Welcome to the 55th edition of The Carnival of Money Stories. It’s that time of the year again. In Vietnam they are celebrating the national holiday of Gio to Hung Vuong, but here in the United States it is time for all of us to hand in our tax forms. I just begrudgingly mailed out my tax forms with payment, but today’s carnival certainly cheered me up. We have nearly 30 great stories about life and money. Enjoy!
Editor’s Choice
Praveen writes that The IRS Are Humans, Too… at My Simple Trading System. Apparently you don’t have to be freaked out when you receive a letter from the IRS.
Will presents Rogue Debt Collectors Illegally Freeze Debtors’ Accounts posted at Your Finish Rich Plan. This is a scary story of debt collectors who would freeze pension statements.
Silicon Valley Blogger tells us I’ve Left My Job! Tying Up The Loose Ends posted at The Digerati Life. I am so jealous!
Booze Tax
Kyle from Amateur Asset Collector gives us Top 4 Money Wasters in Your 20s. It seems like Kyle paid a bit too much taxes on alcohol when he was in his twenties.
Mr. Cheap presents Cross Border Shopping posted at Quest For Four Pillars. This is Mr. Cheap’s story about the tariffs he had to pay on hard liquor. That will teach him to be a cheap boozehound.
Gas Tax
The rising cost of gas is really cutting into many of our pocketbooks. Here are some stories. about how gas affects people.
MoneyKing presents Ditch That Huge SUV! Blah. Blah ,
Financial Learn presents The Frustration of High Gas Prices posted at Financial Learn.
Business
Mark Butler presents My Big Fat Learning Experience: Vending Machines posted at The Butler Project. We can all learn quite a bit from this story of entrepreneurship.
Career
FFB presents Four Ways I Upgraded Out Of My Raises posted at Free From Broke. More money means more taxes, but it doesn’t have to mean more expenses.
Life. Money. Development. presents The 7 Attributes of Leadership posted at Life. Money. Development.
Credit Cards
FIRE Finance presents UAL Visa Story! posted at FIRE Finance.
Ryan Taylor presents How Much I Make in Cash Back Credit Card Rewards posted at Millionaire Money Habits.
Hank presents The age old question: How many credit cards should I have? posted at My Investing Blog.
Debt
Here are two stories about snowflaking! You can get rid of debt one flake at a time and these two stories illustrate how you can do it, too.
NtJS presents What is: Debt-Snowflaking? posted at not the jet set.
paidtwice presents How I Started Snowflaking at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already….
Investing
Passive Income Investor presents Cheney Betting Against The Dollar posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS & PASSIVE INCOME.
MoneyNing presents Financial Cost of Being Careless posted at Personal Finance Blog by Money Ning.
The Dough Roller presents Reader Question: Should $15,000 be invested in P2P Lending or in a Better Mortgage? posted at The Dough Roller.
Net Worth
Want to retire early? These stories of people who managed to accumulate a huge net worth at a relatively young age.
PT presents Where Are They Now? Podcast Interview with a Millionaire in the Making: Todd French posted at Prime Time Money.
GBlogger presents Success Stories: $800,000 Net Worth By His Early 40s? posted at CAN I GET RICH ON A SALARY.
Real Estate
Dorian Wales presents How to Successfully Navigate Your Way through Home Renovations: 10 Practical Tips posted at Personal Financier.
Retirement
Amy presents Yale’s Investment Wizard posted at My Daily Dollars.
Saving
FMF presents Do You Buy Things and Never Use Them? posted at Free Money Finance
Other
Chief Family Officer presents Why I Decided Not To Join Revolution MoneyExchange posted at Chief Family Officer. The loose privacy policy prompted Chief Family Officer to not join the new PayPal clone. I haven’t joined either, because I’m just not really into having another financial account.
First Lady Of Poker presents Women Are Naturals At Poker posted at Shopping and Poker Blog. This is an interesting story about why women can beat men at poker.
The Financial Blogger presents We Are Living In A Good Country.
Raymond presents U-Haul Rental Trucks Suck But They Are The Cheapest Around posted at Money Blue Book.
Jeremy Zongker presents All I Really Needed to Know About Managing Money I Learned From Music posted at Debt Advice.
Madison presents Applying the Five Fundamentals of Financial Success posted at My Dollar Plan.
That is all for this edition of the Carnival of Money Stories. Thank you all for participating and a link back to the carnival is always appreciated. If you have more stories you can always submit it to the next carnival which is being held at Can I Get Rich on a Salary. This is a relatively new blog that is very well written. Now if you haven’t already, go out and file your taxes!
Photo Credit: Paul Keleher
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It is the debt consolidation loans that have brought a state of global debt upon all of us. Deals like cheap car insurance, interest free loans and non-authorized grants have brought this day. People need to learn to use their free business cards properly and resist the temptation to look at all the homes for sale.
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20 comments ↓
Thanks for making my article on debt collectors an Editor’s Choice!
This is my first time participating in the Carnival Of Money Stories. I will link back on my blog and write about my favorites as soon as I’ve read all the articles…
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Great work, as always, as carnival host — thanks for the inclusion of my post and for the nice shout-out at the end!
Thanks for hosting.
Mike
Thank you for hosting and including my article! I hear what you’re saying about yet another account – simplicity is where it’s at
Thanks for putting together the carnival and including my post!
I look forward to reading many of these. Great list.
I wanted to forward you to this article about the rising cost of gas versus the rising cost of gasoline and the fact that while gasoline quality hasn’t changed (and actually gotten better) in the last 20+ years, education has not gotten better (gotten worse in many cases).
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/04/and-you-thought-gas-prices-were-high.html
First time visitor to the Carnival of Money Stories here, I really enjoyed the stories.
Thanks
Thanks for hosting and adding my post!
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