Exciting things are happening here at Retired by 40! – and I’m so excited that you’ve chosen to be a part of them!

Earlier, I announced the theme for the year: Life Uncomplicated.

{Read About 2016’s Theme: Life Uncomplicated}

Frugal living is my passion, but so is making my home beautiful, fashion, traveling, parenting, cooking, inspiration and even organizing, and so I’ve changed the look and feel here to bring in even more content that I think you’re going to LOVE!

I am so excited to share even more of my life with you!

As part of these changes, I decided to introduce a monthly giveaway that consists of Inspirational T-shirts from my store, books that have helped me manage my finances, and even some home decor items designed by yours truly!

@Retiredby40 is giving away monthly prizes – enter now!

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I hope that everything that you see here will inspire you to create the uncomplicated life that you want – and that these monthly giveaways will inspire you even further.

January’s Giveaway(s)

So, without further ado, let me introduce you to January’s giveaways:

Craving a simple resource that offers a solution to the chaos of personal finances? The thoughtfully-designed, full-color pages of the Marriage & Money Book + Workbook will help you reclaim control over your finances, focusing you on your goals and the financial steps you’ll need to take to get there. From building a budget that works for you to implementing weekly 5-minute budget check-ins, allowing your budget to fluctuate with change, setting up a bill pay calendar, and tracking expenses, Marriage & Money is the sanity-saver you’ve been waiting for.

Rewritten, revised, and expanded, Marriage & Money is the best way I’ve found to set and stick to a budget!

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The Introduction will get you started on the concept of building a budget in 5 easy steps, and then help you to develop a communication strategy with your spouse & family so that your budget can be successful!

Included in this book is the 2016 Goal Planning Workbook so that your passions and dreams for 2016 can align with your the budget you set up for the year!

Finally, Marriage & Money contains 12 months of budget templates, 12 months of bill pay schedules, a place to keep important passwords and reminders + 52 budget meeting forms that can be filled out as your an your family complete weekly budget meetings and hold yourself accountable to your budget.

No matter how or when you budget, Marriage & Money will provide positive help & inspiration for your journey to the life you want!

Don’t want to wait? You can buy it here.

For January Only: When You Purchase Marriage & Money, you’ll receive the goals workbook (A $12.50 Value) Free!

Goals are so important – and I truly believe that everyone should take time to set them, which is why I’m giving you access to a really cool goal-planning workbook, designed and written by yours truly, as I’ve worked through my own goals the past couple of years. I’ve drawn inspiration from other bloggers’ pieces and thoughts, as well as books I’ve read, and of course my own ideas to create the most comprehensive goal planning workbook!

The 14 page workbooks contains page for brainstorming your passions and dreams for the coming year, a place to think about what worked and didn’t work in 2015, and a planning section to set your goals and dreams in motion – the easiest, most efficient way possible!

You can get a free printable copy of the goals workbook by to the Retired by 40! newsletter, or if you want a hard copy and don’t want to wait, you can buy the workbook here.

Need a little inspiration for busy days ahead?

Then you NEED this Just Breathe T-shirt!

A gentle reminder this too shall pass, and that those kiddos grow up all too soon!

Don’t wait for the winners announcement? Buy it here

How To Win

I have even more exciting new for you. Rather than giving everyone who subscribes a single entry – each month, you will have 90+ opportunities to win the monthly prizes!

Here’s how you can win:

Subscribe to the newsletter: you’ll automatically get one entry into the giveaways each month, as long as you stay subscribed.
Tweet a post: for each post you tweet in January
Share via Facebook: for each post you share on Facebook, you’ll receive on entry to that month’s drawings.
Pin it: for each post you pin to your Pinterest page, you’ll receive an additional entry!

This means that if you shared every post during the month of January to Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter, and subscribed to the newsletter, you will receive 94 entries into the drawings!

How To Enter Links Into Rafflecopter

Rafflecopter has some great integrations, But i’m giving you entries for more social shares than Rafflecopter has built in, so when you share a post, you’ll have to manually enter the link in order to receive a drawing entry.

Here’s how to do it:

To enter the URL from a Tweet simply click on the time of the tweet where the arrow is pointing.

That will display the individual tweet. Simply copy the www. address at the top of the page, and paste it into the Rafflecopter.

The same goes for Facebook. Just click the time next to the post, as shown below:

This will bring up the individual post, and you can copy the www. address at the top of the page, just like with a tweet.

For Pinterest, the proccess is also very simple. Click on the individual pin that you shared. This will bring the image up larger on your screen and then you can copy the www. address that comes up at the top of your browser.

See how easy that is?

If you have any questions about this, reach out to me at retiredby40blog (at) gmail (dot) com and I would be glad to help you with your entries!