Debt, Family, and Women – The Carnivals
Welcome to my roundup of interesting posts I found by perusing carnivals I participated in this week. Generally, I post half of the carnivals on Mondays and the other half on Wednesdays – that allows more space to look at each carnival individually and find some great posts. 
I generally participate in anywhere from 5 to 8 carnivals per week, so that could be a lot of links in a single post if they were all included in one.
A carnival is a great resource for anyone looking for a number of posts on a similar topic gathered together in one place. It also gives me the chance to find blogs I haven’t read before writing about similar topics to mine as well as potentially expose my blog to new people. Win win! Without further ado here are three of the carnivals I had the pleasure of being included in this week:
The Carnival of Debt Reduction is at The Baglady and it is the 1, 2, 3s of Debt Reduction in honor of it being carnival #123. Cute! My post Some Expenses You Can Plan For was included in section 2 on budgeting. Since I am a little budget-obsessed lately, I picked another post out of that section to highlight:
- DebtFREE-Revolution: Low Tech Budgeting. I think having a whiteboard for my budget would drive me nutty because of the erasing it and not having a record – but whatever works is great!
The Carnival of Family Life is at Diary of 1 and included my post on Teaching Preschoolers About Money, which is part of the Money Matters For All Ages Project. For a completely different perspective, read this:
- Suburban Wife’s Daily Dollar Diary: Kids and Money – Putting Baby on a Budget? I understand where the author is coming from. My parents were like this about money as well as a lot of other things – there were “adult” things and “kid” things. And honestly, for my parents and me, it ended up not working out so well. I do not or will not say it cannot be done! But since my experience went… less well than it could have, I am taking a completely different tack.
The All Women Blogging Carnival is at Barmus and my post Creating Subaccounts in ING Direct was included. Alsoincluded was this cute and frugal pictoral:
- Stop the Ride!: Birthday Tea Party – Activities. Have an adorable yet frugal birthday!
Check back Wednesday for some highlights of the Carnival of Personal Finance, Money Stories, and the Festival of Frugality!
January 21st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hey thanks for the mention, especially since it was your post that inspired my post LOL As for the erasing: this doesn’t bother me because I don’t think I WANT a record of just how bad our finances were last year
The only problem is when one of the cats decides s/he wants to mess with it…paws and tails have taken out more than a few lines of the budget before!
January 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Thanks for pointing out the post “Putting baby on a budget”. This is sort of the way my parents went with money when we were small. Although my financial situation is quite good, this isn’t necessarily the case with my siblings,so I wouldn’t say that it’s down to my parents at all.
January 21st, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Hi, thanks for linking back to the Carnival of Family Life! It was really interesting to see your post and the Suburban Wife’s post together – I think that at the bottom of it all, there is a commonality there of being very intentional about how you handle money/finance matters with children; you are both imparting to them that you care about their future, that you care about them as individuals…and I think the success of either method is really not in the method, but in the love of the parent behind the method. Blessings!
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Thanks for the shout out for the tea party posts! We had a great time with it!