Money Talk About Babies, Toddlers and Phones: My Carnival Picks

by Silicon Valley Blogger on July 11, 2007

Broke-Ass Student presented the Carnival of Personal Finance #108 this time around with 68 submissions to chew on. There were lots that I fancied! Here’s what I found over there:

My Wealth Builder starts us off with Retirement Saving Challenge – July 1, 2007 Get Started. Here’s where Super Saver guides us through as much retirement saving as we can muster!

Frugal Babe shares some personal thoughts with Baby Talk.

Plus6.com discusses the “Buy Nothing” exercises that frugal minded people do in Are “Buy Nothing” Weeks/Months/Years Constructive Exercises Or Short Term Fixes?

Rich Minx speaks of How To Nail or Fail Job Interviews. Her own interviewing experiences points to 90% of applicants being unprepared during interviews… Kinda shocking I must say! In my field of work, results haven’t been *that* bad.

Money Walks discusses some Tips on Protection Against Phone Fraud.

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Ask Mr. Credit Card gives us The 82nd Festival of Frugality with a pure story line format! And the cast of characters was impressive. Here are some offerings:

Free Money Finance dishes out some thoughts on the West Coast with It’s Very Expensive in San Francisco. I have dedicated part of this blog to pointing out exactly this truth.

Saving Advice becomes quite inventive with 17 Ways To Turn Your Trash Into Toddler Toys. I’m sure my kids would enjoy these ideas!

Will The Dough Roller help me see the light? My spouse agrees with this 5 Money-Saving Reasons to Buy an Apple iPhone, and has been using these justifications to get one. I’m about to crack here.

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1 Super Saver July 11, 2007 at 6:20 pm

SVB,

Thanks for highlighting the Retirement Saving Challenge.

2 Silicon Valley Blogger July 12, 2007 at 11:12 pm

SS, I think your challenge is cool. :) I’m keeping tabs on it.

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