The 2nd Anniversary Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance is up over at Get Rich Slowly. Even if you’re not a fan of blog carnivals, I would highly recommend checking this one out. It’s a best-of PF blogging extravaganza. J.D. has categorized the posts, so it’s easy to skip past any topics that don’t interest you.
A few of my favorites:
Dori and Paul talk about turning off the TV at One Year Exit Plan. I don’t plan to put my TVs in a closet anytime soon, but I do enjoy living with very little TV. My co-workers, who spend 30-45 minutes every morning discussing what was on TV last night, don’t understand why I don’t watch TV, or what I do instead. I just smile.
Adventures in Money Making offers up some excellent pointers on real estate investing. As we get closer to the time when we plan to take the plunge into rental properties, I’ll be sure to come back to this post.
My Money and My Life discusses voluntary simplicity and offers up some advice on how to make the necessary changes.
Blunt Money introduces the concept of a savings snowball (the opposite of the debt snowball). He shows how to set it up, and throws out a great incentive - savings snowballs can work faster than debt snowballs, due to the magic of compound interest.
Trent at The Simple Dollar presents a great list of helpful career tips. No matter where you are in your career — even if you’re still in school — this is excellent solid advice.
An excellent food-for-thought post is Atheists Should Tithe. Plonkee discusses how donating 10% of your income can go a long way toward a good cause: “…if nothing is going to get done unless somebody does something about it, you’d better start doing it yourself or nobody will.”
Paul at Extreme Perspective talks about why he thinks we are in the middle of the greatest economy ever. This post is a few months old, and I’d be curious to see if his feelings have changed since the latest personal savings rates numbers were released.
Advanced PF raises questions about medical tourism. I haven’t heard this term before, but an acquaintance of mine traveled overseas for surgery with excellent results. She did it for financial reasons, but also did her homework - the doctor she saw was one of the best in the business.
Finally, the Family Finance Blog points out the importance of knowing yourself when it comes to budgeting and spending. My favorite part of this article is the closing line: “if there are ways you can manage your money to make you happier rather than wealthier, do it.”
There are a number of other fabulous posts, including our own iLuddite. Do yourself a favor, and go check it out.
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Glad you liked my submission.
Its interesting to see that we picked out some of the same posts as highlights.
@ plonkee: I loved your post, it certainly got my attention as I’m an atheist, and it really got me thinking very heretical thoughts.
I’ll never deny being a right cynical bitch most days, but the little bit of your article that really got my attention was the concept in a comment that if we americans just gave 1% of our money to charity, african poverty would be erradicated. And it got me thinking about the complexities of african economics as I know them, and came to the conclusion that we’d have a bunch of poor africans who now had a little bit of cash now. it wouldn’t fix anything, and probably aggrivate inflation. Until folks in africa can come up with solutions to their massive lack of infrastructure, throwing money at the problem with fix exactly nothing.
And that got me thinking… what does charity accomplish? People have been giving to charity since the beginning of time, but charities never seem to become obsolete, do they? They never seem to fix the problem they’re addressing. Charities seem to exist mostly to treat symptoms and perpetuate themselves. So I ask the universe, what good does charity actually do?
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