Over Contributions To Your 401k, High Unemployment Rate @ The Carnivals

The hazards…. and pleasures of being a carnival host.

I haven’t hosted a personal finance carnival in ages. I feel that it’s time for me to try it out again as a host. The thing about serving up these carnivals is that it takes a LOT of work. Every time I’ve worked on the Carnival of Personal Finance in particular (well, I’ve done it twice ever — see the 91 Ways To Wealth edition and the Money, Finance and Fancy Christmas edition of the CoPF — it would take me all weekend to do since there’s a lot of reading involved along with fashioning the post. With more and more entries in the carnivals these days, I’m sure being a host is now an even bigger job than it ever was. But doing this is a wonderful chance to visit financial blogs you may have not seen before — so ultimately, I find it to be quite a fulfilling project. Maybe I’ll get to be a host sometime later this year. We’ll see!

One other thing — do check out the MBN Group Project this month which is at All Financial Matters. Lots of good stuff about kids and money! My entry for this project is “How Much Do You Need To Save For College?“, an article that talks about tools and strategies for our goals to save for college.

Now on to some fabulous links…

Carnival Favorites

What have we got at The Carnival of Personal Finance? It’s being held at Banker Girl this week, and here are some reads I picked up from there today:

• 50 Ways To Save $1,000 a Year @ Squawkfox
• 3 Money Decision Traps and How to Avoid Them @ The Wisdom Journal
• Over Contributing to Your 401k @ Money and Such

The Festival of Frugality #142 has found its way to Frugal Babe this time around, who is this week’s host. Here’s what I found there:

• The Pay-It-Forward Challenge @ Frugal Fu
• What to Do When We See a High Unemployment Rate @ MoneyNing
• Worrying About Money Never Got Me Very Far… So Why Bother? @ Budgets Are Sexy

Finally, RealEstateUndressed presented a Michael Phelps edition of the Carnival of Real Estate, and I was very honored to receive a gold medal in the “Butterfly stroke” for my article: “How Much Would You Pay For Prime Real Estate?”

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