Best of this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance
June 18, 2007For those of you unfamiliar with the term, the Carnival of Personal Finance is a way for bloggers to share their week’s best posts and have it aggregated by a fellow blogger in the community. This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is hosted by J.D. @ Get Rich Slowly and is a special edition in that it marks the two year anniversary of the carnival. Therefore J.D. asked the bloggers to submit what they deemed to be their best post of the last two years.
Since I haven’t been blogging for two years I simply submitted the post that took the most effort and research to write: Interest rates and inflation. This is the first time I have submitted something and I’m very happy that J.D. thought it was good enough to be included.
He included 82 submissions of which the following are my personal favourites (in no particular order):
- Who do you think you are? A post about how your lifestyle and thus spending habits are effected by the social groups you identify with.
- Money isn’t everything and it isn’t you. Probably one of the most important things to bear in mind as you go through life, struggling more or less to keep your finances in order: Life is about happiness, not money.
- How to beat the car dealer at his own game. Insights from someone who has worked as a car salesman for a month.
- What’s a sound financial lifestyle? 17 of the most important bloggers in the personal finance community contribute thoughts to this question. The dominant response: living within one’s financial means.
- Tips for having a successful budget. Very detailed and well written how-to for anyone wanting to get to grips with that dreadful b-word.
- The best place to hide money: Conversation with a burglar. The title says it all. A must read. Part 2 can be found here.
I hope you enjoy the articles as much as I did!
