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

• Saving Money is Not Hard!

• MoneyWell Review

• 10 easy ways to save money

• Should Christians Tithe While Paying Off Debt?

• Save Money – Raise Chickens!

• Emergency Fund Malfunction

• 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…

• Compensation Drives Action

• 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…

• How To Stay Broke Forever

• 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

• The Entitlement Generation

• 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

• 7 Steps to Remaining Poor

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

THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY

1. Subprime Bail Out? Hell No!

2. Feeling Slightly Better About Not Saving Enough

3. Spendthrift Nation: Drowning in Debt

4. Should High Schools Require Money Management Classes?

5. Half of All Workers Have Savings less than $25K? Really?

6. Sauce for Goose, Gander and Other…

RETIREMENT PLANNING

1. Maxing Out Retirement = Saving Too Much?

2. How to Prioritize Your Retirement Accounts

3. Deferred Income Can Significantly Help Retiring Early

4. Campaigning for a ROTH 401k

5. Spring Cleaning In My IRA

6. Top 10 Signs Your Retirement Plan is Not Going to Work

REAL ESTATE RELATED

1. The 5 Important Habits of a Successful Real Estate Investor

2. Financial Train Wreck – The Pastor’s House

3. Your Home – Asset or Liability?

BUDGETING & HOUSEHOLD FINANCE

1. 5 Best Online Comparison Shopping Tools

2. What a Treat

3. Title: Applying GTD Principles to Your Personal Finances – Part 1

4. You Can’t Buy a Miscellaneous

5. Buying a Nikon Coolpix L10: That Boy Sure Can Save!

6. Cutting The Fat on Your Budget

7. Five Steps to Get Your Home in Shape for Summer

8. Marriage and Money

9. The Risks of Being a Stay at Home Parent

10. HOWTO: Protect What’s Left of Your Consumer Privacy

11. Saving Money When Buying a Lawnmower

12. Healthcare When Loosing a Job

13. Getting a Big Tax Refund This Year? Some Things To Consider

14. Save Time and Money Packing Your Lunch

15. Money and Marriage

CONSUMER DEBT

1. How To Kill Your Credit Instantly With Mortgage Fraud And Subprime Borrowing

2. Preparing For Life Without A Credit Card

3. Income Tax: The Original Form 1040

4. Why I Hate Pre-Bankruptcy Credit Counseling

5. How to Obtain Your Credit Report for Free

MISCELLANEOUS

1. Why Henry Blodget Tries To Make Saving A Sucker’s Game

2. 8 Secrets of the Naturally Slim (Wealthy)

3. Sports Pensions

4. Eight Tactics That Will Help You Win Any Negotiation

5. Avoid Income Tax Without Calling Down the Wrath of the IRS

6. How to Use Leverage to Make Money on eBay

INVESTING

1. I Need a Strategy

2. Businessweek – The Perfect Contrary Indicator?

3. Which Vanguard Money Market Fund?

4. Master the Zen of Investing

5. How Long Does it Take to Triple Your Money?

I think giving the CoPF its own home makes sense. It will help it grow in the long run.

1. Get Yourself Organized

About a week from your carnival day, the submissions will begin showing up in your inbox. Fortunately, most of them come from BlogCarnival or ConservativeCat, so they are easy to spot. I suggest that when they start coming in, you put them aside in a special folder or folders. Here’s how I organized the submissions for The Carnival of Personal Finance – Week 59:

When a carnival submission came in, I would check it out, decide which category it belonged in, and file it accordingly (making a new folder if necessary). This step helped a lot when it came time for me to put the carnival post together.

2. Decide Which Format You Are Going to Use

These days, I normally use a table format. Tables can be a bit confusing due to the programming language, but you should be able to figure it out once you get in and start messing around with the code (if you are interested, you can download the table I used and adapt it to your needs. Once you download the table, simply click on the View tab at the top of your browser and choose “Source” from the menu.). I have found tables to be time-consuming but they give the carnival a neat, organized look. I have also put carnivals together, using commentary and links, which works fine for smaller carnivals but can be difficult to organize for a larger carnival.

3. Set a Deadline for Submissions

Nothing is more frustrating than trying to put a carnival together while dealing with late submissions. So, I set a deadline off 6:00 PM Central Time. I reserve the right to not include any submissions that come in after the deadline. Normally, I forward the late submissions to the next host.

4. Put The Carnival Together

I usually start putting the carnival together as soon as I can. This time I started putting it together on Saturday morning. This is the time-consuming part and requires a lot of cutting and pasting. I normally go in the order that I have the submission in my Outlook folders. Once I have added a submission to the carnival, I mark it or flag it (see image on the right) in Outlook so that I can keep track of where I am. This works pretty well.

5. Send Out Emails to Submitters

After the carnival is put together, send out an email to all the submitters, along with a link to the carnival so that they can alert their blog readers. Most submitters are good at linking to carnivals. If you have email addresses for other bloggers, send them links to the carnival too. Also be sure and alert the carnival administrator (Consumerism Commentary is the administrator for the Carnival of Personal Finance) so that they can update the carnival page at BlogCarnival.

6. Relax. Your work is Done

That’s it! It’s pretty simple information but hopefully helpful information for those of you who haven’t hosted a carnival yet. If you have any other tips, please share them by leaving a comment.

Carnival of Personal Finance at mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge

Carnival of Investing at ConsumerismCommentary

Carnival of the Capitalists at Rethink(IP)

oh, and the…

Carnival of Business at MyMoneyForest