Hope you all had an awesome Thanksgiving Day last week. It was my first time cooking a turkey and thankfully it turned out delicious! I know some of you were worried. haha! I went with the turkey bag in the oven strategy and it was much easier than I thought it would be. I bought a pre-brined turkey and after some other prep placed it in the oven and played some Call of Duty with my brother. Four hours later came out this juicy, golden 20lb turkey. We ate half of it and had turkey sandwiches for days after. I think on Friday I actually had leftovers all 3 meals. How about you all?
I had a bit of a revelation for round-up articles. From now on the first ones I’m going to grab are from those who have commented on FM. We’ll still include other interesting articles but the first ones will be from commentluv. This way we can reward you all and also hopefully encourage others to start commenting.
Three Tips for Christmas Decorating on a Budget by Edward Antrobus
5 Frugal Ways to Start Investing Now by John @ Frugal Rules
Make Sure You’re Borrowing From a Reputable Lender by Jason @ Work Save Live
Lifestyle Design: Recreate, Restructure, Redesign Your Life by Justin @ Unplugged Recreated
5 Reasons to be a Substitute Teacher by Terry @ Fix em Up Rent em Out
Obesity: Taxese In and Taxes Out by Kim @ Eyes on the Dollar
The Downside of Mailing Paychecks Home by TB @ Blue Collar Workman
Should you share finances with your partner? by Jon @ Grown Up and Stuff
It’s Your Blogging Journey, You Make The Rules by Jeremy @ Modest Money
Realest Confidence: Personal Development that Works by Alden Tan
What Makes A Good Leader, IQ or Emotional Intelligence by Limara @ The Headrush Blog
Affordable Romance by Jon the Saver @ Free Money Wisdom
Thanks so much for the mention John! Glad to hear your first time making a turkey turned out well. We got together with some friends, which is nice because you can split up the cooking. We (by saying we, I am meaning me 🙂 ) ate entirely too much and had a nice food coma. We had a good bit of leftovers too, which is a great part of Thanksgiving. Have a great Thursday!
We split up our leftovers too, 4 ways. Thanksgiving night I was in a food coma and possibly the day after too. haha!
Interesting idea to link to those who comment on your blog. I kind of like that!
Dude, a 20 lb turkey is HUGE…no wonder you had leftovers for so long. lol. I think I’d get sick of eating that much turkey, but it’s fairly flexible and you can add hot sauce or bbq which always makes it taste a little better.
We appreciate all the comments we receive so wanted to return the favor somehow.
I know! When I saw it at Costco I knew it was the Turkey for us. haha! We split the leftovers 4 ways and I still had enough for a few days. It was great!
Thanks for including me. Man, I played some serious xbox on thanksgiving. Pretty awesome. 🙂
Np, TB! I’m looking forward to next thanksgiving and XBOXing with my bro.
Thanksgiving went according to schedule. We are still working on the leftovers. Last night we had turkey enchiladas. We’re starting to get desperate for new ways to prepare the leftover turkey.
Thanks for the mention, and for your support for my blog on Best Real Estate Investment Blog contest last week.
Turkey enchiladas?! I never had or heard of that. I love enchiladas too. NP Terry! Whatever we can do to help.
Hey John, thanks for including a link to my blog – really appreciate it mate!
My gf and I cooked a turkey this thanksgiving for the first time ever…. we were terrible at it. We actually had to cancel the thanksgiving dinner and have the turkey the day after because it hadn’t defrosted in time! Ooops. Guess you live and learn!
Jon, sorry to hear that. I bought mine on a Sunday and just kept it defrosted in the fridge. Last year though I think it took 2 or 3 days to defrost. Hope it tasted as delicious the next day.
Thanks for the mention. I wish I had leftover turkey. One of the downsides of traveling for Thanksgiving.
You’re welcome Kim! A used to travel for thanksgiving too so I hear ya.
Well that certainly makes it easier to pick who to promote. I’m glad that I finally bumped up my commenting to comment more regularly on blogs I was already reading.
Yea, I don’t know why i didn’t think of it earlier. ha!
John, great roundup. How do I submit articles for consideration to be included in the roundup.
Rohit, thanks for commenting. I can take your article from commentluv. But if you have a specific one you’d like us to use send us a message through contact page.
The one from comment luv would be great