The Weight of Money

Personal Carnival #3: Carnival of Personal Finance #85

Welcome to the Third Personal Carnival on The Weight of Money – I’m continuing my trend of pulling the personal out of recent personal finance carnivals.

The Eighty-fifth Carnival of Personal Finance had 58 posts — I found 22 articles (37.9%) where the personal was obvious. I’ve included links to the majority of those below.

1. What’s it Worth to You? Liquor, Lotteries, and Cast Iron Pans: Elizabeth posts about the different pleasures people get from their spending and suggests we put the breaks on criticizing how someone else spends their cash, especially when our own habits can be fodder for criticism.

2. Keeping up with the Joneses or not?: Living Almost Large shares one of my pet peeves – assuming that people who look to be living large can’t afford it.

3. That’s A Lot of Money: Blunt Money looks at the past 12 years of spending — things do add up.

4. Watching Dividen Payments Grow: The Dividend Guy is showing personal numbers.

5. Our Personal Finance State of the Union Address Money Smart Life looks at the state of their personal fiances and all the recent personal changes that have happened.

6. Switching to Geico: lulugal talks about switching car insurance for a better rate.

7. Credit Score Going Down, Down, Dow: Scott on Money tells why his credit score is dropping.

8. Creating a Personal Finance Goal: No Credit Needed looks at personal short and long-term goals and how they are created.

9. Acceptance of Your Financial Situaiton Can Be Freeing: My Financial Awareness shows financial acceptance as a positive step and personally relates to the difficulty in doing so.

10. Frugal vs. Cheap: The Stubborn Capitalist gets personal and looks at the difference between cheap and frugal.

11. Get Rich!! Play the Lottery!! Somebody has to win!!: My Financial Journey talks about his reaction to his partner throwing $10 at the lottery.

12. The Great Big Lie About Personal Finance Blogging! Making Our Way lashes out at the hopes and dreams of some personal finance bloggers – blogging ain’t the get rich scheme you might think it is.

13. Musings on Commuting PegL talks about her 5.5 commute to work and why she is making the drive.

14. Recieved Student Loan Check Today, What Should We Do With It: David at My Two Dollars considers what to do with the student loan check.

15. Prioritizing Between 401(k) and Roth IRA Contributions: Financial Fitness tackles the retirement investment options.

16. True Me Up, Baby: Mapgirl’s company is kicking in some extra dough for front-loading 401 investors.

17. A fool and His Money: Burford Twain looks at the Motley Fool through a lens of personal experience, growth, and learning.

18. Three More Ways to Insure Income for Life During Retirement: Free Money Finance takes another look at the Bogglehead’s book and suggestions he is using for retirement.

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