Last week (running behind) we were included on five carnivals and festivals - a very busy week! On top of that, we hosted the Carnival of Money Stories on Tuesday. Lots of great posts there, so be sure not to miss that.

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On with the round up...

Carnival of Personal Finance: Is hosted by Broke Grad Student, recapping highlights of the Beijing Olympic games. It seems to us that some of the scoring systems in the Olympics need an overhaul, just like the US checking system. Here is an article that I enjoyed:

• No Debt Plan solves a spending problem in their household. Her fault? His fault? You'll have to click through to find out!
  

Festival of Frugality: #140 is up at FIRE Finance with interesting frugal quotes. Included is our post on cutting out cable and a few options to keep you sane. My favorite post from the festival is:

• Uncommon Cents shares a frugal DIY tip for clearing clogs. I'll have to look into this!
  

Carnival of All Things Eco: #14 is up at Focus Organic and features our walk-through on making t-shirt bags. Here is some more eco goodness from the carnival:

• The Art of Balanced Living shares a tip on recycling those CFLs you just installed.
  

Carnival of Money Stories: Was hosted right here! Be sure to check this out if you haven't already cured your post-Olympic hangover. Those making the podium in the synchronized blogging event were:

• vh presents Lemonade from a Financial Lemon posted at Funny About Money. Very well written (as you may expect form an English Prof!). Death, a back-stabbing Ex, the evil step-mother, and a happy ending (paid-off house!). What more could you want?
• Mr. ToughMoneyLove presents On Money, Personal Finance and Being Judgmental posted at Tough Money Love » The Hard Truth about Money and Personal Finance. A no-holds-barred assessment of how comments and advice are received, sometimes poorly. A long post, but a great pay-off at the end.
• The Happy Rock presents A New Stage In My Financial Journey posted at The Happy Rock. I think you just understood the great misunderstanding - what a great place to be!

Make It From Scratch! Carnival: Was hosted by Learning the Ropes and featured our tutorial on making reusable t-shirt bags. It's a big hit on Stumble, too.

• Lisa's Cookblog has an apple cinnamon pancake recipe that I'm dying to try.
  

Finance Fiesta: Was at Master Your Card this week with a theme that I can barely spell let alone pronounce - cut and paste is even having issues. Fear of the number 13, that's all you need to know. No fear of thieves, in our featured post about someone stealing my wife's debit card number. How did we come out? Also from this Fiesta:

• Fiscal Liberty brings us 5 ways to hustle some extra cash.
  

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