Everyday Finance has posted the 166th Carnival of Personal Finance, where Funny’s piece on the threat posed by the astronomically vast US national debt appears. This week’s carnival has a commodities theme — EF having just finished an MBA, the content around the links is interesting and knowledgeable. And the links are great! My eye was drawn to No Debt Plan’s “Where to Store Your House Inventory Documentation”…mine is (ahem) in the file drawer next to my desk — yipe! Dividend Growth Investor has some much-needed positive advice about the likely future of equities investments, backed up reassuringly with some convincing figures. Blue Jeans Millionaire has a veryinteresting post, part one of two, describing an approach to investing in real estate. Money under Thirty has created an Excel spreadsheet that will allow you to calculate how much you need in your emergency fund. At the Digerati Life, SVB lists quite an array of routine, almost unnoticeable expenses and explains how they can help you diddle away $175,000 over ten years. This carnival contains many other useful and entertaining posts — don’t miss it.
Living Almost Large has posted the 73rd Carnival of Money Stories, and what should pop up among the Editors Choices but a tale near & dear to my heart, Finance Girl’s story about what it actually costs to entertain friends with a nice dinner! Meanwhile, at Value for Your Life Amanda is determined to have her cake and eat it, too: she argues that frugality doesn’t necessarily mean deprivation. At Penny Jobs, Curtis has an interesting insight on finding work that you like to do. Funny’s Big Brother story appears in this week’s carnival.
Our Four Pence Worth has posted the 139th Festival of Frugality. Funny’s worry about whether layoffs are coming to the Great Desert University and how to prepare appears here. Quite a few interesting posts are listed in this week’s festival. Daddy Financials presents ten tips for getting yourself in the habit of dining in. KCLau explains in detail how a couple rounding on middle age with middling earnings can prepare for retirement, and Penny Nickel holds forth calculating the true costs of transportation.
The 77th Making It from Scratch Carnival is up at Life on Both Sides of the Pond. This carnival gets better and better. Check out these two AMAZING recipesoffered by Your Mileage May Vary, one for a gorgeous watermelon (!) salad and one for a to-die-for smoked fish and cucumber specialty. Here’s one from Seabird Chronicles for peach salsa that sounds really delicious. Funny’s recipe for cucumber soupappears, flatteringly, in this distinguished company. I enjoy MIfS because it has such a wide variety of posts, from cooking to crafts to household tips and home improvement. Check out Money Blue Book’s description of the great roach wars: you’ll find a whole series of ways to beat back the little devils, with critiques of how each works. And (hope you’re ready!) check out this ingenious washing stick from HowToMe.
We’re starting to postdate this blog entry: as of 8/21, Living Almost Large has posted the 12th Finance Festival, where Funny’s report on the advent of The Copyeditor’s Desk was featured. Among the Editor’s Picks is Jim’s first installment of a new Blueprint for Financial Prosperity series, “Seven Deadly Sins of Personal Finance: Skipping Emergency Funds.” The Baglady has a very interesting rumination on allegedly recession-proof jobs. And whoa! Here’s a riveting piece on how to profit on domain names and websites from the Shark Investor; though I’m no expert on this subject (by a long shot), it looks like this contains some useful information and fresh insights. Good festival: check it out!
Thanks for the mention!
Thank you for including Your Mileage May Vary in your carnival round-up.
I can’t begin to explain what an amazing cook my friend Janet is. The recipes really are amazing, and not at all hard to make.
If you or your readers try them out, I’d love to hear what you think.
Dear vh,
Thanks for mentioning my post–and for getting the point of it. I agree completely with the comment you left–it’s not about how much money you have, but what you do with it in your life. I know many people with much less, and much more money than I will every have, and it’s often surprising who is able to build a life that invloves true contentment.
I make it a point not to argue, or justify myself to negative commenters, so didn’t indulge the person who’d left the negative comment–even if they also called me out in their blog. Many people who don’t read my blog won’t know that we do indeed make some big sacrifices and think outside the box (which we’re happy to do) to live a good quality of life on one income while trying very hard to pay off huge loans from school in a short amount of years. Once the loans are paid off, I one day hope to volunteer all of my time to help people and animals who really need it. Knowing this is all I need, so other people’s negativity and assumptions really don’t bother me. I guess some people don’t understand that it’s not all about the almighty dollar for everyone.
Sincerely,
Amanda
@ Amanda: Sometimes people just don’t read very carefully, whether it’s that they’re in a hurry or their mindset predisposes them to overlook details that might change their thinking. Oh well!
I so appreciate the mention! Great summary of the carnivals!
We are delighted that you enjoyed your visit to HowToMe 🙂 and that you found a post you wanted to pass along. Thank you kindly.
Thanks for the mention, mate!