The Frugal Duchess: How To Live Well and Save Money, Plus The Carnivals

Within the next week or two, I’m having a fellow personal finance blogger and Miami Herald columnist, Sharon Harvey Rosenberg of The Frugal Duchess, share some of her thoughts here with you as she promotes her new book “The Frugal Duchess: How To Live Well and Save Money.” Sharon will be launching a book tour both online (and off?) to give us a chance to learn more about this project. For all you money saving mavens out there, do give this book a look see — I’m waiting for my own copy at this time with much anticipation, especially after reading a little about what went into it, in Sharon’s blog post about her book writing experience: “What I Learned About Money From Writing A Book”.

Here’s a little bit about what she says about her book:

Instead of writing a how-to book, Bob suggested that I combine my Miami Herald columns with a narrative. I took his advice on that matter and others. It was a good formula and allowed me to mix finance with stories about my family. My vault of family tales, includes portraits of my unusual grandmothers, hard-working women from the South, who left their husbands and children for assorted reasons.

I’m intrigued!

So please stay tuned for more on this book tour, which we’ll be presenting to you here over the next several weeks.

For now, let’s check out the action at a few carnivals.

Debt Kid presented a very special Meltdown Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance, with the following great reads among 56 money articles:

• Money and Fitness Blog: Renting vs. Selling your house: a cost breakdown
• Financial Blogger: A Story About Banks: They Are NOT In The Real Estate Business
• The Dividend Guy: Bit The Bullet and Actually Bought A Stock — How Absurd!
• The Wisdom Journal: Where Do We Go From Here? How About Back To The Basics

Value For Your Life hosted the Festival of Frugality, Gratitude Edition, where I enjoyed these selections:

• Simply Forties: Frugality vs Environmental Responsibility
• Cheap Healthy Good: Veggie Might: Don’t Fear The Bean Curd
• Bible Money Matters: Using Coupons Can Cost You Money!

Recent Carnivals

• Carnival of Money Stories
• Carnival of the Green
• Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog Carnival
• Carnival of Debt Reduction
• Carnival of Financial Planning
• Best of Me Symphony
• Rich Life Carnival
• Working At Home On The Internet
• Finance Fiesta
• Money Hacks Carnival
• Cavalcade of Risk
• Carnival of Cities

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