Welcome to the first money blog article collection for the year, showcasing some selected posts from the blogosphere! We’re starting the new year off with these great reads:
The Personal Development Carnival for December 31, 2006 hosted at Creating a Better Life gives us 9 Ways To Earn More Money. One of those ways is to “lose your rescue fantasy.” This is not about abandoning your measurable goals and dreams, but those fantasies that get you nowhere by making you wait to have things happen to you.
The Success and Growth Blog Carnival #009, January 3rd, 2007 hosted at Cultivate Greatness has Of Diets and Dollars, which talks about the recognizable parallels between dieting and managing your money.
The Carnival of Family Life - Bring on 2007 Edition at the warmly named Be A Good Dad has Don’t Let Those Christmas Gift Cards Go To Waste, which actually gave me a sinking feeling in my stomach when I realized I actually had FORGOTTEN some gift cards from years past that I haven’t yet redeemed! Yet another reminder for me to rifle through my drawers….
The Carnival of the Capitalists, January 1, 2007 at Free Money Finance contains Self Esteem….On Borrowed Credit. This post touches on my #1 favorite subject about finance: money psychology. How does money affect people, their emotions, their behaviors and such?
The Carnival of Investing, New Year’s Edition hosted at Adventure Money yields How To Buy Low, Sell High and Reduce Risk By Rebalancing Your Investment Portfolio. What a mouthful. But I absolutely loved this relatively short, concise and info-packed post which I’m compelled to bookmark for posterity! Now if I can only write like Money Smart Life, or at least steal their css stylesheet.
The Carnival of Personal Finance #81 hosted at Might Bargain Hunter contains How Wealthy Should You Be By Now? It highlights an interesting formula and yet another way to get some idea about how much you should be worth.
The Festival of Frugality #55 hosted at Binary Dollar has How To Avoid Religious Scams. Since I’m such a sucker for scam stories, I needed to pick this one.
Webmasters and Bloggers - January 2, 2007 hosted at Sir Look Network popped my eyes out with Successful Blogger Gets 50,000 Visitors per Month Doing Blog Carnival Submission — Blog Traffic Strategy 10. For real? Wow, blog carnivals can do THAT?
Business, Technology and Knowledge, Edition 3 hosted at Uncommon Knowledge offers us The Battle With Paypal. Ouch! This post discusses one man’s disputes against the Paypal goliath.
The new(!) Carnival of Ethics, Values and Personal Finance #1 hosted at Money and Values gives us We Can Talk It Out. I know that finance and money are touchy, even taboo subjects to many people out there so that is the reason we don’t have these matters discussed openly. Since we’re all different, it’s no surprise that our attitudes and level of comfort surrounding money are varied as well. Interestingly enough for me, some members of my family are open to discussion, but not others.
I enjoyed these articles immensely. Hope you do too! There’s more where they came from so please visit the carnivals above and have a blast.
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That “Lose Your Rescue Fantasy” idea is huge. I know that in the past, I’ve been guilty of that one myself, and unless I’m careful it’s more than possible to drift into it again.
Thanks for highlighting it!
Thanks for the kind words! Unfortunately, I can’t take credit for the site design. That goes to Sreejith, over at http://www.gfxedit.com.
I do write the content however and I really do think rebalancing can make us better investors.