Money Blue Book Weekend Roundup - 6

By MoneyBlueBook

Since it's a lazy weekend afternoon for me, here are some finance and frugality reading material I thought you all might enjoy. There are so many exceptional new and old personal finance bloggers on the web today. I would like to share some of their blogging work with my readers here. During the last few weeks I also participated in numerous blog carnivals that I am finally getting around to linking back to. Yes I know, I can be a big procrastinator sometimes (I suck). Here they are:

Personal Finance Blogger Friends:

• Mrs Micah answers a few Personal Finance and Non Finance Related Questions
• The Digerati Life talks about How To Keep Your Wedding Costs Under Control
• My Money Blog talks about How To Maximize Your Business Mileage Tax Deduction
  
• Might Bargain Hunter talks about Why Frugality Is Less Sexy Than Debt Reduction
• Being Frugal answers questions about How To Eat Healthy On A Budget
  

Carnival of Personal Finance:

• Money Under 30 featured Warren Buffett's Single Most Important Piece of Advice For Stock Market Investors

Carnival Of Debt Reduction:

• Blunt Money featured Pay Off Credit Card Debt With Low Interest Balance Transfers

Carnival of Money Hacks:

• My Investing Blog featured 0% Balance Transfer Credit Cards

Carnival Of Money Stories:

• The Dividend Guy featured Do Credit Cards and Stocks Make Up Your Emergency Fund?
• Bible Money Matters featured Citi Thank You Credit Card Rewards
  

Carnival of Twenty Something Finances:

• Poorer Than You featured College Students
  

By MoneyBlueBook

Here are select blog carnivals and blog festivals I participated in over the last few weeks. Apologies for the delay in getting these out (extra curricular duties have been occupying most of my free time). Other than my own article submissions, there are definitively a lot of good finance and frugality articles in the mix worth reading as well. I've listed the website links where the carnivals were hosted and the articles I've mine that were submitted. At least one was selected as an Editor's Pick. Take a look!

Carnival of Personal Finance

• Alpha Consumer featured How To Make Money From Balance Transfer Credit Cards
• Lazy Man and Money featured Arguments For And Against Using Multiple Reward Credit Cards
• The Happy Rock featured Using Form 1040X To Correct A Tax Mistake or Error
• Gather Little By Little featured The 6 Best Credit Cards According to CNN Money

Carnival Of Debt Reduction

• Broke Grad Student featured How To Get A Free Fico Credit Score

Carnival Of Money Stories

• Free From Broke featured Get Free Extended Service Warranty By Purchasing With A Credit Card

Festival of Frugality

• Sound Money Matters featured One Great Potential Benefit Of Higher Gas Prices - Less Traffic! (Editor's pick)
• Rather Be Shopping featured Always Pay By Credit Card To Protect Against Airline Travel Bankruptcy

By MoneyBlueBook

The last few weeks I participated in several editions of the Carnival of Personal Finance that I would like to mention here. I wish to thank the carnival hosts for organizing and compiling articles to share with readers. I know hosting the carnival is time consuming and I wish to give these personal finance bloggers some recognition:

• Money Ning featured my article on Traditional and Roth IRA Contribution Limits and Income Phase Outs.

• Stock Trading To Go featured my article on Paying Income Tax On Ebay Sales.

• Being Frugal featured my article on Late Night Infomercials Selling Get Rich Scams.

• Four Pillarsfeatured my article on Answers To Common Tax Rebate Questions.

I also participated in the Carnival of Taxes and appreciate the inclusion of my submission:

• Don't Mess With Taxes included my article on Adjusted Gross Income and Modified Adjusted Gross Income.

Finally, I wish to thank April Fool's prankster Flexo for organizing the Festival of Frugality and including my submission:

• Consumerism Commentary included my article on How To Repair Your Car With Used Auto Junkyard Parts.

By MoneyBlueBook

This week I participated in the Carnival of Personal Finance at The BagLady where my article about choosing the right Roth IRA broker was included.

Here are a few other personal finance and frugality articles around the blogosphere that I enjoyed reading this week. Please have a look:

• Paid Twice - shares the unfortunate mindset that she used to have that led to her string of "dumb purchases".

• Moolanomy - provides a very practical list of 40 Alternative Income Ideas and Resources. Most are common-sensical, but those type of money making ideas are usually the easiest and quickest to implement for the average person.

• Cash Money Life - is offering a nice compilation eBook for download based on the pooled online written work of a number of personal finance bloggers. The book contains useful financial commentary, categorized according to different stages in life.

• The Simple Dollar - is running a popular Ask Me Anything segment in which you can ask Trent the PF blogger any question imaginable. Some of the question comments are personal finance based, while others are just plain philosophical or goofy. I submitted a few questions in the comment section but I highly doubt he'll respond to mine - I asked a few pretty controversial ones.

• Free Money Finance - is refereeing a March Madness style matchup of personal finance articles. I didn't submit an entry but you can still go vote for your favorite articles.

• Clever Dude - shares his decision making process in regards
  

By MoneyBlueBook

Let's take a walk around the the personal finance blogosphere. Here are a few blog posts that I found interesting and worth reading during the last few weeks. Feel free to check them out:

• Frugal For Life shares a tragic story involving love and finance with gold diggers C.C. and Bill.
• Money Smart Life shares a few tips about finding deals during the shopping off season.
• Single Guy Money hands over the arduous task of ironing his shirt and pants to his female friend in a modern day example of bartering. Personally, I think he should stick with buying only wrinkle free clothing like I do.
• Mrs. Micah shares her thoughts on living in the ghetto. I can relate to her ghetto housing experiences as I used to live in Baltimore City a while back as a student. Drug dealers, trauma helicopters, and gang members were common sights.
• Mighty Bargain Hunter talks about the ramifications of when bargain hunting zeal treads into addiction territory. I knew I was personally pushing the envelope a bit when I would order things online to save a measly 50 cents.
• I'm a big fan of using reward credit cards to maximize purchasing power, but The Digerati Life reveals a list of common ways that people can get themselves into credit card trouble.
• Wise Bread is trying to promote their new personal finance forum and is literally giving away $20 Amazon gift certificates each day to those who participate in the new
  

By MoneyBlueBook

Drum roll please...presenting my very first edition of Money Blue Book's Weekend Roundup, where I showcase some of the interesting personal finance blog articles I've come across during the week and days before. I always appreciate frequent commentators so I will try to make an extra effort to share some of the interesting tips they have to offer. I encourage readers to browse around the blogosphere. There's a lot of good financial, frugality, and investment advice out there!

• One of my favorite personal finance bloggers, My Money Blog, shares some short, easy to understand insights into what the planned federal economic stimulus package will mean for you and I.

• If you're addicted to coffee and think the new Starbucks unlimited refill $1 coffee is a great deal, the Mighty Bargain Hunter will show you why an inexpensive habit is still a habit that deserves to be kicked.

• Money Ning shares how his valiant fiance saved them money by speaking up and standing for what's right regarding a botched wedding fee. He's a lucky man.

• A favorite personal finance blogger of mine, Mrs. Micah discusses practical and realistic ways to view your tax rebate check. She's right - it's not really a windfall since the money was yours all along. The government was just holding onto it for you interest-free.

• If you're into investing in China and the Asian stock market boom as I am, then check out Sun's Financial Diary as he writes about ways to short the recent Chinese