Welcome to the 32nd Carnival of Money Stories. On this foggy and ghastly eve of Halloween The Baglady brings you a creepy collection of money horrors. This edition includes 21 stories about mooching relatives, timeshares, and giant wallops of debt. If you want to have a relaxing day please stop reading here, but if you want to be shocked, titillated, and inspired, please read on!
Editor’s Picks of True Financial Horror Shows:
Eric presents When Saying No Helps Your Family posted at A Penny Closer. This is a well written story about a truly horrible situation. You have to read this article to see why I found this story to be the most upsetting and scary. People really just have to say no to family members that mooch continuously and that is why I say parents should make their adult children pay rent.
Ana presents Stupid Tax on Wheels (But not mine!) posted at DebtFREE-Revolution. I fear debt so much that when I read this story I felt like I was being run over with the kid’s truck. He should really be feeling the weight of his monster truck debt but .
Repugnant Real Estate:
Millionaire Mommy Next Door presents Can Renting Play A Part In The American Dream? posted at Millionaire Mommy Next Door. Honestly, the picture insert on this post gave me quite a fright, but I agree with the Millionaire Mommy that renting makes sense for a lot of people.
Silicon Valley Blogger presents Don’t Let Real Estate Clean You Out posted at The Digerati Life. SVB’s dry cleaner turned into a real estate agent! I hope that guy will be okay, but the fact of the matter is that real estate is softening quite a bit here.
Terrible and Terrific Timeshares
Maria Fernandez presents Have an enemy? Buy him a timeshare! posted at Learn a foreign language. I am so glad that my parents didn’t buy any timeshares and just took the free gifts and ran.
Betsy Teutsch presents A True Tale: Making Lemonade out of a Lemon-Sized Inheritance posted at Money Changes Things. This is a great story about a couple quite scary things: a timeshare and a golddigging stepmom.
Triumphs Over Life and Death
Brip Blap presents follow the white rabbit to financial freedom posted at brip blap. I actually really liked this story and voted for it over at Millionaire Mommy’s Carnival of Personal Finance Contest. It begs the question “have you used your real eyes before?”
Raymond presents Life Comes At You Fast - Be Organized and Financially Prepared posted at Money Blue Book. Raymond shows us that being organized and financially prepared could really help in a situation where a family member’s health turns for the worst.
Scary Shopping Trips
JvW presents Shopping Extravaganza posted at The Good Life on a Budget. Group shopping can be pretty dangerous and you can end up with things you don’t really want. JvW shows us how she planned for a group outing.
freefrombroke presents EMOTIONS GOT THE BEST OF US AT THE PICTURE PEOPLE posted at Free From Broke. Marketing people really sell us a lot of things by playing on our emotions. This story shows us a prime example of this manipulation.
A Ferocious Fire
FIRE Finance presents Wild Fire Disaster! posted at FIRE Finance. I have survived a rather large hurricane and quite a few floods, but I think I am still most afraid of fires. FIRE Finance writes about the on going disaster in Southern California.
Repulsive Jobs and the Wonders of Unemployment
FMF presents Get Rich by Doing Something No One Else Wants to Do posted at Free Money Finance. My hubby’s ex-coworker went mountain biking with a sewer cleaner, and that’s when I first found out that they made so much money. We pay money to take care of tasks we find disgusting to do, and those with the guts to do these dirty jobs really really deserve the money.
Lynnae presents The Benefits of Unemployment posted at beingfrugal.net. Losing your job can be a traumatic experience, but Lynnae seems to see the good parts of being unemployed.
Hideous Health Insurance:
paidtwice presents The Ominous HR Letter posted at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already. I must say paidtwice’s family pays quite a bundle on their health insurance and this post made Brip Blap’s blood boil! Read the article and comments for details.
Ghoulish Greed and Feral Fees:
caw presents How petty greed translates to more fees posted at Money $ Liberty. This is a story of an App-o-rama gone wrong. I guess it could have been a lot worse.
ispf presents Bank “Upgraded” The Account and Started Charging Fees without Authorization! posted at Grad Money Matters. Ispf shows us that we need to check for things that are anomalous on our bank statements. If you’re not careful the sneaky bankers may take your money without your consent!
The Investor’s Journal presents The Temptations of the Stock Market posted at The Investor’s Journal. This blogger reminds us that investing shouldn’t be like gambling, but sometimes it really tempts us to act like gamblers.
Magnificent Miscellaneous Money Stories
cashmoneylife presents What Is Your Magic Number? posted at Cash Money Life. This story made me feel warm and fuzzy. It wasn’t scary, but it was certainly magical.
Pinyo B. presents Why Do You Work So Hard? posted at Moolanomy. A story that has floated around the net. Very sweet though.
Kyle James presents What My Dad Taught Me About Money posted at Rather-Be-Shopping.com Blog. I think I would get along with Kyle’s dad.
Lazy Man presents My experience as a member of CNBC’s Fast Money live audience - Part 1 posted at Lazy Man and Money. I must say, Lazy Man seems to be enjoying his unemployment.
This concludes the 32nd edition of Carnival of Money Stories. Please submit your story next week if it wasn’t included in this edition! Have a safe and delicious Halloween tomorrow everyone!
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Thanks for including me in this week’s carnival, and a big thanks for choosing me as an editor’s pick!
Thanks for having me in this edition. There’s alot of quality articles in this carnival.
Thanks for including my post! I agree that Eric (A Penny Closer) had a great post - well deserving of an editor’s pick. A lot of good stuff in this carnival, and you did a nice job of organizing it!
Thanks for including my article, and for the kind words.
There are a lot of great submissions this week.
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Thank you for hosting. Great work!
Thanks for hosting, great work!
What is your stance on saving for retirement vs saving for house? I’ve been reading some advice that says only save for house first (putting into high-yield savings account) and save for retirement once you have a house. Other advice says always save 10% of gross income to retirement even when you’re saving for a house.
Thanks for hosting and including our post; great carnival!
Great job with the carnival! I loved the theme - finance can be scary! And thank you very much for featuring my article!
Thanks everyone for your comments! Thank you for submitting all these great stories!
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Thanks so much for including my article EMOTIONS GOT THE BEST OF US AT THE PICTURE PEOPLE!
glad to see so many comments, keep up the good works!
Thanks for doing such a wonderful job of hosting the carnival. I’ve linked back to your carnival here:
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(sorry it took me awhile… hosting the PF carnival this week kept me busy!)
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