The Weight of Money

Welcome to my Personal Carnival is where I round up the various carnivals about personal finances and figure out how often the personal is prominent. Due to the overwhelming amount of time required to read through all the articles, I’ll post a weekly tally and highlight any articles that personally interest me.

Carnival of Ethics, Values and Personal Finance No. 2: 13 personal articles out of 45 posted (29%)

Tired but Happy hosted the Second Carnival of Ethics, Values and Personal Finance last week. I enjoyed the following articles:

1. Get Up Off My Ads - Why Advertising Sucks: Good opinion piece on ads that I actually agree with in many ways. Of course, I also agree with pulling in some passive income from ads too. I’m still working on figuring out the balance that will work for me.

2. What Class are You?: Paula at QueerCents touches on a topic that has interested me since first discussing it in a family studies class - class and our misperceptions of it. Her article seems to focuses on the professional side of class, but I really enjoyed thinking about the social side in terms of authority and power.
3. Prelude to a Job: A post from yours truly where I start to reconsider taking a new position.

Carnival of Personal Finance #86: 26 personal articles out of 74 posted (35%).

The Simple Dollar hosted the 84th Carnival of Personal Finance. I clicked through all 74 links and found 26 articles including the personal side of personal finance.The ones I liked best were:

1. Making the Financial Sacrifice to Get What You Want: David at my two dollars laid out what he and his partner accomplished in order to live where they want. Considering my recent relocation woes, this is timely and poignant.

   After reading the carnival submission, I browsed to another article, How Sprint got me to stay with them instead of switching, that also relates to our current situation. We’re currently throwing away $100 a month on cell phones. Time to start playing carrier against carried (Cingular vs. Sprint in our case).

2. Stop Comparing Your Finances with Others: Five Financial Ratios to Keep You on Track: Good ratios that I’ve considered before but need to think about more often to help me us keep on track.
3. Be Honest with Yourself Darn, I liked this article but it is posted in more than one carnival, tsk tsk.

Carnival of Debt Reduction #73: 3 personal articles out of 21 posted (14%).

Journey to Financial Freedom posts the 73rd Carnival of Debt Reduction. There were some good posts, but nothing that I wanted to focus on.

Festival of Frugality #60: 26 personal articles out of 26 posted.

Frugal for Life hosted a pictographic version of the 60th Festival of Frugality, interesting composition.

1. Be Frugal but Don’t be an Idiot: Some good advice for pointing out how bring frugal shouldn’t be criminal or unethical.

Overall, the personal side of personal finances is getting a little less talk time in the weekly carnivals this week. The Festival of Frugality seems to be the one exception with the highest personal percentage and an overall increase from last week. Of course, frugality is a little more broad than personal finance and it is the one area where I consistently enjoy reading tips, suggestions, and less personal content.

On a final note, I noticed that Flexo is jumping on the keeping personal finances personal bandwagon, in his recent post. I’m glad to see more people pushing this platform and thank the many readers and comments who’ve been spreading the word.

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