Carnivals for Week of 7th May 2007
by Mr Credit CardHere are this week’s highlights in the world of personal finance and money. Money Matters and Musings hosted the 99th Carnival of Personal Finance. A couple of posts caught my attention. Lazy Man and Money wrote about how blogging has helped him. If you are thinking of starting any blog, perhaps this would be enough motivation. You should also check out Free Money Finances’ being paranoid over giving his credit card over the phone at the airport. But hey, precaution and prevention is better than cure.
For a good laugh, check out SVB’s post on 5 Money and Currency Facts your History Teacher did not teach you.
Money Smart Life did a unique thing with this week’s festival of frugality. Rather than coming with a fancy theme, he simply listed all the articles he accepted. It is a short post and festival, but you can see all the headlines at a glance. So to keep it simple, simply head over to his site.
Journey to Financial Freedom was the host of the 86th Carnival of Debt Reduction. A headline from a post Debt Free isn’t what it’s cracked up to be from Queercents caught my attention. I head to the site and realized that the post is actually about making sure you build a credit history. I thought that the headline was a little misleading because I have no credit card debt or any other debt except a mortgage and yet have good credit scores and I get tons of credit card offers. I think where this article’s advice would be useful is to those who have no credit history or those who have been bankrupt before and refuse to use a credit card again.
Please also head over to the 12th Carnival of Credit Card. Though this is a credit card carnival, I’m finding lots of non-credit card, but personal finance type post.
Finally, I will be hosting next week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction. Summit your post no later than 6pm EST here.