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The Carnival of Personal Finance #226 – The AFM Turn’s 5 Edition
By JLP | October 13, 2009
Welcome to the 226th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. I asked to host this edition as a way to celebrate the fact that I have been blogging for 5 years. Hard to believe, but it’s true.
Anyway, here is this week’s roundup, arranged in topic order (the only way I know how to organize a roundup of this size). Next week’s carnival will be hosted by Fabulously Broke in the City.
Enjoy!
BUDGETING…
• Start Saving Money For Future Expenses
• 4 Hidden Costs of Business Travel
• Should Christians Tithe While Paying Off Debt?
• Save Money – Raise Chickens!
• Balancing Life’s Little Moments with Your Budget
• Creating a Plan for Guaranteed Retirement Incomee
CAREER…
• The Threat of Permenantly Reduced Income
• Why Freelancing Benefits Your Day Job
DEBT…
• Paying Medical Bills Without Drowning In Debt
• How Did Your Credit History Start?
• Don’t dodge those credit card company calls; they could be warning you of fraud
• What are mortgage points and should you buy them
FINANCIAL PLANNING…
• Why I Bought a $500k 20-Year Term Life Insurance Policy and You Should Too
• Goals Are The Gateway To Financial Success
• Calculating the Benefits of Double Health Insurance
• Why You (Probably) Don’t Need Permanent Life Insurance
• The Benefits of Finding Your Net Worth
• Big Claims, Big Dollars, Big Trouble?
• Do whatever works best for you in personal finance
• Probate- Why and How to Avoid Probate Fees
MISC…
• What Comic Book Characters Taught Me About Personal Finance
• Ten Things I Learned Moving – And Tips
• Learn More About Lending Club Credit Rating and Collection Process
• Google Android Personal Finance App Review
• Dave Ramsey Review: Should Christians Build Wealth Like Crazy?
• Investing and Money Rules of Thumb
• The Internet Transformed Banking & Gave Us Options!
• Why You May Not Want to Give Over the Phone
• Personal Finance for Unmarried Couples
• How to Win the McDonald’s Monopoly Game
INVESTING…
• The Stock Market: Stop Listening to the Talking Heads
• Recommended Personal Finance Books
• Utility dividends for current income
• List of No Penalty CD (Certificates of Deposit) Rates
• Gold Hype? You’re Being Taken for a Ride
RETIREMENT PLANNING…
• SIMPLE IRA Retirement Plan for the Self-Employed
• Only Six Months Left To Make Year 2009 Contributions To Roth IRA Or Traditional IRA
• Time to Take Some Profits and Rebalance My 401k Again
• Reflections on Two Years of Early Retirement
POLITICAL…
• Employer Tax Credit Stimulus to Create New jobs and Lower Unemployment – Good Idea or Bad Policy
Topics: Carnival of Personal Finance | 15 Comments »











October 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Thanks for putting this together.
And congrats on 5 years! My goodness that’s a long time…
October 13th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Congrats and thanks for hosting!
October 13th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Wow, congrats man! 5 Years?? The internet was even around back then?
October 13th, 2009 at 10:49 am
5Years?!? That’s like 25 in internet years! Thanks for hosting and congrats.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Nicely done!
Thanks for hosting, and for including our post.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Thanks for all of the work on the carnival and including my post. I like your blog and added a link to it on my blog.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Thanks for hosting as well as including my article on Utility Stocks for Current Income!
I have been blogging for almost 2 years now, and I could definitely see that you must have a specific personality to keep at blogging for 5 years!
October 13th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Thanks for hosting and congratulations on five years of blogging.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Congratulations on 5 years and thanks so much for including my post in the roundup.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Hey JLP – thanks very much for hosting and congratulations on your blogging anniversary!
October 13th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Happy Blogoversary!
October 13th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Congratulations on the blog anniversary. I didn’t even know what a blog was 5 years ago!
Thanks for including my post.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
wow, think how much more stuff you’ll have written about in another 5 years! thanks for hosting.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:19 am
thanks for including me! Have a great weekend!
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