Carnival Chaos

Here's the weekly rundown on what's going on with Can I Get Rich On A Salary, personal-finance blog carnivals, and the universe as we know it—hopefully with some useful reading along the way.

[Editor's Note: In case you are not familiar with blog carnivals, a blog carnival is a multi-blog event in which a number of bloggers aggregate their articles within a certain theme or subject area into one post. The "host" of the carnival writes up the post on his or her blog and includes links to the various articles. Hopefully, this helps readers as they get a "one stop shop" of articles. I post a weekly recap of the blog carnivals in which I have participated—and try also to cull out a few articles that I'd like to share with you here.]

Carnival of Personal Finance:

Squawkfox hosted Carnival of Personal Finance: City Slickers Edition, on August 4. Here are some selected excerpts:

Money Answer Guy, a newer blogger, shares the humble secrets to his financial success in How I Live on Just $600 a Month…

MoneyNing decodes corporate up-selling techniques in Saying Yes to Up-Sell is Saying No To Being Frugal…

My Two Dollars is convincing in Following The Rule Of 10 Percent Is Easy And The Savings Add Up…

Antishay Ventenne lets her feet do the talking in In Defense of Expensive Shoes…

Poorer Than You declares a call to action in "Know Where The Money Goes" Challenge…

Wide Open Wallet shares 5 easy ways to increase your savings…

Personal Finance Analyst considers the games car salesmen play in Read This Before You Buy That Used Car…

Generation X Finance warns of the awful annuity, praises the marvelous employer match, and tells you if your retirement plan "sucks" in How to Tell if You Have a Bad 401k Plan…

Our Fourpence Worth draws a moneyed time line in Our Family Financial History…

Gather Little by Little gets his motor running in 10 least expensive to own vehicles - not one is hybrid…

The Happy Rock deals with a job loss in At a Crossroads, considering a new career…

Check out the rest of the Carnival! My post, Sex or Credit?, appears under "Miscellaneous: Tool Box" (scroll all the way to the bottom!).

Money Hacks Carnival:

Greener Pastures hosted Money Hacks Carnival #24 - The Dog Days of Summer, letting the dogs out on August 6. Here are some selected excerpts:

The Shark Investor offers up How To Profit From Ideas posted at The Shark Investor…

Dividends4Life presents The Perfect Dividend Stock posted at Dividends 4 Life…

glblguy at Gather Little By Little submitted a great guest post from Todd at HarvestingDollars called Improving Your Career Prospects…

Mr Credit Card presents Does Having Too Many Credit Cards Hurt Your Score? posted at Ask Mr Credit Card…

FMF presents When to Hire a Tax Professional posted at Free Money Finance…

The Financial Blogger presents Basics of Estate Planning Part 3 posted at The Financial Blogger…

Check out the rest of the Carnival! My post, The "Smartest Advice I Ever Got" Was…, appears under "Investing."

Other Links

Outside of blog carnivals, I found the following posts at personal-finance blogs interesting, educational, informative, entertaining, or some combination of those—consider checking them out!

• The Best Way I've Found To Truly Save Money (at Prime Time Money)
  
• Best Cash Back Credit Cards: Your Rewards For Spending (at The Digerati Life)
  

Other Mentions

Here are some other mentions of Can I Get Rich On A Salary, outside of blog carnivals, from the past week or thereabouts.

• My post, Sex or Credit?, was discussed by Karen Datko in the MSN Money "Smart Spending" blog in Credit card debt: Don't ask, don't tell and was one of the "picks for the week" by Silicon Valley Blogger in Women Personal Finance Bloggers At Wise Bread Plus The Carnivals (at The Digerati Life).
  
• My post, I Get Frugal With A Little Help From My…, was mentioned by PT in Guster Edition: PrimeTime QuickHits (at Prime Time Money).
  
• My post, My Personal Finance One Step, Two Step, was mentioned by Andy in Weekly Wrap : housing relief bill outrage & good reads (at Saving to Invest).
  
• Can I Get Rich On A Salary was thanked by FIRE Finance in Top Traffic Generators for FIRE Finance - Jul 2008 (at FIRE Finance).
  

Thanks to all of these great personal-finance blogs for bringing Can I Get Rich On A Salary to the attention of their readers. Please visit their blogs!