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Well, I haven’t done a carnival roundup for a while. Today was my last day at my job and this entire week has been quite crazy.

Carnival of Debt Reduction #111 ~ What’s Scarier Than Debt? at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already. My post in this carnival is about not buying things you don’t need.

Carnival of Personal Finance: The Trick or Treat Contest Edition at Millionaire Mommy Next Door. My article in this carnival showcases the strange and crazy bosses I have met.

Carnival of Twenty-Something Finances at My Adventures into the Street. My post in this carnival is about leaving my job.

The Carnival of Family Life included my article on being an only child.

The Baglady hosted Carnival of Money Stories #32 — True Financial Horror Stories! Check out the carnival for some awesome stories from all more than twenty personal finance bloggers.

Finally, the story about my super cheap ex-boyfriend got a 4th wind this week since it was linked on one of the MSN Money Central blogs and then linked by JD over at Get Rich Slowly. My ex-bf wants to say that the part I exaggerated about is the 25 cent spaghetti, and I want to say I didn’t really break up with him because he is cheap.

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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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Heads up everyone! Next week on the eve of Halloween The Carnival of Money Stories will be hosted here at The Baglady!! I expect all of you to submit some awesome stories to entertain me! I’m super excited since it’s the first carnival I am hosting, and hopefully it will be a spectacular carnival!

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In the past week The Baglady’s articles can be found in the following carnivals. The articles included were:

Early Retirement May Not Be Optional for Twenty-Somethings

What Do Women Really Want Men To Spend on Them?

The 5% Goals — How I Reach Larger Goals by Completing Smaller Goals

Discovering Cooperative Living in San Francisco

Is Married Life More Expensive Than Single Life?

Carnival of Personal Finance #121 at Ask Mr. Credit Card – This carnival was written as a presidential candidate debate. It was very creatively hosted. I especially enjoyed Exjackly’s article on How to Live on Mininum Wage. I once saw a show by the same guy who documented eating McDonalds for 30 days and he tried to live on minimum wage with his girlfriend, and his conclusion was that it’s ridiculously hard. He even added his nephew into the experiment so that it seems he and his girlfriend has a child. It was kind of bizarre to watch.

All Women Blogging Carnival at Women Start Your Business Now — The weirdest article in this is about pink guns for girls.

Carnival of Frugality #95 at My Retirement Blog — My favorite article from this carnival was Single Ma’s grocery shopping tips. Single Ma’s blog is always pretty funny and useful.

Carnival of Money, Growth and Happiness at Life Insurance Lowdown — I really liked TupeloKenyon’s article about positive people in this carnival. For the most part I try to be positive around people, but I do get very crazily grumpy when I am PMSing. My husband can definitely attest to this.

Carnival of the Capitalists 4th Anniversary Edition — A lot of these articles were very good. I liked this article by Andy Swan because it reminded me of a Demotivator poster that said “Meetings: because all of us is dumber than one of us”. Mob mentalities are often quite dangerous, and not very wise.

I haven’t had too much time to write lately because I am working on something that’s taking up a lot of my time, and I will write about it later when I am done. Also, my husband got me the game The Phantom Hourglass. It is an awesome game! My coworker said that he’s not getting his daily entertainment from this blog today. Don’t worry, more exciting Baglady musings will be in your future.

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In the past week the Baglady trekked to four carnivals and a very frugal festival and they are presented here in chronological order:

Carnival of Twenty Something Finances at HowISaveMoney — My article about how I reach larger goals is included here. I also thought that this article about protecting cash flow by Roshawn Watson is very useful for young people. We often feel that we are young and invincible, but the truth is that anything could happen and we need to protect ourselves.

All Women Blogging Carnival at Crazy Meezer — My article on the monetary inequities immigrants face in America is in this issue. My absolute favorite article from this bunch is The Galileo Fallacy and The Gadfly Corollary by Greta Christina. It’s quite a funny article about independent thinking. You have to read it to discover what her title means.

Carnival of Everything Finance #4 hosted by Everything Finance — I wrote about how the CPI doesn’t really track cost of living increases a couple weeks back and it’s in this carnival. I thought this article on the difference of regular and premium gas by Moneywalks is interesting. I may just try it out.

The Carnival Of Personal Finance #120 at MyRetirementBlog — My article on the dangers of keeping score with money is at this carnival. I thought all the host’s picks were very good, and additionally I really liked this article about “food-borne affluenza” because the hubby and I really love to eat. I think we can save a lot of money on food but the hubby says that I can’t limit his games AND limit his food because that would be way too extreme. We have been trying to cook more though.

The Festival of Frugality #94 at My Two Dollars — I wrote about video games in this edition of the festival. It’s really the only big entertainment expense the hubby and I have. It does take a lot of time to get your money’s worth from games, though. My top pick from this festival is Kyle’s 10 Frugal Tips You Can Use Right Now, which is also an editor’s pick.

Stay tuned for more exciting musings of The Baglady!

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