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Yakezie Carnival Newbie Edition Spillover

August 7th, 2011

Here are a few posts from the Yakezie Carnival Newbie Edition that didn’t make the initial carnival because I was on vacation.

Sometimes errors to the spreadsheet happens and this one was caused by me being out of town with limited access to internet resources.

Isn’t it amazing how much we all depend on the internet for everything these day?!?

Without further ado, here is the rest of the carnival:

Sustainable Life Blog: Exercise Goal Setting – How do you set goals for exercise? Do you think they help at keeping you motivated?

PT Money Personal Finance: How to Find Time to Make Extra Money – Offers several strategies for finding time in your day for extra income earning activities.

Outlaw Finance: Where to Invest Your Money – Offers investment advice based on personal experience.

Deliver Away Debt: 10 Terrific Tips to Help You Stay Out of Credit Card Debt – 10 tips to help you stay out of credit card debt, even before you get there.

Stock Market Basics: Learn How to Invest Wisely – The article details the basics steps needed to start investing and the various forms of investment avenues that are available in the market today.

Little House in the Valley: Should Your Rent or Buy Your Textbooks? – An analysis on which is better; renting or buying textbooks. A cost analysis and some things to consider.

Free From Broke: The Best Credit Cards for College Students – What are the best credit cards for college students? I’ve listed some great student credit cards that offer up everything from cash back to rewards programs to low intro APR. See which credit card for college students is right for you.

krantcents: It Is Good To Be King! – It is good to be king or queen because you set the rules.

Our Journey To Zero: 130 Feet of Fun – What happens when my neighbors and I get together on a hot day? 130 foot slip n slide!

KNS Financial: The Treasury Department’s New Regulation To Protect Social Security Benefits – To garnish Social Security benefits can put many people in a financial nightmare. Find out how the Treasury Department plans to protect SS recipients from creditors!

Fat Guy, Skinny Wallet: How We Handled Emergency Travel Expenses – Recently, my grandmother passed away, and my wife and I had to travel out of town to attend the funeral. Find out what we did to cut costs, and avoid tapping into our emergency fund!

My Personal Finance Journey: Petsmart vs. Petco – Which Is More Affordable? – For many of us, our pets can be just as much a part of the family as a child (I am a dog-lover myself). As a valued member of the family, it can be very easy to spend large amounts of money on toys, clothes, bedding, food, and health care products for your pets. Two very common sources for these products are the stores Petco and Petsmart. This post takes a look at trying to determine which store will actually save you more money.

FamilyMoneyValues: Investing Basics – History of Wall Street – Investing in the stock market has historically meant using stock market exchanges (and for now – still does). What are exchanges and how did the big ones used today get started? Read this post for a short history of Wall Street and how it relates to today’s electronic market platforms.

 

Big thanks to the blogger at nodebtmba.com!  Sorry, my bad for missing these excellent financial posts and bloggers!

Still reeling from vacation,

MR

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Yakezie Carnival 7/10/2011 – Birthday Edition, Part 2

July 17th, 2011

Welcome to the Yakezie Carnival – Birthday Edition, Part 2.

The Birthday part of the carnival was in reference to my son’s birthday last week, but his week it’s in reference to FirstGenAmerican.com who just had her blog turn one!, and the newly born full-time blogger Crystal at Budgetinginthefunstuff.com (we’re very excited for her!), and Kay Lynn at BucksomeBoomer.com who had her blog just turned two!, exciting times all around!  In celebrations, I broke from my diet and had cake and some ice cream!  Congratulations ladies!

 

We had so many excellent representation of personal finance blogger articles, that I decided to split the carnival in two parts.  This is the 2nd part of the carnival below.

Check them out, I think you’ll be happy you did!

 

Money Talks: Never Say “I Can’t Afford It” Again – Language is a powerful thing. Try saying “I choose not to spend my money on that.” instead of “I can’t afford it” and see how it feels.

Faith and Finance: Teaching Children About Compound Interest – One small habit can change the way your children look at money forever. By matching your kid’s birthday gifts with a contribution to the ‘compound-lesson’ fund, you can help your child understand the impact of compound interest. Are you up for the challenge?

Living in Financial Excellence: My Lawnmower Broke and I’m Not Going to Fix It – About six years ago my lawnmower refused to start. I thought I would attempt repairing it myself to save a little money. I also thought I knew what I was doing. This was one of life’s hard lessons that taught me how much I really don’t know. The short story is I ended up destroying the lawnmower and had to buy a new one.

Financial Success for Young Adults: Finance Lessons from the Hobbit – Learn how to manage your money from Bilbo Baggins himself. Don’t be a Scrooge with your money, be a Hobbit!

Yes, I Am Cheap: CEO Salaries Rise Faster Than Average Workers – The economy is on an upswing if the rise in CEO pay is an indication. While the average worker salary increased 0.5% last year, CEO salaries increased by 23%!

Totally Money: Top discipline tools for scrapping siblings – An article about ways to keep the peace with scrapping siblings

Outlaw Finance: The Psychology of Savings: 3 Reasons Why You Don’t Have Money to Invest – Pinpoints three common reasons why people don’t have the money to invest.

Deliver Away Debt: Marriage and Debt: Who Is Responsible – Some tips on dealing with debt so it doesn’t hurt your marriage.

PT Money Personal Finance: The Secret to Understanding Your Personal Money Style – Takes a look at what motivates us and how that fits in to our future financial goals and our present spending.

Frugal Confessions: Can’t Get Ahead? It May Be Time to Get Out the Machete – A lot of articles I write here are about fine-tuning your frugal habits, budget, and spending. It’s as if I ask you to take a scalpel and slit open the tiniest of holes in your finances in order to reap that extra little efficiency. But what if that is not enough? It may be time for some more drastic measures.

Squirrelers: Doctors and Customer Service – Story about a less-than stellar customer service experience at a doctor visit, brings to mind the thought that doctors are service providers and can only help their business by thinking more about the customer.

Faithful With A Few: 4 Reasons That People Fail With Their Finances: What I Have Learned As A Credit Counselor – A credit counselor gets to see many personal details of one’s finances. Check out this post by one, sharing 4 reasons why people fail with their finances…the reasons are worse than you think!

Invest It Wisely: Nature vs. Nurture – Nature and nurture doesn’t begin and end with birth. As time goes on, we gain more and more influence over our own lives. I firmly believe that we can improve ourselves as human beings by surrounding ourselves with people that are better than ourselves.

Investor Junkie: Lending Club (July 2011 Update) - This update marks now two years since I’ve been investing in Lending Club notes (see my first review of Lending Club). Since my last update, my NAR has decreased to 11.32% from 11.35%

Mom’s Plans: Three Strategies to Make It Easier to Pick Up the Pieces after a Natural Disaster - While no one wants to imagine being in the path of Mother Nature’s wrath, there are some steps you can take to protect yourself if you are.  Making it through a tornado or other natural disaster with your life and the lives of your loved ones is most important.  Everything else is extra.  But following these steps can help make picking up the pieces a bit easier.

My Journey to Millions: July 2011 Net Worth Update: Great Month – Usually I combine my net worth updates with some sort small complaint I have, but June was an amazing month for me both personally and financially.

Control Your Cash: Programmed to Receive -Great story about Don Felder’s problems with the Eagles band (of which he was a shareholder for 33% of the company).  My takeaway from the article was that it’s owning a piece of the action is smarter than being an employee.  Check it out, it’s a fascinating read!

 

And this concludes the Yakezie Carnival, the Birthday Edition!  You say you want more?  Check out last week awsome submissions to the Carnival in the Yakezie Carnival 7/10/2011 – Birthday Edition, Part 1!

Thanks for checking out all the great submissions, Squirrelers at Squirrelers.com is hosting the next carnival, which is today (7/17/2011) too!

MR

 

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Yakezie Carnival 7/10/2011 – Birthday Edition, Part 1

July 10th, 2011

No it’s not the Birthday of the Yakezie formation (I didn’t mean to mislead you, if I did)!

Today, we’re celebrating my son’s 11th Birthday!

It seems like just yesterday I was teaching him how to ride a bike!  My how the time has flown by…

So the question is…

As a financial blogger, am I happy with his current financial awareness?

And the answer is a resounding  Yes!

I think the greatest thing he has learned is to keep a running balance of how much money he has and how much he allows himself to spend.  The coolest part of this is that he did this on his own (it wasn’t my idea, especially when he started at age 9).

He’s learning the value of money and has started to do extra chores for money around the house.  Yep, I’m a proud dad and very happy with his progress.

As he ages, I’m going to have my son read some of the Yakezie member articles, perhaps we’ll even read some together and talk about the topics that the Yakezie members write about.

The Yakezie Carnival is back into full swing with a very long list of entries this week.  In fact we have so many entries, that I decided to split them up into two separate posts.  The entries are listed in chronological order (as would be expected with a birthday edition!).

I hope you enjoy this Part 1 of the Yakezie Carnival – Birthday Edition!

Lego Birthday Cake

Lego Birthday Cake

Sweating The Big Stuff: A Drop of Honey Makes You Money in Negotiations – An epic battle between Daniel from Sweating the Big Stuff and Kevin from Thousandaire.  Read this article and Daniels (at the link in the article) and cast your vote!

The Ultimate Juggle: Hola ‘Winans Columbus’ – In the efforts to make more money, my husband and I have invested in and are assisting in the operations of a new, local chocolate and coffee shop.  Another great and exciting entrepreneurial object to juggle, wish me luck!

Money Reasons:  Benefits of a High Credit Score – If you have a high or excellent credit score, make sure you are using it as a financial tool!  Check out the benefits that you can use your high credit score for!

One Cent At A Time: Tips To Stay Away From Impulse Buying – The most common reason of over spent is impulse buying, we buy expensive cars when we see the guy next door driving one. This post talks about various tricks and tips to control emotional or impulse buying. How to exercise control to stop from buying things on sudden urge.

Sustainable Personal Finance: What is Dividend Investing? – A primer on dividend investing for new and seasoned investors alike.

Sustainable Life Blog: Importance of Insurance – Are you properly insured for life’s curveballs and think you have your bases covered? Check out this story of an event organizer who thought the same thing, until 1 man threatened to make him pay for it.

Compounding Returns: 4 Ways to Monitor and Protect Your Credit Rating – How to protect your credit rating.

The College Investor: The Best Ways To Maximize Your IRA Potential – A few key points to take into consideration that can really boost your IRA returns!

My Multiple Incomes: Why California’s Affiliate Tax Law Is Bad – A look at why California’s Affiliate Tax law is bad for everyone, including the government.

Money Cone: Thrill Money Investing – Although I invest for the long term, I’ll admit, from time to time, I speculate on market movements for short term gains. I call this Thrill Money Investing. I only allocate a very small portion of my investing funds, funds that I can afford to lose without losing sleep, towards TMI. Any gains are plowed back into boring, conservative stocks or ETFs. This is essentially profiting on current events, mob psychology and market trends rather than on company fundamentals. Of course there are many methods, these are some of the techniques I’ve used personally with good success.

Krantcents: My Journey to Success target=”_blank” – My journey to success from employee to financial freedom. Details of how I achieved financial freedom.

Little House in the Valley: Can I Save Money by Eating Out – As a couple, our eating out seems to be reflecting a similar or less expensive option for satiating our hunger. Can I really save money by eating out for two? Find out.

Free From Broke: Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card | Review – If you fly with Southwest Airlines then having their credit card is an easy way to maximize your spending to get free flights and more. See if this credit card is good for you.

Len Penzo dot Com: 100 Words On: Why Not All Debt Is a Four-Letter Word – Great reasons why some debt it good!

My Personal Finance Journey: 15 Ways to Save on Car Costs – When it comes to saving money on your car, a little bit of knowledge can go a long ways. Here are 15 tips to help you spend less for your transportation.

The Penny Hoarder: Make Money Test Driving Cars – If you love cars you will love this money making idea. Did you know you can get paid to test drive new cars at automobile dealerships?

Money In The 20s: Tips for Creating a Budget Quickly – I think a budget is a great way to see where your money is going and to make sure that your spending is in line with your priorities. There are many ways to budget, so here are a few tips for creating a budget quickly.

Saving Money Today: What You Should Do To Lower Your Car Insurance Cost – Learn some simple tips for lowering your car insurance.

Family Money Values: Grandma’s Money Camp 2011 Teaching My Grandchildren About Money – As a grandparent, especially if you don’t want heirs to destroy the inheritance you intend to leave, you want your grandchildren to learn basic money management as well as more advanced investing concepts and practices. Establishing the tradition of running a money camp each year for your grandchildren can benefit you, your children and your grandchildren by enabling the learning and practice of personal finance skills.

Money Is The Root: Forget About The Low Hanging Fruit – I urge you to forget about the low hanging fruit like daily lattes etc., and focus on the higher monthly costs that really affect your budget.

The Amateur Financier: Determining Your Risk Tolerance – There’s much discussion about risk tolerance in the financial media, but what does it mean, exactly? How do you determine your own risk tolerance? And of course, once you know it, what do you do with that information? Find out in this article from The Amateur Financier!

Prairie Eco Thrifter: How I Lost Nearly 30 Pounds – I had to start prioritizing my “loves” to lose weight. If a single brownie is going to cost me 6 points but an entire 2-3 cup strawberry smoothie with Splenda only costs me 4 points, I have to decide on what to eat based on quantity, quality, and mood. Since I love to budget anyway, budgeting food points seemed to come naturally to me. Within 2 weeks, the pounds were just disappearing!

Live Real Now: Family Bed: How to Make It Stop – When the girls got old enough to reason with, we had a choice: We either had to find a way to convince them they wanted to sleep in their own room, or we had to have a fourth brat for them to attempt to crush at night. We went with bribery. Outright, blatant bribery.

Last week the Yakezie Carnival was run by Eric at Narrow Bridge Finance, he did a spectacular job that really captured the mood of the Fourth of July!  Check out his Yakezie Carnival: Independence Day Edition

This concludes Part 1 of the Yakezie Carnival, the 2nd part will follow in a few days!

Thanks for stopping by!

MR

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Carnival of the Yakezie #50, The Quickening

February 27th, 2011

The Quickening

Wow, I can’t believe we are almost 2 month into the year 2011 already!  Time truly is flying!  Theme of this Yakezie Carnival is quickness.  So with respect to time and speed, I’ve chosen to put the contributors in my carnival in the order that I received them.

Okay, now that the theme of the Yakezie is defined, what exactly do I mean my “The Quickening”?  Well it’s actually a concept from a now older movie called “Highlander“, and today it translates to mean  “Git-R-Done“  with speed!  All joking aside, it means hurry the hell up, or accelerate now.

And now finally you may be wondering, “What is Yakezie“?  Well, Yakezie is a network of many of the best financial bloggers.  The network is unique in that it contributes it’s earnings collected from donors and voluntary contributions by members to charities (currently scholarships).  It’s truly a selfless endeavor that I’m proud to be a member of!

So now on the great lineup of articles submitted to the Yakezie Carnival!

Beating Broke:  What Motivates Your Finances – What is it that motivates you in your finances? What makes you want to pay those bills off and live debt free?  What do you most look forward to gaining by being debt free?

Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance:  6 Dangerous Investing Myths – Guest post by Rob Bennett at Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance. Interesting theory on asset allocation. It’s not the standard approach and offers a new viewpoint on an old topic.

Little House in the Valley:  Creating a Budget After a Melt down – How to create a budget using a spreadsheet after a financial melt down.  I’m really trying to push the key works “creating a budget” for organic searches.  Thanks again and I’ve signed up to host one in a few weeks!

Faithful With A Few:  4 Credit Card Benefits You Should Not Ignore – There are many credit card benefits to consider before cutting up those cards! Find out the 4 most common credit card benefits, and if they are right for you!

Fat Guy Skinny Wallet:  My First Day With Debbie Siebers And I Can Barely Walk! – My wife asked me this weekend about starting Debbie Siebers’ Slim In 6 workout program with her today! The first day punished my quads, but I’m not going to quit!! Plus, we still haven’t eaten out!

The Millionaire Nurse Blog:  Money Success? – What is the difference between success and failure with your money? A few tips to help you succeed with your financial goals.

First Gen American:  Babci on Time Management – Babci’s wisdom from an older day on Time Management.  See if you agree with Babci!

Bucksome Boomer:  Department Store Shopping Strategies – Save big at department stores with a three-pronged approach.

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff:  Make Money Blogging – Here’s how I made $6000 in less than a year of blogging in 2010!

Watson, Inc:  What Keeps You On Track Financially? What makes you keep your eyes on the financial ball?  Balance truly is the key to a fulfilling life and finances.

Everyday Tips & Thoughts: Change and Perspective – The unfolding of events in life can go either ways sometimes.  Sometimes when life looks the most bleak, it can just as quickly take a quick turn for the better.

The Ultimate Juggle:  How To Work – Working at work vs being at home with a baby requires adjustments to the style in which work gets prioritized and completed.  I describe my scenario and how I cope.

Carnivals and Roundups that Money Reasons was in:

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-MR

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Yakezie Challenge Carnival #7

April 11th, 2010

Well, this is #7 of the Yakezie Challenge Carnival!  The membership list just keep growing and growing! 

Wait… You might be wondering what is the Yakezie Challenge?  It all started as an effort by Sam at the Financial Samurai.   This is the original post that started it all: Creating Powerful Friends: Samurai’s Alexa Ranking Challenge. 

Basically the first phase wave of this challenge is improving your Alexa ranking.  Sam has since added addtional challenges, trying to help members improve their financial blog sites.

Since the formation of the group, members had added value to the group by additional sub-projects.  In fact, this Yakezie Challenge Carnival is one of the results from the group brainstorming process!

And now enjoy the great financial posts from the Yakezie members below:

Financial Samurai: Play Games To Save Money And Achieve Your Goals! – Great concept, helping people save money by making clever mental money games!

Eliminate the Muda: Combat The Closing Technique – The Consultative Close – This post had me at ““You can skin a sheep once, or you can shear it for life.”! Actually the entire “Combat The Closing Technique” is a great educational read! In fact, I’d go as far to say this is a must read series!

Planting Dollars: The Quiet Hours – This post hit at home with me because I do my best work during solitary time too!

Free From Broke: Wedding Questions With Anja Winnika Editor At Knot.com – Great interview and answers for those getting married from the Knot.com website editor!

Sweating The Big Stuff:  When You SHOULDN’T Worry About Money - Action speak louder than spreadsheets (ratios really).  Daniel points out that not all people are motived by money ratios, and to find what works for you, the individual.

Credit Card Chaser: Infamous Credit Card Hacker Albert Gonzalez Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison - I blogged about the dark elements in personal finance…  This Albert guy takes it to a whole new level.  Interesting read!

Canadian Finance Blog: 5 Ways to Make Your Credit Card Work For You - Great reasons to use credit cards instead of only cash!

Ultimate Money Blog:  Read Your Labels - What is having money without health?  As Mrs. Money states read your lables!  She goes on to list some of the ingredients to avoid too!

Darwin’s Finance:  PEG Ratio: Why It’s More Relevant than P/E for Stocks - I’m a fan of the P/E ratio comparisons and the Market Cap. level.  Darwin, present a good argument for using the PEG Ratio too.

Early Retirement Extreme:  Five things every early retiree wannabe knows - The title says it all!  Great strategic points to consider!

My Jouney to Millions:  What is Keyman Insurance? Is Your Business Protected From Death? - This is something I’ve never thought of, but make an incredible amount of sense.  Unrelated to the article, but congratulations Evan for getting under 100,000 in the Yakezie club!!!

Deliver Away Debt:  Zero Debt Christmas 2010 -  Now (or even earlier) is the time to start preparing!  I know in previous years, Christmas, and surrounding birthdays, has always had me start the new year extremely tight!  Using Jeff technique, you can really take the bite out of one of the negative aspects of Christmas.  Nice!

Monevator:  The truth behind the Natwest Black Card’s shocking APR - Amazing way of advertising a credit card!  Check this out, it truly is a shocker!

Fiscal Fizzle:  Can You Make a Living Recycling 10 Cent Bottles & Cans? – Interesting read and great concept (especially as a side job), but it was the Seinfeld reference that made me choose this article by guest poster:  Dough Roller. 

20′s Money:  Americans Get Their Economic Views From Headlines - Excellent point!  Great presentation for doing your own homework instead of reading the headlines!

Money Funk:  Maximize your Retirement Account - Very well thoughtout plan on the options for maximizing your retirement number!  Great details!

Punch Debt in the Face:  Funny Money Habits - I’ve studied the martial arts in the past, but apparently, I’m also a student of financial ninjitsu and I didn’t even know it!  Great post, I’m a little embarrassed to admit I have some of the same funny money habits!

Wealth Pilgrim:  What is the difference between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy? - Pretty obvious what the post is about on this one.  This is a good area to talk about, you don’t see this much out in the pf blogsphere.  Nice writeup!

The Centsible Life:  Desperate Housewives, David Arquette, and an auction - There is great material at this site, but I chose this article because of her incredible experience!

Evolution of Wealth:  Life Insurance’s Recent Overhaul - Great info to know, perhaps we should all look to see if we can get a lower rate on insurance (esp. term).

Well Heeled Blog:  New 2010 Financial Goals - Since getting a new job, Well Heeled rightfully has re-aligned her financial goals!  Kudos to her for getting the new job and the goal tweaking!

CJ Bowker:  How do you set expectations?  Everybody is different, and things come up that aren’t predictable…  What say you on this one?

Couple Money:  Debt Reduction Strategy Guide - Excellent compilation of debt reduction strategies!  Great read!

Rainy-Day Saver:  What Happens to Your Debt When You Die? - Scary topic, but just knowing your state laws is half the battle (or perhaps even more than half).

Frugal Zeitgeist:  Watch TV On Your Computer- Great tips on how to watch TV on your computer!  I’ll be referring back to this one!!!  Nice compilation!

JoeTaxpayer:  Your Credit Score - Discusses the magic involved in the computation of your credit score number.  Great explanation!!!

Little House in the Valley:  Homes in a Box….When Sears Ruled Mail Order - Great article, nice to see a one with a historical perspective.  I hope Walmart doesn’t read this though!!!

Engineer Your Finances:  FinEngr Meets T. Boone Pickens! - Wow, how cool would this be!  Congrats FinEngr!

One Money Design:  Basics of Bankruptcy - Great writeup on bankruptcy!  Discusses the types of bankruptcy too!

The Amateur Financier:  Correlation is NOT Causation - Truly great writeup on spurious relationships!  I see so many people come to false conclusions because of what Roger blogs about here!  This is a must read article!

Young And Thrifty:  Questrade and the Online Trading Academy - I’m not sure if this is in the states or not, but is sure sounds interesting!!!

Redeeming Riches:  IRA Withdrawal Rules – When Can You Withdraw Your IRA? - Nice writeup on the withdrawal rules on a traditional IRA!

Single Guy Money:  The Hiatus Is Over – SingleGuyMoney is Back Now - I’m glad those aliens wised up and sent you back!  Welcome back, sounds like you’ve been pretty busy!

Beating Broke:  UPS To Become Luggage Carrier - This is about Spirit’s airlines decision to charge for luggage.

Personal Finance by the Book:  With Apologies to Dave Ramsey, One Size Doesn’t Always Fit All – I must be the only pf blogger that hasn’t read any of Dave Ramsey’s books…   I think this post sounds like a great topic of a great debate!

My Money Minute:  The 200,000 Mile Club - Not bad for an attorney!  I aspire to hold onto my car for as long as Jason!  Very frugal indeed!

Foreigner’s Finances:  Why a Spreadsheet is Your Money’s Best Friend - Instead of buying special financial software, I also go FF’s route and use my spreadsheet for everything!  Great point on this topic!

Cool to be Frugal:  What Is Your Family’s Money Dynamic? - Mrs. Frugal talks about how Mr. Frugal’s family handles discussions of money matter differently than her family does.  Interesting dynamic, good read!

Saving Money Today:  7 Things Worrying the Middle Class - I’m a sucker for any post that involves the middle class!  Hopefully things right themselves soon!!!

Bucksome Boomer:  4 Career Tips for Success from the Military - Interesting, in just Bucksome’s military history in itself.  Interesting read!

Moneycrush:  Can You Invest With Just a Small Amount of Money to Work With? - Great article for someone that only has a little to invest per month or is just starting out with only a small amount to contribute!  Great job taking into account the fees associated with investing small amounts of money!

PersonalFinanceJourney:  7 Actions for Financial Spring Cleaning - Sounds like sound advice to me!  I think I’ll try her suggestions this year!

The Debt Hawk:  Opening a Simplified Employee Pension Plan (SEP) To Lower My Taxes - Great details about using a SEP to lower your taxes!  Also to my surprise, I learned that you can have a 401(k) and a SEP at the same time (as long as you have a side business that creates the income for the SEP).

Christian Common Cents:  Never Loan Money To Friends and Family - True, so entirely true!  Please head his advice in this matter!!!

Girl with the Red Balloon:  wedding-wednesday-planning-wedding - Sounds like a race against time!  But that you are going a great job of managing it!  Good luck and thank for sharing!

Money Beagle:  Great value on half-and-half - We think that Walmart is the best deal in price all the time, but this isn’t always so!  Find out why at the Money Beagle!

The Millionaire Nurse:  Apple’s I-Pad: Buying One is Stupid! - Another opinion about an iPad, looks like a iPad showdown between Zach and Dr. Dean!

Peak Personal Finance:  Your Options Under the Health Care Reform Bill - Interesting info in how the Health Care Reform Bill will affect you!

Narrow Bridge:  Is Your Credit Score Age Appropraite? - Good questions about your credit score age.

PF Firewall:  Your Guide to Income Based Repayment - College loan replayment info.  This is a must read if you are graduating from college with loans!

Family Balance Sheet:  Square Foot Gardening: Making A Transition - Great writeup on how they did it!

Dividend Monk:  Harleysville Group Inc (HGIC) Dividend Stock Analysis - Great research on this particular stock.  But more importantly, the Dividend Monk does great analysis of many quality dividend stocks!!!

Well, that’s all the members that I’m aware of!

The previous carnival was hosted by Tom @ Canadian Financial Blog

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