Carnivals - MyPersonalFinanceBlog Presents Carnival Of Personal Finance #80

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Carnival of Personal Finance #80 has been unfurled by MyPersonalFinanceBlog. Its a big carnival with 62 posts.

Our post "Tools - FireSafe Your Personal Finance Documents!" was published at this carnival. This post explains the need to protect our important personal finance documents from natural hazards like fire, water and human-made dangers like theft. We request you to take a peek at it since it reveals some real life experiences about the hazards and hardships caused by the above mentioned causes of destruction of our identities and personal finance related documents.

Listed below are our favorites from the Carnival:

• FIREFinance presents: Tools - FireSafe Your Personal Finance Documents!
• Consumerism Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog presents: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Credit Cards, Part 1: The Good
• I’m a Quicken Head presents: How to Incorporate Your PayPal Account into Quicken - A tutorial on how you can set-up a PayPal account in your Quicken file.
• LifeTraining - Online presents: 10 Questions that Determine your Financial Fitness
• Save Money presents: Snowballing Debt A snowballing debt calculator.
• Fivecentnickel.com presents: Become an Amazon.com Price Drop Ninja
• Watch your Wallet presents: Beat the Average Raise
• The Coin Jar: A personal finance blog presents: Personal finance books under my Christmas tree
• My Financial Awareness presents: How a good opportunity can be a snake oil salesman when the intent is to become rich - Why you should go after your dreams for a purpose instead of for the money otherwise you may end up buying snake oil instead of a pot of gold.
• Universe Of Success presents: Law of Tenfold Return
• An English Major’s Money presents: How To Set Goals You Can Achieve
• Free Money Finance presents: How to Make Your Child a Millionaire
• Art Of Money presents: What Happens to Your Web Business if You Die? - Covers succession planning and wills, especially for online workers.
• Balanced Life Center presents: What Would You Do With A Billion Dollars?
• The Money Tortoise presents: What Can A Postage Stamp Teach Us? - This is a short article and table of data showing history of US 1st class postage stamp. By using the postage stamp as a proxy for inflation, you can illustrate a compelling case for a heavier equity allocation in your portfolio especially when you consider today’s longer life expectancies.
• My Two Dollars presents: New Years Resolution: Start an estate plan - just in case.
• Ask Uncle Bill presents: A REALLY Stupid Idea
• GT presents: The Economics of Self-Awareness
• Worldwide Success presents: Ten Good Reasons for Owning a Home - Home ownership is an intrinsic part of the American dream. It is great to be able to walk through the front door and know you are stepping into a house of your own, instead of paying rent to someone else. Owning a house is a reason to be proud, but it is also a great financial move. Your home is probably one of the largest investments you will hold, and over time, it should reward you abundantly.
• Surfer Sam and Friends presents: Stock Investment Fraud Exposed. Swindler Plays the Game Well.
• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity presents: Remember to Update Your Tax Forms & Software
• Don’t Mess with Taxes presents: Extender entry instructions - Happiness at recently-renewed tax breaks will be offset somewhat by complications when you actually file your 1040. Here’s what the IRS says you’ll need to do to claim them.
  

We thank our host MyPersonalFinanceBlog for doing the fantastic yet hard job of hosting this huge carnival. Compliments to fellow bloggers for getting published at this carnival and kudos to the audience for making this carnival a success. This was the last carnival of year 2006. We had a great time publishing and reading The Carnivals of Personal Finance. Hope you enjoyed all the carnivals presented throughout the year.

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