Carnival of Debt Management #30

Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers! The 30th edition of the Carnival of Debt Management is up. We have selected 26 posts for this edition. Here’s the list:

Ryan Healy presents The 3 Most Insidious Causes of Debt posted at Debt Reduction Formula.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Me Gamble? No Dice! posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Tim presents HECM or HELOC? A Tool to Help You Decide posted at Reverse Mortgage Information.

Thomas Humes presents Simple Habits That Lead To Wealth posted at Wealth Building World. Wealth creation is a combination of rules and habits. Here’s the number one rule, if you want to be wealthy, its not how much money you earn, its not how many cars you drive, it is how much you can save and invest and that’s the key.

Linsey Knerl presents Confessions of a Former Payday Loan Junkie | Wise Bread posted at Wise Bread.

Bonnie Krueger presents Is It Wise To Consolidate Student Loans? posted at Student Loan Consolidation Programs.

Roshawn Watson presents The Wealthy Create Luck posted at Watson Inc. It is very convenient to say that the people who do well are lucky, but many wealthy and successful people CREATE their luck. Regardless of what you do or what you learn, without the right mindset coupled with the appropriate actions, luck alone will not get you there. Rather, it is those who excel in problem-solving who have the Midas touch.

Sunny presents Freezer cookin’ and pantry eatin’ posted at Dandelions and Daydreams. Sunny says, “I have started a cooking challenge to save money, and reduce the stock in my pantry. I am eating out of my freezer/pantry for as long as I can. This is the introductory post to my freezer/pantry challenge.”

Karyn Kudrna presents Loan and Debt Elimination Scams posted at Shop Smart Loans. There are many loan and debt eliminations scams out there. This article outlines some of the more common scams and highlights what consumers should be aware of.

Michael Bass presents How to settle your debts on your own posted at Debt Prison. It is true that debt settlement companies provide a service. There are two points that should be made in regards to why debt settlement companies are unnecessary. The first point is that you can perform the exact same functions that they do. This article is about how to settle your debts on your own.

Prince of Thrift presents How to Become a Stress-Free Shopper posted at Becoming & Staying Debt Free. Have you ever gone into a store with the intention of only buying one (1) item and you walked out with 5 bags full of stuff?

Silicon Valley Blogger presents The Causes and Consequences of the Subprime Mortgage Financial Crisis posted at The Digerati Life. Find out more about how the housing boom unraveled and the consequences of the subprime mortgage collapse.

Jeremy Wong presents Top Ten Ways To Save Credit Card Interest and Fees posted at Personal Finance Guide | FinanceMind. With the holiday season just round the corner, many of us would be putting gifts and celebration expenses on credit cards. It is time to review the top 10 ways to reduce credit card expense.

Ryan Lynch presents Disputing credit report inaccuracies posted at The Better Credit Score Blog. Get tutorial for disputing credit report inaccuracies.

James presents Critical Questions about Payday Loans posted at Payday Loan Cheap Skate. Questions one must ask before getting a payday loan.

JvW presents All Fired Up to Keep Paying Down posted at The Good Life on a Budget. JvW says, “How I purged old credit card receipts and used that to motivate me.”

The Skilled Investor presents Where?s Waldo? - The illusion of superior professional mutual fund manager performance. posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog. The effort to find those few supposedly superior money managers willing to sell their services sufficiently cheaply is a costly, time consuming, and futile, “Where’s Waldo?,” searching exercise for the individual investor. Many money managers will claim to be superior and few or none actually will be.

Jason Elder presents Five Top Alternatives To Personal Bankruptcy posted at A Bankruptcy Lawyer’s Blog. If you are considering filing for personal bankruptcy, stop, think and consider the following.

Allen Taylor presents Business Investment Strategies That Work Every Time posted at Investing World Today. The secret to investment success is the consistent application of time-proven strategies, not the use of complex, hard-to-understand investment vehicles created by investment bankers out to take your money!

Pfodyssey presents Make Your Finances Six Sigma! posted at My Personal Finance Odyssey. Improve your personal finance process.

Fred Black presents Banks + Debt = Evil posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..

Michael Chu presents Get Paid To Use MySpace posted at Knighty Night’s Talk. Get paid just for using a social network like myspace and they also have a referral program too. Think of the potential.

KCLau presents How to Minimize the Upfront Service Charge in Unit Trust Investment posted at KCLau’s Money Tips. Investment always requires transaction cost. The typical cost in unit trust investment is the upfront service charges (paid to the agent), management fees (paid to the fund managers), and trustee fees (paid to the trust corporation). These costs are inevitable. But when there is a problem, there is always a few strategies to minimize the damage.

Danogo.com presents See How Easily You Can Add Google Apps like Email, Chat and Microsoft Office Style Programs to Your Own Website posted at Danogo.com - Discover. Inspiring . Media. Give your personal finances a jumpstart with microsoft excel style programs you can use on the web for free.

The Investor presents How talking about money is like French kissing posted at Monevator.com. Talking about money is nothing to be ashamed of, and vital if you’re to overcome your financial worries with your partner onside.

Christine presents The Dollar Drops Again! How the Exchange Rate Affects European Travel. posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France. Thinking about how you spend before you travel so you don’t need to think about how you spent once you’ve returned home.

That concludes this edition. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on December 01, 2007. Submit your blog articles using our Blog Carnival Submission Form.

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