one place.

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Do you are your spouse manage all of your financial matters? If so what happens to your personal finances if the other is hospitalized or unexpectedly passes away? Would the non-CFO of the house know what to do to manage the family finances? In my post Financially Prepare your Spouse in order to Simplify I explain what the non-spouse needs to know in order to manage the family finances. Now its time to take it a step further. In order to make it even easier for the non-CFO spouse, you must create a file to explain what needs to be done to manage the family finances. I would label this file Emergency Financial File. This file should be filed with all of your other financial documents or in a location your spouse has access to and can quickly put their hands on it when needed. I would even purchase a red folder so it stands out from all of your other files.

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Welcome to this week’s Columbus Edition of Simple Sunday Personal Finance Roundups. Each week I like to pull some of the best personal finance roundups and links post together. It enables you to find the best personal finance post from the last week in one place.

As Columbus discovered America check out this week’s personal finance roundups and you may discover a personal finance post or article to help you simplify your personal finances.

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In order to simplify your personal finances, you must identify your financial ugly ducklings and turn them into financial swans.  What I mean by this is if you want to simplify your financial life so you can manage your finances better you must identify your bad financial habits which I refer to as your ugly ducklings and take action to turn this bad financial habits into a positive financial situation or what I refer to as financial swan.

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Welcome to this week’s Simple Sunday Financial Roundup.

A new personal finance web site was launched this week by Tom from Canadian Finance Blog called Money Index. It’s a great site which shows you the five most recent posts from several personal finance sites. This new site enables you to go to one location to find the most recent personal finance articles and post. The site even breaks down the sites into various categories. You can see my site under personal finance category.

In this week’s Simple Sunday Financial Roundup, I have featured many of the bloggers roundups who are part of the Money Index. If you are looking to simplify your personal finance, the money index has a lot to offer so check out the new site. Read the rest of this entry »

I have to admit I am an iPhone junkie. I enjoying finding new apps to try out. There are many financial and money management apps that can help you simplify your personal finances. This week I wanted to suggest some of the best financial apps available. If you are an iPhone or iPad user, try them out and see which ones can help you simplify your finances. Better yet many of these apps are free or at least have a free version for you to try out.

Check them out and let me know which apps have helped you simplify your finances:

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