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Welcome to the Carnival of Money Stories #67!  This week we have sixteen great stories full of insights,inspiration,triumph, and tragedy.  Read on to be titillated and entertained!

Editor’s Pick of the Week - Silicon Valley Blogger tells the story of her friends’ ill fated real estate purchase in Bad Investment? Losing The Million Dollar House, Literally posted at The Digerati Life. This story is a must read.

Real Estate Stories

Dean Paley presents Mortgage Update #2 posted at Personal Money Tips. It seems pretty simple to negotiate your mortgage terms with the banks these days.

FMF tells of Five Signs that a Property Might be Ripe for a Lowball Bid posted at Free Money Finance. When I do buy a house, I will make sure to make a lowball offer. There is just no point in paying sticker price for anything.

Diseases and Money

Kelly from Almost Frugal tells us how she is Dealing with a Chronic Condition at Almost Frugal. When you have a chronic disease, money management is even more important.

GBlogger presents Success Stories: Age 49, Beating Back Brain Cancer, and Beating the Market to the Tune of $3,000,000 posted at CAN I GET RICH ON A SALARY. This is an inspirational story about a guy that managed to invest well despite the debilitating effects of brain cancer.

Debt & Credit Stories

Mr Credit Card presents Should you pay for Credit Building Credit Cards? posted at Ask Mr Credit Card. Is it worth it to get a crappy credit card to build your credit score? Mr Credit Card tells us his experience.

paidtwice presents Absentminded Eating and Absentminded Spending | I’ve Paid For This Twice Already… posted at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already….

Brooke presents A Bad Week (or better; A Bad Month!) posted at Dollar Frugal. In this story Brooke outlines how much she spent this month in various things. She has been bad.

Ryan Suenaga presents (Not So) Stupid Money Tricks: Credit Cards at a Convenience Store posted at Uncommon Cents. This is a tip on how to get 5% back on gift card purchases through credit cards.

Career Stories

Jim presents Don’t Let Fear Make Decisions posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity. Jim reflects on his decision to become a professional blogger.

The Financial Blogger writes about his new job in I Got A Small Raise. But I lost Everything In The End posted at The Financial Blogger. He is trying to make more income so that his wife can stay home without worrying about finances.

Other Stories

Dorian Wales tells us how to Teach Your Kids Basic Finance and Economics with Monopoly – 11 Valuable Lessons posted at The Personal Financier. Well, Monopoly isn’t really my favorite boardgame because there is too much luck involved, but this is a good post about it.

Todd tells us that his neighbors are having Garage Sales for Gas Money at HarvestingDollars. Hip hip hooray for Todd’s neighbor I guess.

Tip Diva presents Tip Diva | Top Ten Tips – If Your Wallet Is Stolen posted at Tip Diva.  I am sorry you were victimized Tip Diva!

vh presents Estate Sales: The Canary in the Mine? posted at Funny about Money. Estate sales are pretty awesome for furniture, and that ottoman vh got is quite delicious.

Money Monk and MoneyNing had very similar stories about living below your means. See Having an income sufficient for your basic needs and comforts posted at Moneymonk and Our Thinking of Money Matters is Way Too Complicated posted at Money Ning.

That is all for this week!  Next week the carnival will make a stop at Funny About Money so get your submissions in now!

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I am pretty lazy in submitting my articles to carnivals, but I did do a few last week. Here they are:

Christian Carnival at Fish and Cans – This is actually a pretty good carnival that I never participated in before. Better late than never.

Carnival of Money Stories at My Good Cents -Some great stories here. I liked this one about 10 lessons a dad taught his kid.

Carnival of Real Estate at Trulia Blog – I was picked as a sparkling pick of the week for my article about the deadbeat politicians. It’s pretty funny, but I used to send my scathing real estate related articles to this carnival and they always rejected it, but I guess the rosy sentiment towards real estate has changed.

Carnival of the Insanities at Doctor Sanity – This carnival always has some funny stuff. I liked #13, which linked to a story that said liberal (and obviously juvenile) San Franciscans are trying to name a waste management plant after President Bush. The stupidity of this  is that the job of waste management plants is to clean up waste and toxic stuff, so if they want to say that President Bush is crappy by donning his name on this plant, they deserve a big fat FAIL on their heads like the folks at The Fail Blog.

Another announcement is that I will be hosting The Carnival of Money Stories once again next Tuesday! I should have put up a post earlier but I totally forgot. Anyway, feel free to submit your entries here.

Finally, I wrote an article about Patriotism and Personal Finance on Wise Bread last night. I really enjoyed writing this article so I hope you enjoy reading it, too.

Have a great holiday everyone! Don’t eat too much and drive safely!

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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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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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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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