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Carnival of Money Stories

Welcome to the 78th Carnival of Money Stories! We have quite a passle of entertaining and interesting stories, which I hope everyone will enjoy. Because this edition was delayed a week, we decided to publish two stories per blogger if a person entered more than one post and both were accepted. Entries are listed in the order in which they arrived. So, you may see some people’s names twice.

Editor’s Choices are marked with an adoring red heart:?

The carnival is looking for new hosts. If you’d like to help out, please get in touch with the organizer at carnivalofmoneystories [at!] gmail.com.

♥LAL
Living Almost Large
Keeping the Peace
Reflections on budgeting and matrimonial harmony.

GLBL Guy
Gather Little by Little
What’s the Most Expensive Thing You’ve Ever Purchased?
GLBL invites readers to share their stories.

Dividends4Life
Pocket Change Portfolio
D4L figures out a way to make blog income grow.

♥FMF
Free Money Finance
My Theater Responds
FMF’s movie theater manager jumps into The Great Debate over Sneaking Popcorn into Movie Theaters, and the readers’ debate grows hotter.

The Financial Blogger
The Perfect Drug
Financial Blogger reflects on the value of passion in the workplace.

Aryn
Sound Money Matters
Semi-annual Household Budget Update
Aryn discovers some significant changes in the budgeting adventure, including a small mystery.

♥Jim
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
How I Prepared to Be a Financial Problogger
Very interesting description of how a blogger escaped the ratrace to write for a living.

J. Money
Budgets Are Sexy
Using Your 401(k) as an Emergency Fund
J. Money is alarmed by a commuter conversation.

SoCal Savvy
Never Going to Retire
A veteran businessman reveals his mindset as he tells his story.

♥Todd
Harvesting Dollars
Financial Considerations before Starting In-Vitro Fertilization
Wow! Whether you’re in the market for a pregnancy or not, you should read this story.

♥Cash Money Life
Hurricane Ike Update
Blogging about his parents’ Hurricane Ike adventures, Cash Money Life draws a commenter with a disturbing story.

fwp
Financial Wellness Project
Move On after a Setback
Flubbed your budget? FWP’s story will make you feel better.

NtJS
Not the Jet Set
A Want Becoming a Need
Ever notice how things start going on the fritz about 30 minutes after your budget is walloped?

vh
Funny about Money
Recession Moves into the Front Yard
Is it curtains for Dave’s Used Car Lot, Marina, and Weed Arboretum?

Money Ning
Personal Finance Blog by Money Ning
What Motivates You to Make Money?
Money Ning tells why he works hard and asks why you’re trying to earn money.

Ryan Suenaga
Uncommon Cents
Celebrations Can Be Expensive: Where’s the Line?
Office parties start to weigh on Ryan’s bankbook.

Be This Way
Are You Going to Be This Way the Rest of the Time I Know You?
Captain Obvious Reports: Sixteen-Year-Olds Maybe Shouldn’t Be Licensed
Roger that!

Tanesha Morgan
Personal Finance Analyst
Advice to Prospective Home Buyers: How Much House Can You Afford?
Tanesha recalls buying her first house.

The Life Less Traveled
Family Downsizes Life to a Camper, the Open Road, and Adventures Rich in Simple Pleasures
You’ve heard of people going on the road in retirement? Here’s a young couple with a baby taking off from the UK.

Penny Pence
Savings Not Shoes
I Got the Room!
Penny scores a rented room in a dodgy-sounding London neighborhood. Yanks: it’s off to Dollars2Pounds.com to figure out what you’d be paying for the place…but get a grip on that hat with the feather in it first!

Simply Forties
Stupid Tax
In which Our Heroine comes up against a true dragon: the Internal Revenue Service

FMF
Free Money Finance
The Foreclosure Crisis Hits Close to Home
Hard times come to Middle America.

LAL
Living Almost Large
Personal Experience with Loans
Asked to blog about a story having to do with loans, LAL relates some scary details.

♥Dan
Everyday Finance
Consumer Fights Back: $50 Comcast and $26 Sirius Credits
Got a zillion hours to fight your way through robot consumer disservice mazes? There may be hope for you.

Jim
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
No Reason to Be above FDIC Insurance Limits
Dumb woman gets lots of sympathy from dumb news reporters.

Mrs. Accountability
Out of Debt Again
How One Family Escaped This Housing Crisis
A couple plays it smart and resists some high-power salesmanship.

The Financial Blogger
Unions: Is There Still a Need for Them?
Noisy activists drive blogger bonkers.

Miss Thrifty
Telephone Conversation with My Mortgage Provider
Gasp! Yanks who want to see this very scary story in 3-D should look at it through the special super-duper Dollars2Pounds.comviewing glasses.

Amy
The Q Family Adventure
Coupon of the 21st Century
Amy tries out a new approach to couponing.

J. Money
Budgets Are Sexy
I Once Spent $40.00 on a Bottle of Water…Bling H2O to Be Exact
There’s only one word for this story: amazing!

Money Ning
Personal Finance Blog by Money Ning
Save Money by Cooking, Even When You Are Not At Home
Ah…brought back fond memories to this old bat!

vh
Funny about Money
Glimmer of Light in the Tunnel
What the heck…as long as we’re putting two weeks’ worth of submissions into #78, here’s my week two offering.

Millie Kay G.
The Smarter Wallet
Green Cleaning Products: How to Clean Your House the Eco-Friendly Way
Millie Kay experiments with a bunch of allegedly green products and lives to tell the tale.

The Happy Rock
Financing College by Selling the Van
Mr. & Mrs. Happy Rock face a difficult decision.

Madeleine Begun Kane
Mad Kane’s Humor Blog
Wall Street Woes
Okay, okay, it’s not a story; it’s poetry. But it’s a twinkle of humor in an otherwise bleak night.

Mr. Tough Money Love
Tough Money Love
Reviewing My Social Security Statement in a Time of Economic Insecurity
Mr. T.M. studies the road map for the route ahead

Nickel
Fivecentnickel.com
Market Turmoil, Portfolio Drift, and Asset Allocation: Time to Rebalance?
Nickel discovers some unplanned changes in his portfolio; commenters add interesting chorus.

Amy
My Daily Dollars
The 80/20 Rule
Having paid off her credit-card debt, Amy ponders whether to change her game plan.

Silicon Valley Blogger
The Digerati Life
Financial Crisis in the Media: Is the Economic Crisis Overhyped?
Bombarded with hysterical-sounding reports, SVB takes a skeptical look at the news media.

Dan Noble (guest blogger
Silicon Valley Real Estate Blog
Mortgage Financing for Home Buyers Moving up: A New Model
Times have changed for a typical buyer in the real estate market.

Kelly
Almost Frugal
Three Life Lessons Learned Last Week
Several challenging episodes highlight the really important things in life

Robert D. Flach
The Wandering Tax Pro
Death of a Savings Bond Co-owner
Interesting question discussed in the context of a story

Grace
Graceful Retirement
Are We Sure Our Banks Know What They Are Doing?
Grace encounters the strange mentality of the Monster Bank.

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