The Performancing Blog Awards for 2007 are over and the winners have been announced.
Congratulations to the Prosper blog for getting the nod for “Best Use of a Corporate Blog” — will we now be seeing many other corporate blogs following Prosper’s example? 
And congratulations to The Simple Dollar for winning the top blog in the finance and money category.
Great job to all!
Personal Finance Reads
- The Simple Dollar: Trent offers some really interesting frugal ideas when you’re at the airport facing new security restrictions. You don’t need to part with your money even though you’re traveling.
- Money, Matter and More Musings: Get a load of the world’s cheapest car: the $2,500 Tata Nano! It may be a perfect drive for some parts of the world but it may not be practical for our freeways. Would you own one?
- Lazy Man and Money: Lazy Man wonders whether to entertain himself with Netflix or with Blockbuster. We’ve been Netflix customers for many years now and have found it well worth the membership.
- Money Smart Life: Tina joins the Prosper bandwagon by bringing attention to Prosper and peer-to-peer lending. Nice to hear how this campaign is snowballing!
- Gen X Finance: Don’t let the current market climate get you down — this is Jeremy’s message to all those people calling him to get updates on their investments lately.
- The Sun’s Financial Diary: Sun provides pretty good advice when he broaches the question: should you invest in individual stocks or mutual funds if you only have small amounts to invest?
- Five Cent Nickel: Nickel wonders how much cash he should have on hand or sitting around his house. $500? In our case, we don’t have very much cash sitting at home — it makes me feel safer this way strangely enough.
- Mighty Bargain Hunter: A lot of what’s in personal finance is discipline. It’s not a difficult topic to learn and understand though many of us may have trouble with the execution of those financial concepts we read about.
- Free Money Finance: FMF brings up why he posts about the Bible and Money. I appreciate this new angle he’s come up with to change things up a bit.
- No Credit Needed: NCN has some suggestions about how you should handle your credit card company when you’ve got them on the line.
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich: Why do people decide to buy homes without much research? I’ve got a friend who got so excited about becoming a landlady that she bought a duplex in Texas sight unseen despite my scare tactics. Is emotion the enemy of investment?
Additional Readings Around The Web
- Leveraging Your Relationships #2: How To Achieve Better Relationships @ Cooking Money
- What to do when your debit card gets stolen @ Gather Little By Little
- Helping Your Teenager Become a Millionaire @ Frugal Dad
- Hot Finance Carnivals!
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Great articles here. I particularly like Gen X Finance — great advice!
Thanks for the mention on, “Helping Your Teenager Become a Millionaire.” I enjoyed all the articles in this roundup – congrats to Trent as well!
Thanks for the link SVB! Congrats to Trent as well, he deserves it!
Nice set of Sunday reads. Thank you!
Thanks for the mention! I always enjoy reading your blog.
Good advice for all money matters – Thanks
Hello Silicon Valley Blogger
Thanks for the head up. I had been looking for information on generating more cash flkow and these links are surely going to help me.
Regards
On the I will teach you to be rich site. The writer is right on about people jumping into real estate with out thinking. Last month, a guy that works for me was recently married. His wife just had to have this house. He paid over full market value! I told him he could probably get 15% to 20% less on another house in the same neighborhood. He just shrugged his shoulders and wasn’t going to discuss this mistake with his new wife.