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This week I entered four carnivals that have gone live as of this posting, and in all four, my submission was an editor’s pick. Hurrah! Thanks to all the hosts for that great honor! This boosts my editor’s pick count for 2008 to 17, more than a third of the way to my 50 picks in 52 weeks goal. Yay! I entered one more carnival this week but it posts on Fridays so will be part of next week’s roundup or in my Sunday link love. On to the carnivals!

The Carnival of Personal Finance was at MoneyNing and my post about Budgeting on an Irregular Income was selected as an editor’s pick! Thanks so much!! Another post that I enjoyed from that carnival was:

• Free From Broke: Four Ways I Upgraded Out Of My Raises. For us, I don’t even know how we upgraded out of our raises. we just… did. This year will be different, I decided. Although, since we just raised the 401K contribution, my spouse’s raise might just bring his take home back to what it was a month ago, depending on what it is. But - we will not upgrade!

The Carnival of Debt Reduction was at Real World Really, and only included the editor’s favorite ten posts. Luckily, my submission, Earning More Doesn’t Help If You Don’t Spend Less, was one of them! Another of the ten that I particularly enjoyed the illustrations in was:

• Broke Grad Student: An Illustration of Why Saving Money is Harder Than Spending Money. Watch out for that cliff!

The Carnival of Money Stories was at The Financial Blogger and was really amusingly interspersed with what his old man would think about everything. My post, A Tale of Two Doctors, was also an editor’s pick here. Thanks old man! Being that my son is 3, this post spoke to me:

• Debt Free Playbook: Should A Child Spend the Whole Dollar? I say no. Maybe if that child is 15. At 3, I’m starting to teach my preschooler that we spend but we also save.

The Carnival of Money Hacks was at Mommy Gets PAID and featured my post, Head Emergencies Off At The Pass, as an editor’s pick as well! Four for four, thanks! Among the real life people named Hacker I found this gem:

• Think Your Way To Wealth: Avoiding the “Free Lunch” to Save Money. When is free not really free? And seriously that is one of my hugest pet peeves, when free isn’t actually free at all.

That is all for now, thanks so much for all the editor’s love! Make sure to check out the carnivals yourself and find some gems of your own!

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Welcome to the fifth edition of the Carnival of Financial Goals! The purpose of this carnival is to recognize and learn from each other’s financial goals and how we are doing achieving them, as well as learning how to set financial goals. That being said, of the over 80 entries this month to the carnival, only 12 have been included as being about financial goals to keep the carnival focused on on topic.

I’ve split the entries into personal goals relating to finance, and posts that help teach how to create a good financial goal, with an editor’s pick at the top of each category. Enjoy the carnival and be sure to support the goals of other bloggers!

Setting and Achieving Personal Goals:

• Editor’s Pick: Moolanomy looks back at the goals he set for April 1st and grades himself on how well he did as well as sets 2nd quarter goals in Updating My Goals And Shooting For The Stars.
• Being Frugal also goes through her 2008 goals and evaluates how well she did in March Goals Update.
• LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS reaches his passive income goals with Monthly Passive Income Crosses $2,000 Mark!
• My Family’s Money reviews his 2008 goals and the progress made with 2008 Goal Update: Challenge-ify or Die.
• Less Than a Shoestring breaks down how she meets her travel budget goals in Baring My Budget: London.

How to Set Goals:

• Editor’s Pick: Internet Business and Personal Success discusses one of the fundamentals in realistic goalsetting in Expectations and Measurable Results.
• The Human Imprint teaches us about the language of good goal setting with Setting objectives.
• Marketing and Fundraising Ideas makes the distinction between dreams and goals in Powerful Yet Reasonable Goals.
• Raag Vamdatt discusses how to achieve your goals through compounding with Start saving early and gain from Compounding - Early bird gets the worm.
• Get Financially Fit shows how to use goals to create a financial plan with Create a financial plan.
• Millionaire Money Habits explains that different people come at the same goal in different ways in How to Save a Million Dollars.
• Real Estate Investing Business Blog breaks down the concept of goals into bite size pieces with Small Actions = Big Changes.

Thank you to all the contributors and happy goal setting and achieving for April!

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This past week, my work appeared in six carnivals around the web, and in one, the Carnival of Debt Reduction, Small Changes Can Make a World of Difference was an editor’s pick bringing my 2008 total to 13! Thanks to the host, Motherhood101APlus! The other Editor’s Pick is an awesome post from No Credit Needed: Moving Debt is not the Same as Paying it Off.

Thanks also goes to the other carnivals that featured my posts this past week, with my pick from the carnival following my submission:

• The Carnival of Money Stories at Chief Family Officer included my Retirement Advice I Didn’t Want to Ignore.
  • Save and Conquer: Budget Tradeoffs. Some months, like the last one, I do a lot of this back and forth negotiating.
• The Carnival of Personal Finance at Stock Trading to Go included my Practical Illustration of the Power of Snowflaking.
  • Smart Spending Blog: Grow Your Investments One Snowflake At A Time. A guest post from My Dollar Plan about how snowflakes can grow your investment portfolio.
• The Festival of Frugality at Consumerism Commentary included my query Do You Save More With Automatic Savings?
  • The Digerati Life: Rent Instead of Buy - And I Mean Anything! This concept is so bizarre to me… but maybe I can rent out my kids toys hee hee.
• The Carnival of Money Hacks at Bible Money Matters included my post on How To Receive Your Economic Stimulus Check Faster.
  • Mommy Gets PAID: Personal Debts are the Worst. I’m no fan of debt - and I certainly am not a fan of taking advantage of people!
• The Carnival of Inspiration and Motivation at Positive and Successful Lifestyle Tips included my post about Taking a Catch-Up Day.
  • Think Happy Thoughts: 10 ways to Simplify Your Life and Find Happiness. Although if I did #1 I would be decidedly unhappy…

Be sure to check out the carnivals yourself and find your own favorites! Tomorrow I am hosting the fifth edition of the Carnival of Financial Goals so make sure to come back for that!

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This week I entered 5 carnivals, and my entries were selected as editor’s picks in three of them! I’m so excited and thrilled and ticked to have this honor. And, on top of that, my snowflaking post in the Personal Finance March Madness Competition at Free Money Finance won its game and is moving on to the Final Four competition this weekend! It is a great week for the spread of the PaidTwice doctrine. Thanks so much to all the carnival hosts as well as everyone that voted for my post in March Madness! On to the final four we go, which starts this Saturday, which is also my birthday.

Now, back to the Carnivals! My first editor’s pick this week was in the Carnival of Personal Finance at Million Dollar Journey which brought me up to a total of 10 editor’s picks for 2008. My post How Small a Transaction Before Plastic Seems Absurd was the editor’s pick in the Credit category.  Also joining me in the credit category was this post:

•  Funny About Money:  Credit Cards Are Good For You.  I am tempted by the idea of rewards.  I like rewards.  I’m still and forever thinking about this issue.

The next editor’s pick came from the Carnival of Debt Reduction, hosted by Debt Reduction Formula which bumped the editor’s pick total up to 11, with my post Debt as the American Way.  This post that joined me in the editor’s picks was apropos to my current situation:

• Frugal Dad:  Is it Easier to Pay Down Debt or Lose Weight?  I find the paying down of debt easier to focus on.  My spouse is very successfully losing weight though, so soon I will weigh more than he does.  I probably should think about doing something about that…

And then this morning, I was an editor’s pick in the Carnival of Money Hacks hosted by Antishay Ventenne, which brought my total editor’s picks for 2008 up to 12. Awesome! Thanks so much for choosing my post about Critical Thinking and the Media among such great entries!  Although I adore my house, I wish I’d read this post before I bought it, just in case:

• The Personal Financier:  How To Make Sure This Is Your Dream Home - 7 Practical Tips.  I did do most of these that were possible for us to do, but I really should have thought more about the maintenance costs.  We have a few expensive things we’ll need to replace, maybe before we’re out of debt.  I mostly thought about paint instead…

I also was included in the Festival of Frugality at My Dollar Plan with my post Frugal Travel Tip: Pack Your Own Snacks.  I just love this post:

• No Credit Needed:  Beware of the Laundry Detergent Cap!  I am too guilty of using too much detergent…

And last but certainly not least, my post It’s Only Five Cents More was included in the Carnival of Money Stories at Dividend Growth Investor.  Because this is something I want to do someday, this post caught my eye:

• Family And Finances:  We Got Rid of Our Escrow Account!  I have to get 20% of the house paid off to do this… I think we’re at about 2% right now.  Compared to what the house was valued when we bought it a year ago, at least.  Who knows what we really are at. 

Maybe 50 editor’s picks in 52 weeks wasn’t such a bad goal to set after all. Thanks to all five carnival hosts for including my entries and I am floored that three of you independently chose my entries as editor’s picks! Yahoo!

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Besides hosting the Festival of Frugality here yesterday, I entered posts in four other carnivals around the web. Because I already provided a whole festival full of interesting links yesterday, today I am just going to link to the carnivals themselves instead of making more picks of posts in the carnivals. Make sure to visit the carnivals and find some posts you enjoy! Let’s get to them!

Extending my number of editor’s picks in 2008 to 9, Being Frugal hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance and selected my post, Someone Had to Buy the House You Rent, as an editor’s pick! Thanks Lynnae! And if you missed it this morning, make sure to visit the guest post on my blog which was written by Mike of Quest For Four Pillars in response to that very post.

Other carnivals I entered this week included:

• The Carnival of Debt Reduction at Ask Mr Credit Card’s Blog and my post Don’t Set Yourself Up to Crash and Burn - Wiggle was included.
• The Carnival of Money Hacks is at The Amatureist Financial Journey and my post It Doesn’t Matter What My House Is Worth was included. I also want to mention that a snowflaking post from Finance Gets Personal is an editor’s pick, bravo for snowflaking! I am actually working on my own 100 tips post, I’ll have to see how many overlap.
• The Carnival of Family Life was hosted by Colloquim and included my post about my Way to Get Over the Bath and Body Works Habit.

Thanks to all the hosts and don’t forget to visit the carnivals and read some of the great posts!

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