I participated once again in the Carnival of Personal Finance, this week hosted at You Need a Budget. The theme for the week is “Quotable Quotes“. My article, “How Deep is the Hole You’re In?” was featured under the budgeting section. Head on over to check out the other great articles!
Here is a sampling of my personal favorites featured in this week’s carnival!
- LivingAlmostLarge comments on 7 ways to stay poor.
- Andy from Saving to Invest points to 21 Signs that you are losing interest in your job .
- Debt Freedom Fighter provides 3 Credit Card Tricks that Keep More Money In Your Pocket.
- Dana from Not Made Of Money lays out the strong logic in how to Break the Cycle of Car Payments.
- FiveCentNickel did a nice piece: The Federal Minimum Wage: Looking Back Over Time.
- Squawkfox wrote an interesting piece: Cars Are the New Smoking. Can the costs of SUVs be compared to smoking?
- Fitz Villafuerte from Ready To Be Rich presents Simple and Practical Ways To Save Money On Clothing.
- Todd from Harvesting Dollars makes a great case for Spreading Out Your 401K Investments Throughout The Year.
- Budgets are Sexy gives My 4 Favorite Pieces of Financial Advice E-V-E-R.. There are some gems in here!
- MoneyNing (David) from Personal Finance Blog by Money Ning presents An Intro to Passive Income, and says, “Passive income, we all love it but seldom know how to make it.
- Money from Moneymonk warns that a large house could threaten your financial future.
- Del from Fiscal Liberty presents How To Change Yourself from a Spender to a Saver.
- Michael from Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck asks, “Can I lower my tax withholdings?”.
And here are the Editor’s Picks!
- Madison from MyDollarPlan quit her job because she, “lined up all [her] priorities in life and work fell off at the bottom.” I think the big key to her being able to prioritize work off her list was because she’s been working a plan for a long time now. You go Madison!
- VH from Funny About Money wins for the Killer Quotable Quote in “Dealin’ with the Devil”: “I would suggest that far from being un-American, putting the brakes on your spending impulses and shucking off as much debt as you possibly can is the best thing you can do for your country.” Zing!
- A takeaway from his great piece on Risk and Return: “regarding risk and return, the question shouldn’t be which came first? The most important question is how can I manage my risks while still participating in the returns?”
2 Comments
July 29, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Glad you liked my post so much – be on the lookout for more!
July 29, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Thanks for the mention.