147th Carnival Of Personal Finance
The 147th Carnival of Personal Finance has been published this week over at MoneyNing.com
Well done and thanks to David who has published it this week. For those who don’t know what a blog carnival is – it is a collection of links to, and information about, articles published previously on individual blogs by all the contributors to the carnival. Did that make sense? I hope so. Anyway, no worries. Just be aware that if you visit the carnival blog page you will see links and brief details about a host of excellent articles about all aspects of personal finance. Most of the blogs are American but usually the principles of personal finance are the same even though the details are sometimes a little different.
I have a contribution on there which was my article about investing in your children’s education but there are a lot of others on there and I will mention some of my favourites…
From TheHonestDollar we have an article about inflation. A subject that must concern us all in these current rather confusing, times. Nobody really knows but being prepared for inflation is a sensible step and we are given aheap of suggestions for reducing the cost of living.
TheMoneyKings gives us some suggestions on how we can avoid wasting money on exercise equipment and gym memberships we may never use. I suspect that the whole business model of Gyms revolves around the fact that maybe half the members will hardly ever show up and expect to use the facilities after the first few weeks. We don’t believe in wasting money like that here at the moneywell so we exercise by typing at the keyboard. I have wondered if it is possible to type whilst on an exercise bike though I haven’t actually tried it yet.
ManagingPersonalFinance argues that we should start fighting back against the banks and their persuasive credit card offers. There are hundreds of thousands of people who have been convinced that they were more important because they have particular credit card and they have been encouraged to think there are no problems if they make use of them. This has led untold numbers of people into difficult financial situations. I’m all for fighting back against the banks. A bit more honesty and less greed from them might have prevented the current credit crunch which is continuing to cause problems around the world. The more people are aware of what they are getting into with credit cards the better things will be for consumers.
So, there you have it. A few highlights from the carnival but I do suggest you pop over and have a look for yourself. There may be many of the other articles that will be of interest to you.
