Archive for March, 2009

Green Panda Treehouse is hosting the latest edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance! This 196th week of the Carnival features music from independent musicians S.A.M., Sol Driven Train, Bellefast, and more.

Here are the editor’s pick for best in show:

• Are Savers Dooming the Economy? No!
• How to Buy Checks Online
• Who Do You Trust?
• 7 Ways Companies are Cutting Back This Year
• Automate and Separate Your Savings
• Are Student Loans Bad?

More great articles are featured this week in the 196th Carnival of Personal Finance. Next Monday’s Carnival will be hosted by Four Pillars, so submit your best post this week to be considered.

If you are interested in hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance in April, May or July, read this information and fill out a request form.

Please keep in mind that just as participants are required to follow the submission guidelines, hosts are required to follow the hosting guidelines. Doing so provides the most benefit for both hosts and participants.

The latest Carnival of Personal Finance is now live on Stock Trading to Go. Thanks to the 91 bloggers who participated this week. There were no “editor’s choice” awards for this edition of the Carnival.

Next Monday’s Carnival will be hosted by Green Panda Treehouse. Please submit your best article from the coming week, related to personal finance, to be considered for inclusion. If you would like to host the Carnival of Personal Finance, we are now accepting applications for April through June 2009. The application process is very simple, and you don’t have to be an experienced blogger to be selected. You do have to be an experienced Carnival participant, with a solid history of linking back to the Carnivals in which you participate.

Before you apply, check out the hosting requirements so you are fully informed of what you are getting into.

The latest edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance is live, hosted by Free Money Finance. Thank you to everyone who participated by submitting an article this past week. FMF would like to bring special attention to five articles considered the best among all the submissions, a total that looks to be around 100.

• Living Beyond Your Means: School Bus Driver Losing Her $800,000 Home to Foreclosure
• Why It May Be Costly to Reject Paying Points
• Commuting Cost Analysis: Bus vs Bike vs Car
• How We Cut Our Car Insurance Bill in Half
• Stress at Work Getting You Down? How To Manage Job Burnout

Next week’s Carnival of Personal Finance will be hosted by Stock Trading to Go. Submit your best article from this week in order to be considered.