Mighty Bargain Hunter

Carnival of Personal Finance #54

June 26th, 2006 | by mbhunter |

Welcome everyone to this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance! It’s always a pleasure putting the carnivals together.

UPDATE: The correct link to Journey to Financial Freedom’s post on budgeting is here. Sorry Harrison!

Here we go!

• Discussion of how some of Free Money Finance’s commenters plan to pay for their kids’ college expenses.
• A serious cash-backer, from Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.
• Consumerism Commentary and Screech’s strange land contract. Will Dustin Diamond be saved by the bell?
• Fixed immediate annuities and their risk, clarified by AllFinancialMatters.
• Five Cent Nickel has a good tip on getting good stuff for next to nothing.
• Your financial health is something worth getting, saving, and protecting. Debt Free summarizes a few important ways to do this.
• Getting a budget and sticking to it pays dividends, as the BeebeProject points out.
• Tons of great suggestions for protecting your personal information from Wenchypoo’s Warehouse.
• Think you can quit your day job? Before you do, try Bryan C. Fleming’s advice.
• Pocket Change ventures into the world of building an external hard drive.
• Outlining a five-year plan for your finances is a worthwhile exercise. Tired But Happy outlines hers.
• Commentary on a TIAA-CREF Advance article on getting your financial house in order, from Fidelity Observer.
• A willing handyman in the family and a broken water heater — a win-win for Digital Breakfast and dad.
• InsureBlog talks about limitations on outpatient medication benefits and their clinical effects.
• A saving mindset — it’s all in your head! Courtesy of Towards Better Life.
• Interest only loans are a financial prison. I couldn’t agree more with Your Money Matters here.
• An insightful post on how Get Rich Slowly chooses personal finance books.
• The Family CEO is a personal finance do-it-yourselfer.
• Ian Anderson has gotten quite a few deals and steals with FatWallet.
• Making sense of economic data gives you insight to where the economy is headed and why. The Daily Bacon explains and comments on some of the more useful published data from the FRED.
• JeffSHoward.com announces a financial celebrity death match between 529 plans and Coverdell ESAs.
• We’re In Debt gathers some comments on student loan consolidation.
• A Stock Market Beat quickie on the receding waters of the semiconductor industry.
• Clearing your debts step by step — wise advice from Smart Family Finances.
• Queercents comments on our obsession with our lawns.
• Practical, candid advice on how to shop around for a loan from Searchlight Crusade.
• Three tips on how to be lucky, by My 1st Million at 33.
• Personal Finance Advice talks about how some people can get 90% savings on their groceries.
• Roth and Company discusses some of the finer points of backdating options.
• North Korea and mortgage rates? Quite a piece connecting the two by The Mortgage Reports Blog, with some Dennis-Miller-worthy name dropping.
• Story3Girl with a very personal story on her emergency fund.
• Take the family treasure-hunting for a vacation! Find anything, Experiments in Finance?
• A good variety of economic and financial announcements for last week from Financial Options.
• Kids need to be occupied this summer? Some free children’s summer activities courtesy of Getting Out of Debt.
• How much should you spend on a home? Check out Chris’ answer from InvestorGeeks.
• Journey to Financial Freedom has a tool for your budget worth considering.
• MyMoneyBlog explains what a hard pull of your credit history entails, and how you should use them to best advantage.
• A “Top 10″ list of homeowner deductions from Accumulating Money.
• Fat Pitch Financials comments on the ongoing online bank account interest rate war.
• What’s the breakeven point? The Real Returns tells it how it is.
• A new twist: Feng Shui for profit! Gotta read it at Blogging Away Debt.
• My Financial Awareness pontificates on why we get what we have, not what we want.
• Let the power of investing early for your retirement with a Roth IRA help you. Pragmatic Finance has more.
• Continuous improvement. From the Career Intensity Blog.
• If you have student loan debt, hurry up and consolidate, advises Money and Values.
• Home Insurance Guide says that a whole potload of renters lack renter’s insurance.
• Get rid of that pesky private mortgage insurance the About PMI way.
• Maybe the Good Ole Days weren’t so good with respect to pensions. Ask Uncle Bill!
• MomAdvice and the magnificent banana banana buzz buzz buzz cake. Balance your checkbook at lightning speed and balance your electrolytes at the same time!
• Trader’s Narrative catches TickerSense with its (ahem!) indicators down.
• Ask and ye shall receive. Single Ma found this out with her high-speed internet subscription.

Thanks everyone for your submissions! Lots of blogs I’m going to be adding to my RSS agg soon. Kudos!

Raising4Boys hosts next week.

Questions tagged savings at Cash Commons:

• Automated Savings
• Should I pay down my debt of try to build an emergency fund in savings?
• What's the purpose of a mortgage offset account?