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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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The current Carnival of Money Stories is up at The Financial Blogger.  This wonderful carnival will make a stop at The Baglady on Tax Day!  Here are some of the highlights from today’s edition.

Working At Home To Build Passive Blog Income And Giving Up Full Time Job Pay - Money Blue Book - A story about giving up a job as a tax attorney to blog.

Whoring Out Your Spouse For Fun and Profit -  This is a funny post about pimping out your hubby or wifey.

Success Stories: 6th-Grade Teacher Worth $500,000 - I’ve been reading Can I Get Rich on a Salary lately and he finds a lot of these millionaire next door stories.

I hope I will get some fun stuff to read next week!  Meanwhile, stick around  to enter the last minute TaxCut contest and submit your entries to the carnival!

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Yup, I finally got picked to host The Carnival of Personal Finance by Flexo! The current carnival is going on at Broke Grad Student and includes my article on sweepstaking. The two carnivals I have hosted in the past are Carnival of Money Stories and Carnival of Debt Reduction. However, The Carnival of Personal Finance would be the largest carnival I will ever host! I hope I don’t disappoint all of you. Anyway, if you want to be included, send over your best post here. I will be reading the new posts soon enough.

In other blog related news, my article about horrible financial products on Wise Bread was picked up by Lifehacker! I actually really liked this article so I am glad a lot of others liked it too. Additionally, my article about not loaning people money has 95 diggs right now! Though, I’m not sure if it will make it to the front page. Digg is pretty weird these days because I saw a lame picture with 44 diggs making it to the front page while a good article about foods took 260+ diggs. It’s pretty unjust in many cases.

Hope you are having a nice Monday, I am thinking of translating more of my Dad’s epic story later.

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Well, The Baglady was in quite a few carnivals the past two weeks, and here they are in no particular order:

Festival of Frugality — Kyle mentioned me as an editor’s pick! Thanks Kyle!

Carnival of Personal Finance

Personal Finance Money Tips

Carnival of Money Stories

All Women Blogging Carnival

Happiness Carnival

How to Solve Money Worries

Carnival of Debt Reduction

Carnival of Family Life

Carnival of Cities

Carnival of Insanities

Common Sense Wealth Carnival

Here are a few of my favorite stories from the past couple weeks:

Ben Stein writes about his clueless friends who don’t know how to work. I thought it was an extremely funny article.

Blownmortgage shows us the “best borrower ever”, and why even conforming mortgages could fail. This is a must read, and it was very eye opening to me because I never thought that a “prime” borrower could also be living on the edge.

The Retirement Hobo writes about thanking his network, and I’m in the story!! yeah!!

Millionaire Mommy spills the secrets to her investment portfolio. I read the strategy thoroughly and it actually makes a lot of sense and is easy to implement. I took a free trial of the NoLoad FundX newsletter and it turns out I already own some of the funds in the list and they are definitely the better performing funds in my portfolio. I have held these funds for a while though, and I don’t trade very often.

Anyway, I’m coming upon my 100th post of this blog! I am planning a Chinese edition of the blog to improve my Chinese writing skills, and we’ll see how that goes!

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This week there were some great carnivals as usual. First there is the All Women Blogging Carnival at Red Sultana where my article about selling eggs was included. Being the nerd I am I really liked this article about bird migration.

Next there is The Carnival of Personal Finance #126. In this carnival I wrote about speed interviewing. A couple articles I would like to highlight is Scrabble and Personal Finance: 8 Lessons from Tiles at Blueprint for Financial Propsperity and Soup Parrish’s Ground Rules for his retirement at age 24. I really love Scrabble and I love how Jim put together his experiences in a game into lessons for personal finance. Soup Parrish is a friend of mine and he is trying an interesting experiment in retiring on $75,000 in San Francisco. I would like to see how he does.  I have told him that realistically he can’t retire on $75,000 here in the Bay Area, but he has a set of rules that lets him generate other income too.  Check out his blog at The Retirement Hobo.

Finally, there is the Carnival of Money Stories at Being Frugal. I like Lynnae’s blog a lot and this week my article about Asian parents  has been included.  I also really liked this story about gifts for children by Betsy Teutsch.  It’s pretty true that kids don’t like presents like stocks and bonds because they can’t really play with it.

That’s all for this week!

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