Carnival of Everything Finance

By MoneyBlueBook

Well it looks like the Carnival of Everything Finance is up and they included our article on The Best Reward Credit Cards.

A carnival is a type of blog event where different blogs get together to share and post articles on a particular topic. Usually there is one blog that will organize and host the event by aggregating the submitted articles and publishing them on his or her blog. As the host blog changes, the carnival will travel and appear on a different blog each time.

This was my first article submitted to a carnival but I hope to participate even more in the future. I encourage you to visit the host sites to learn more about various interesting finance related topics.

By MoneyBlueBook

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I'm a big believer in using the right combination of cash rebate and credit card offers to maximize one's purchasing potential. In the search for the best travel rewards credit card, I've noticed that some people opt for airline specific cards. However, these types of cards tend to offer unimpressive deals. Not only do they offer higher interest rates and annual fees, but their redemption options are also much more limited.

Review - Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express

I'm a big fan of credit card reward plans that offer versatility such as Citibank's ThankYou Network, which I use to earn points redeemable for gift cards and air travel. However, my favorite stand alone travel rewards card is the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express. It has been referred to as the Swiss army knife of travel rewards cards and deservedly so...

By MoneyBlueBook

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By MoneyBlueBook

On the heals of my last post about the Mega Millions jackpot, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I won something. I've been notified by the folks over at Wise Bread that I'm the winner of their weekly "Ask the Reader" drawing. My prize, a $25 Amazon Gift Certificate!

I wish I could say that my comment entry was chosen from a large competitive pool of reader comments and that mine was selected as the best, but alas, it was a completely random drawing. But you can still read my comment entry if you'd like.

By MoneyBlueBook

Okay, not really. In fact I didn't even play this time around. Come to think of it, I've only played the lottery twice in my life before. I'm writing in response to today's lottery news announcement that four winning tickets were sold for the estimated $330 million Mega Millions jackpot, one each in Maryland, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia. After taking almost half of it out for taxes and splitting the pot four ways, that's barely $50 million apiece. Mere chump change. :)

My Powerball Tickets

I remember the last time I bought a lottery ticket a few months ago - it was a Powerball ticket and it was when the Powerball jackpot had ballooned to a ridiculously high amount. Since Powerball wasn't sold in my state, I had to drive across the border into a neighboring state to snag one. After looking around, I finally found a gas station that sold Powerball tickets. My greedy and overeager brain sprung into action. Why buy one ticket when I can quintuple (five times) my chances by buying five! Delighted at my own ingeniousness and completely oblivious to my faulty mathematical logic, two minutes later I was walking out of the gas station with a potential winning ticket in my hand. On my drive home I started thinking about what I'd do with the money if I won, and then I started to get really excited. New house perhaps, how about 2? A new car maybe, get 2 as well. Never having to work again

By MoneyBlueBook

I just installed my Feedburner code to see how many people have actually subscribed to my new baby blog since I started not too long ago. For those of you beginner types who don't know what Feedburneris, it's one of the more popular feed reading applications out there. It allows you to pull news and postings from multiple sources into one location so you don't have to manually visit every web or blog site. Of course, it would still be very nice if you came by the site manually! :)

Time to Say Hello

When I looked at the number of people that have already subscribed to my site's feed, I was quite astonished to see a number greater than zero. Of course, my number is still humorously low, but I thought it would be nill since I haven't begun promoting it yet. The prevailing wisdom is that if you want your blog to take off in subscriber-ship, you need to increase your community participation by posting comments on other people's blogs and making yourself known to the blogging community. I haven't gotten around to it just yet but it's high up on my to do list. I just moved into this domain months ago and I'm still busy setting up the site and getting into my blogging groove.

But I will definitely be doing that in the near future. Right now, I am just trying to focus on writing my regular entries. I love writing and discussing