not the jet set: Carnivals / Festivals

Carnivals / Festivals

This week we were included on eight carnivals and festivals - two were Editor's Picks! We've also broken the 100 mark on subscribers, and despite Feedburner's waffling, we're very thrilled! Thanks for reading and tell your friends!

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On with the round up...

Rich Life Carnival: Installment #9 is up at Your Finish Rich Plan. As they get back to basics, so do we with our extravagantly frugal post on cutting the cable. Here is another post that I enjoyed:

Marcus Smith via Personal Hack gets us off our butts and getting things done.

Carnival of Personal Finance: Can be found at The Personal Financier, in the Famous Last Sentences edition. Maybe we can add, "All those Dave Ramsey listeners are bad at math." to the list. Some other notable articles:

FruGal asks why people care about what others spend on a wedding. Great blog name, btw. Had no idea.
Budgets Are $exy has a delightfully odd, yet insightful post. Now what are you doing playing the lottery?!
I Debt Because I Like Nice Things warns of high heating costs to come. What is your plan?

Festival of Frugality: Living Almost large has the festival ready for it's close-up with the Celebrity edition. Our Friends in High Places post falls under the Jay Leno - Savings/Coupon heading. After getting over the initial disappointment (fervently a Letterman fan), I learn that Jay is incredibly frugal for a celeb. We'll take it! Some other tabloid worthy posts:

Single Guy Money kills two birds with one stone with a garage sale.
Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity shares a great way to get rid of ants. We do this too, and it works great!

Carnival of Money Stories: Is hosted by My Daily Dollars and adorned in American 'Classics'. Included as an Editor's Pick is our post on something dumb I did with money - who knew? Here is another great story:

Harvesting Dollars thinks sensibly about Hurricane Ike, instead of acting in fear.

Carnival of Debt Reduction: The Mighty Bargain Hunter hosts this week with 'no fancy themes'. Just a focus on reducing debt. Amen to that. Reducing debt typically means changing behaviors and reducing spending. Brown baggin' it vs. eating out is a great place to start. Also give these guys a look:

The Financial Wellness Project considers a loan against her 401k to pay down debt. Is it the right move?
Paid Twice can't just throw an extra $1300 per month at debt. So now what?

Carnival of Financial Learning: Financial Learn brings us the carnival this week with the Hurricane Ike edition. Horrible what happened there. Eager to see what is left of Galveston Island - afraid our favorite sea food restaurant may be one of those piles of rubble they keep showing. Check out our post on eating out, as well as these other financial lessons:

Future Nest Egg has the top 5 sneaky ways that credit card companies get you. Only 5?
Truthful lending has a handy glossary of mortgage terms.

Make It From Scratch! Carnival: Funny about Money takes on hosting duties this week and has our ReUse It! Rice Packs post as an Editor's Pick! Definitely a series to keep up with.

Almost Frugal gets into Ikea hacking with a sweet laptop case.
Out of Debt Again has some semi-homemade, fully-frugal, customized wedding candy. Sandra Lee, is that you?
Fat Bottomed Girl (brilliantly honest blog title:)) makes chicken salad from leftovers.

Carnival of Money Hacks: Fall is in the air and On a Quest to be Debt Free.... is hosting the Money Hackers this week. Included is our post about eating lunch: in or out. Don't miss this one either: