The Digerati Life

Come celebrate the Carnival of Personal Finance’s third anniversary at the place where it all started. Consumerism Commentary hosts the Carnival of Personal Finance #157: Third Anniversary Edition this week and it’s long, going on strong! Please visit the carnival as it’s brimming with a lot of personal finance tips and advice like what you’ll see here:

• The Emergency Fund- Where Should I Keep It and Why? @ Think Your Way To Wealth
• Is it Possible to Save Money on Gas? @ The Money Answer Guy
• Are You Losing Money to Common Investing Mistakes? @ Millionaire Money Habits

And right next door is the The Eight Little Pigs - Festival of Frugality #130 over at Out of Debt Again. I thought the host did a fabulous job with the cute and whimsical “piggy” theme, which seemed rather timely since my entry to this festival was about the recent increase in spam sales . You’ll find my article right under the “piggy who went to market” section! Do visit the carnival for more money saving tips, or check out these entries:

• Consumer Beware of Professional Service Providers @ The Money Crashers
• Free Isn’t Really Free. A Story Of Mendacious Marketers @ Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest of The Time I Know You?
• 10 Reasons the Diva Cup Can Change Your Life @ Squawkfox [Whoah! This one made me do a double-take!]

You can also round out your reading list with these additional offerings:

• The Carnival of Debt Reduction, Advice From Dad Edition at Blunt Money dishes out helpful advice on getting rid of your debt
• The Cavalcade of Risk #54 at Blueprint For Financial Prosperity tells you what it’s like to stick your neck out
• The Carnival of Money Stories #64, Time To Listen To Others Edition at MoneyNing gives us a collection of personal accounts (as in stories!) revolving around finance

I’ll have more reading lists for you by end of the week.

And finally, I’d like to thank Karen Datko from Smart Spending for making mention of my aforementioned “spam sales” post in her own catchy sounding article “He Will Not Eat Green Eggs and Spam”. That made me chuckle! Thanks also to Lance Turner from Arkansas Business Blog for featuring my post about how to recession-proof your job and career.