Carnivals - Carnival Of Personal Finance #74 Takes Birth At A Geek's World!

A Geek'sWorld has hosted Carnival of Personal Finance #74. By Jove! It is such a huge carnival with 71 posts from the personal finance blogosphere. These carnivals seem to be getting bigger each week. That is fun since we get to learn new things and discover new blogs.

Our post Pearls from Jellyfish!!! was published at this Carnival. It presents a company named Jellyfish which has introduced the superb Smack of the Day which is a great way to do reverse auctions. The savings are huge and we are going to use this site for our holiday shopping. Late last night we read the Carnival. Here are our list of favorite posts (with the host's on line summary):

• Pearls from Jellyfish!!!
• FIREFinance presents a company named Jellyfish, its concept of reverse auctions and how it saves shopping dollars.
• Speed Kills
  • John of Rebuilding Eden presents a life lesson learned from an old hard drive manufactuer.
• Are you forgetting about YOU?
  • Robert of Mac's Money Blog reminds us that it is okay to splurge a little on ourselves now even as we seek to build our fortunes.
• Do You Need A Financial Checkup?
  • Ben of Money Smart Life
• Open Enrollment, Part 1: Health Care
  • Finance Buff of The Finance Buff takes a look at choices that may be available to you during your companies Open Enrollemnt benefits period.
• Investor Returns Trail Regular Returns
  • GTE of Getting To Enough gives us an article on why the returns investors are getting don't match the returns reported by mutual funds.
• Of Black Holes And Insurance Claims
  • The Silicon Valley Blogger of The Digerati Life shares his battles with insurance claims.
• Definition of a COBRA Qualifying Event
  • Jim sneaks another article in from Understand COBRA
• Nationwide Offers RetirAbility CheckSM
  • Paula of Queercents
• Personal Finance 101 - Cash Management
  • Rodger of Success & Personal Development Blog
• Why Trump & Kiyosaki Want Us to Be Rich
  • Michelle of The Small Business Buzz takes a look at the collaborative book from Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki who want us to be rich.
• Thoughts on buying personal disability insurance - makingourway
• Median Net Worths - Are You Ahead or Behind?
  • FMF of Free Money Finance gives you the chance to compare your net worth with others in your age bracket.
• Don't Let Your Kids Get Ahold of Your Checkbook
• Dad of raising4boys.com gives a very heart warming picture about the spontaneous actions of his four boys with his checkbook.
  
• Black Friday - Tricks To Outsmart The Competition
  • Jeffrey of Personal Finance Advice
• Cash Management: Pay Down Your Mortgage or Not?
  • Frugal at My 1st Million At 33
• Ask for a Pay Raise Discussion Instead of Demanding a Raise
  • Pete of My Financial Awareness tells us why asking for a pay discussion is much better than demanding a raise.
• A Promising Project from Gaming's Most Legendary Entrepreneur
  • Kevin at Value Blogger takes a look at a new restaurant company from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell.
• Secrets and Myths About Salary Your Employer Doesn't Want You to Know
  • Flexo of Consumerism Commentary shares with us some secrets and myths to be prepared for the next time you discuss a raise.
• Your Credit Report and FICO Credit Score. Good Credit Rating Makes Buying a Home Possible
  • Surfer Sam of Surfer Sam and Friends talks about your FICO score and what it does for you.

Hope you had a great time going through our favorites. But please do check out the Carnival to see how it helps enhance your knowledge about personal finance. We thank our host Geek'sWorld for doing such a superb job of hosting, our fellow bloggers for coming up with the posts and our audience for visiting the show. We hope our readers have benefited immensely from this huge carnival.

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