You love books.  And isn’t it just perfect that they are readily available anywhere now more than ever? I myself was a voracious reader when I was a kid.  Moving from mom’s Mills & Boon to the thicker, more seductive books, all hand-me-downs from I don’t know where (or did mom buy…?).  I was hooked. [...]

I could not fit into my pants. And I know the culprit.

It is called “The Most Sinful Chocolate Cake”. And when Connie wrote about it, I knew I had to try to make it for one of my “frugal nights”.

A little backtrack. I started having “frugal nights” because I was getting frustrated with the restaurant scene where I was paying so much for food. Especially dessert.

It’s crazy.

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After 99 posts, 453 comments (54 of which are spam which I have not deleted nor approved) and 699 tags, I come to this, my 100th post.

To think that YouWantToBeRich started as just a requirement to get a certificate in MavenSecrets, a professional blogging and internet marketing education seminar that I attended in 2009.

I did not know that it would change my life and give it colors that I never knew existed, or give me opportunities for self-expression and advocacy in a niche that I was just getting really interested in at that time.

At first, I thought I would go into food and travel because like Anton’s OurAwesomePlanet, it was my passion. I even asked hubby to buy me a camera to herald my entry into the blogosphere via a food and travel blog.

But I am glad I went down the path of learning about money and people and their money idiosyncracies (especially my own and my family’s). It felt good to chronicle this journey and to look back and learn from it again.

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