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I’ve Got a Little Space to Fill hosts this week’s Make It from Scratch Carnival. She kindly includes Funny’s imprompu shrimp curry dish among many wonderful posts. Check out the great kid foto with Liss’s No-Mixer Honey Passionfruit Slab Cake—and the photo at the carnival below the link to Frills in the Hills’s site. And below that, a boy and his zucchini! If you enjoy English muffins as much as I do, you’ll enjoy Kristen’s interesting recipe at Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker. If you’re a crafter already on Etsy or thinking about trying it as a market for your products, take a look at Joyuna’s article on promoting your Etsy shop…it’s one of three related articles—the two others have links in the first paragraph.

Man vs. Debt did this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance. BTW, if you don’t know Adam’s site, you must visit and follow it for a while: he and his family are engaged in a grand adventure, and he’s blogging every step of the way. He writes engagingly and takes awesome photos—it’s quite something to read! In the current round-up, Green Panda Treehouse ruminates on whether a Costco membership pays for itself. Dough Roller does a really interesting comparison between Freecreditreport.com and Annualcreditreport.com. And speaking of healthy skepticism, check out Bad Money Advice’s article on the flap over guessing Social Security Numbers. This week’s CoPF kindly includes Funny’s squib on the prevalence of scary debt levels among Americans.

The Money Hacks Carnival appears at Money Beagle this week. Funny’s tip on avoiding credit card hacking and balance inquiries popped up here. Let’s Be Curious contributed an interesting article on how banks calculate your average daily balance, and how you can make it appear higher. w00t! Money Savings Deals reports that Apple is giving away a free iPod with the purchase of a new Mac! And speaking of Costco memberships, as we were a moment ago, Money Blue Book considers whether the premium Costco Executive membership is worth the extra $50 cost.

M Is for Money hosted this week’s Festival Frugality, where Modern Gal contributed a nice piece on how to cope with a downturn in your freelance business. Over at Debt Free Adventure, Matt concocts a new recipe for homemade dishwasher detergent and rinse aid—and then he compares prices between the DIY stuff and the commercial products. Sound Money Matters posts an interesting article on the new system of home appraisals. And this editon of the FoF includes Funny’s update on the programmable thermostat adventure.

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