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This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance appears at Your Money Relationship, where Adam hosts the 219th edition. Funny’s contribution: Toothless Credit-Card Consumer Protection Laws. Don’t miss these excellent posts:

Darwin’s Finance
How Much Is That Puppy? The Most Detailed Dog Cost Analysis You’ve Ever Seen
Mwa ha ha! My favorite hobbyhorse!

Money under Thirty
Confessions of a Textbook Salesman
Guaranteed to jump-start your blood pressure if you’re a student or a student’s parent

Money Monk
What Is Upper-Middle Class?
Interesting statistics, interesting rumination

The Festival of Frugality is up at Automatic Finances: 192nd edition there. These two must be the grand old men of blog round-ups. Funny’s contribution: What IS Frugality? A few great articles from FoF:

American Banking News
What to Look for Other than Interest Rates When Shopping for an Online Savings Account
Smart tips!

Think Your Way to Wealth
Get Your Info for Free: Don’t Forget about 1-800-GOOG-411
Outrageous: $1.50 to get a phone number! Here’s a way to get directory assistance for what it’s supposed to cost: nothing.

Savvy Frugality
When Frugality Isn’t Enough
Resources for tough times

It’s Frugal Being Green hosts this week’s Make It from Scratch Carnival. Funny’s contribution: Quinoa: Pretty Good. I never can choose just a few posts from this incredible carnival! These are just some highlights:

Lobster Queen
Lobster Soup
OMG! A whole blog on cooking lobster!!! This one gives you a killer idea for using the leftover shells. I want to live at the Lobster Queen’s house.

Frills in the Hills
Lemon and Ginger Baked Cheesecake
Wait! Maybe I’ll move into Frills’s place.

Kitchen Stewardship
Mommy, Come Home: Work in the Kitchen
A thoughtful reflection from Katie on a crucially important subject

The Money Hacks Carnival appears this week at Modern Tightwad. Funny’s contribution: A$k… A few of my faves:

Doug Boude
Buying a New Home Is EASY!
Builders are practically giving away homes.

Budgets Are Sexy
Calculating Net Worth: Does Home Value Belong There?
J. Money and readers discuss Trent’s strange idea that you should exclude the equity in your house as a credit but include the amount of your mortgage as a debit in calculating your net worth.

Ask Mr. Credit Card
What You Can Do about Rising APRs
Goes a step beyond the usual advice on copying with the changes in credit-card rules

MSN Smart Spending published a version of Preparing for the Worst.

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