About

Kelly Whalen is the owner and editor of the ¢entsible lifewhich covers family, finances, and fulfilling your dreams on a budget. She has been writing her blog since January 2009. Kelly has been working in social media since 2007 as Co-President of a local community forum, and spent many years active in community forums since 1997.Kelly is extremely active on twitter, and Facebook, and has over 7,200 followers in twitter, and over 1400 Facebook likes.

Kelly uses her 14 years experience as a stay-at-home mom to help her readers find products and solutions to balance their household budgets without giving up quality.

Kelly offers brands an experienced mom’s perspective. She has worked with brands such as Best Buy, ConAgra Foods, Chevy, Kenmore, Colgate, Kmart, Playmobil, and many others.

Kelly is a member of the Yahoo! Motherboard, active in Philly Social Media Moms, and writes for BabyCenter as a BabyCenter blogger.

Kelly is a freelance writer, a speaker (on topics related to personal finance and social media), and brand consultant.

Kelly also partnered with Julie Pron to create Just Centsible Consulting, a consulting firm that specializes in events, and campaigns between brands and bloggers. She also works with a collective of bloggers at Splash Creative Media, a small social media marketing firm that focuses on new product launches, and month-long campaigns with a charitable benefactor.

Kelly resides in the Philadelphia suburbs with her supportive husband, and 4 children.

A note from Kelly:

I started the Centsible Life to collect all the advice and information I learned as I started digging our family out of debt. Two years later and we’re still on the journey to becoming debt-free. It’s a long road, but it didn’t take us overnight to accrue our debt, and it won’t happen overnight that our debt is gone.

The blog quickly became more than a hobby as readers stopped by and commented. I soon realized I was helping other people and building a place where people could learn how to manage their finances and live a better life. Now the Centsible Life is my job, and it’s a job I love. I’m fortunate enough to get to write, talk to readers, and still be available for after school pickups and snuggles before bedtime.

Have questions you’d like to ask or a blog post you’d like to see? Email me at kelly@thecentsiblelife.com. I’m always happy to hear from readers.

Kelly

Brittany Turulski: Coupons & Deals Editor

Brittany Turulski is a staff writer for the Centsible Life. She is a busy stay at home mom of four children ages 6 and under. After the birth of her second child she and her husband made the decision to stay at home with her young kids.  It was not a tough decision since she felt strongly that she needed to take the time off of work to raise her little ones, but it wasn’t a financially easy choice. She and her husband work hard to manage the family finances so she can be at home.

Brittany has a BA in communications from UNC. Prior to her career as a mom, she worked in several different areas within the banking industry.  Working in the credit card industry opened her eyes to how easily people could get into debt and how often people live paycheck to paycheck. That experience motivated her to actively save and balance the household budget.

Brittany is active in her Christian church community and can often be found volunteering there. She lives in Delaware with her husband and four children.

Kelly Kinkaid: Staff Writer

Kelly Kinkaid is the founder and creator of Kellyology, a personal blog that explores social media, stretching a dollar, fitness, and living a life well lived in Oklahoma. Kelly has been active within the social media community since 2004 and enjoys exploring new forms of social media and communication. She has attended several social media conferences, spends entirely too much time on Twitter, and spends all of her spare time in her many roles including but not limited to:

• soccer, basketball, swimmer, band, and piano mom
• wife to rabid Oklahoma State University Cowboys fan and C.P.A.
• a runner who is training for her first half marathon
• the woman who is actively attempting to and is sometimes successful at ruining her children’s short lives.

She is currently a writer for Blissfully Domestic and The Centsible Life, and is an active member of Kathleen Turner Overdrive (an award winning trivia team…in their own minds). Kelly especially enjoys talking about herself in third person.

You may contact her at kellyology [at] gmail [dot] com. Other places you can find Kelly are; Kelly Kinkaid.com,Linked In, Facebook, and Twitter.

Candice Berneman Kahn: Craft Editor

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