Check out the Carnival

If you haven't had a chance already, be sure to check out the 180th Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by Living Almost Large.

My favorite post from the carnival is on giving the gift of personal finance education from Tough Money Love. He has some suggestions for books, magazines, and websites that can help give your loved ones a leg up on personal finance.

Best Posts from the 111th Carnival of Personal Finance

Thanks to Plonkee for hosting this week's Carnival of Personal Finance. He adds a nice British flair to it with his Glastonbury Festival theme.

My contribution was When Less is More, a reminder about keeping in mind the purpose of money and why more isn't necessarily better.

My picks for best posts from the carnival are:

• Money and Happiness at My Money and My Life. She writes about Jean Chatzky's book You Don't Have to Be Rich which talks about how, after a certain point, money doesn't really make us that much happier.


• Lifestyle Inflation by Amy Fontinelle at savingadvice.com. It's about how lifestyle inflation can easily sneak up on us. She has a few pointers on how to avoid it.


• Personal Rate of Return at The Financial Buff. He talks about the difference between Time Weighted Rate of Return and Dollar Weighted Rate of Return and how they should be used for different purposes.

Carnival of Personal Finance #69

The latest edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Carnival of Personal Finance.
My favorite posts include:

• The Benefits of Living Like a College Student by 2Million.


• Financial Checklist for Disaster Preparedness at Experiements in Finance.

I hope you'll also take the time to look at my post on my prediction for interest rates on online savings accounts.

Carnivals This Week

Getting To Enough participated in the Carnival of Investing this week, hosted by Free Money Finance. Take a look at the post No Guts, No Glory as well as a lot of other great posts.

Also check out this week's Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by Canadian Capitalist, where I've submitted Would you lose 10 pounds if someone paid you $2,000, based on my recent life insurance shopping experience.

Carnival of Personal Finance

Check out this week's Carnival of Personal Finance at FreeMoneyFinance.com.  I especially enjoyed the posts on:

• How to Get Paid to Go to College - A free college education. Sounds great, right? Not if you compare it to the college education I received. You see, I got paid to go to college. I mean, a lot of money. Like, five figures over four years.

• Teaching a Six Year Old to Save - We’ve developed a fairly effective allowance system for our kids. Not only has this system been good math practice for them, but it also gives them a bit of pocket change, and it’s worked wonders when it comes to keeping them form begging for stuff when we’re at the store.