Here I am again to toast the tireless efforts of my blogging comrades, whose work can be found in these following places:

Birth of Your Home Office Carnival #1 hosted at A Meeting Place For All Home Office Women has this piece that I found very fascinating: Unlocking Keys To Innkeeping. I’m quite partial to inns, and bed and breakfast places; I remain curious about how such a business is run!

The 10th Carnival of Travel hosted at TripHub was a delight to visit! And it yielded an entry from one of these blogs I actually visit on occasion, called “Coconuter”. It’s the blog of a young man who has pulled up roots in the U.S. to live in the Pacific — very exotic, very adventurous and very gutsy.

The Carnival of Personal Development for January 14, 2007 hosted at Balanced Life Center has Your Crucial Key To Success. Is it vision? Expertise? Talent? Networking? Read on to find out.

The Carnival of Family Life #37 hosted at More4Kids, Inc contains this heartwarming entry from a fellow finance blogger: Lessons From My Daughter - Creativity. It’s refreshing to see this little bit of a departure from the usual money talk in wealth building blogs.


The Carnival of Fraud, 19th Edition hosted at The FRAUDfiles Blog warns us about an email scam in Find the Dead Giveaway on this Phishing.

The Carnival of Investing on Martin Luther King Day hosted at The Sun’s Financial Diary brings us the very informative 10 New ETF Trends for 2007. It’s definitely given me food for thought when considering our investment strategies for the year.

The 83rd Carnival of Personal Finance hosted at Young and Broke has this great piece on The Top 25 Personal Finance Myths. It’s a pretty substantial list, but man, does it hit home! Very nicely done.

The Carnival of Real Estate for January 15, 2007 hosted at 360Digest yields this funny piece called Elvis = Zillow, in honor of Elvis’ birthday. How do they compare? Read it over there!

The Carnival of The Capitalists for January 15, 2007 hosted at Endless Gibberish (the name makes me chuckle!) contains Correcting Roth IRA Contribution Mistakes. This helpful article reminds us to watch out for unexpected overcontributions to our IRAs.

The Internet Money Makers Carnival, 6th Edition hosted at My Quest To Make Money On The Internet presents How To Turn Your AdSense Earnings From $10 To $800 A Week. Yes, I probably need a major AdSense overhaul, but I just haven’t had the time, since writing content is my foremost priority for this site!

Interestingly, I’ve noticed that the fastest growing segment for blog carnivals happens to be those covering web publishing, blogging, blog monetization and marketing, but the Monetize Your Blog - January 16, 2007 Edition hosted at Blog It And Earn It stands out as offering quite a bit of information and analysis in this arena. It’s been a while since I’ve written a post on my experiences as a blogger, so maybe at some point, I’ll be writing anew on this very topic. Another newcomer in this area is Blogging For Cash, 1st Edition hosted at Kumiko’s Cash Quest.

The Personal Growth Carnival, Pruned Edition hosted at Bryan C. Fleming has the entry 14 Lessons on Money, which took the words right out of my keyboard.

The Work At Home Entrepreneurs Carnival for January 16, 2007 hosted at Work At Home Entrepreneurs has just announced that Immigrants Are More Likely to Become Successful Entrepreneurs & Business Owners. Do you agree with this bold statement?

The Cavalcade of Risk #17 hosted at Health Business Blog reminds us How To Take Risks, to find more freedom in living.


And for some choice articles from my reading list:

At All Financial Matters, there’s a great post called A 2% Withdrawal Rate For Retirement? which discusses the consequences of withdrawing amounts from your nest egg at varying rates. It sure sounds like we’ll need more and more money to retire; an unsettling thought to say the least.

At One Frugal Girl, she inquires When Someone Asks How Much You Make… then suggests a clever way to answer that question!

 
Well that was quite a ton I read and a tome I wrote, and man, are my fingers tired! That wraps up another eventful week.