The final round of the Personal Finance March Madness competition at Free Money Finance started on Saturday, and my Snowflaking: A Primer post made it to the finals!  thanks for all the votes and if you would like to go vote in the comments of the competition post for “Snowflaking” I would appreciate it!  The competition is very very close and every vote counts!

What I have loved about this round is all the people who in the comments have mentioned how snowflaking has personally helped them and their financial goals.  I love that my unbridled enthusiasm for the snowflaking concept has infected so many people.  Win or lose, I can’t beat that feeling.

The proceeds of the contest go to charity and I am playing for The Make A Wish Foundation, so if my post wins $500 goes to them.  Even if it doesn’t win, second place is $250 so not too bad!

Also, on another topic, I’ve sent out a lot of the Snowflake Spotlight interviews by request but I haven’t gotten very many back, so I didn’t run an interview this past week.  If you would like to be interviewed, drop me a line and I will send you the questions.  It’s your chance to publicize your blog and your snowflaking methods!

Thanks for being a part of the ever-growing snowflaking movement!

Every Wednesday will feature a snowflaking tip of the week found on one of the Snowflake Revolution member blogs. This may be a place to find snowflakes, a method to use snowflaking, or anything else I find in our vast and knowledgeable membership. If you’d like a chance to be included, send links to your best snowflaking posts to me through the join page contact form.

This week’s tip comes from Bible Money Matters, who in a post explaining the debt snowball, goes into snowflaking in detail as well as mentioning a few ways to earn snowflakes.  One I particularly liked was the selling of things on eBay.  I have done this in the past, as well as used Craigslist, and had very positive results.

What do you have that you don’t want or need?  Get rid of it, and use the proceeds to reach your financial goals!  And you’ll declutter at the same time, bonus!