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OkDork offers a Gmail happy Hack to help you go through a rough day
Money, Matter, and More Musings shows us how making the RIGHT turns can actually save you money and the environment
plonkee money knows how to grow emergency savings account
Money Smart Life has a question for you: Should you use your emergency fund to [...]

I’d like to make this, Around the PF Blogosphere, a regular post, if not daily, on interesting articles I found in the personal finance community. Here’s the first batch. Enjoy!

Wise Bread has a list of 101 fantastic freebies for your PC, loaded with goodies.
Free Money Finance talks about how to invest on a small [...]

This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is held at Lazy Man and Money, and my article, How to Invest in 4-Week T-Bills: The Complete Process, participated. Among the 50 submissions to the Carnival, I found the following quite entertaining:

Why Hoarding Airline Miles is a Fools Game by The Travelin’ Man at Stuff You Outta Know
The [...]

Welcome to the 91st edition of Carnival of Personal Finance!
In the past week, we have received a total of 77 submissions to the Carnival and many of them are articles with high quality. When I went through all the posts, I identified six of them as Editor’s Choices. My criteria of making the selection [...]

Trent at The Simple Dollar is hosting the 86th edition of Carnival of Personal Finance. Among the long list of submissions, I found the following entries (or the comments of the entry) quite entertaining:

Making The Financial Sacrifice To Get What You Want By My Two Dollars
12 Simple Ways To Save Money On Utilities (And The [...]

is up at FiveCentNickel and here are my picks :

Mutual Funds 101 by Money Walk
Research – Safekeeping of Records by FIRE Finance
De-LIGHT-ful Savings by Pro Bargain Hunter
Get your money for nothing, your checks for free by Wise Bread (speaking of free money, I myself happen to be a big fan as well)
The Great Big [...]

and among the long list of articles, I found the following interesting:

Do you need life insurance? By Living Almost Large
Home Owner’s Insurance and Credit Scores By FrugalBabe
Retirement Planning Made Easy(ier) By Taking Control Over Money
Socially Responsible Investing/Socially Conscious Finances: Tough Questions By Money and Values
Why Dave Ramsey’s “Drive Free” Theory May Be Flawed OR Why [...]

Welcome to The Carnival of Investing of January 15, 2007, the day that we commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Before I begin the representation of the Carnival, I’d like to cite the following from Dr. King’s speech on August 28, 1963:
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties [...]

The next edition of Carnival of Investing will be held at The Sun’s Financial Diary on January 15th, 2007 (Binary Dollar is hosting the current edition). I hereby call all investors around the blogosphere for participation. This call is to solicit your posts on all aspects of investing such as your investment strategies, your portfolio [...]

J.D at Get Rich Slowly is hosting the 82nd edition of Carnival of Personal Finance. Not just that the articles are great (and there are many of them), J.D’s personal touch on the Carnival, financial superheros from comic books, has made the reading more enjoyable. Out of the 92 submissions, I found several are interesting:

Mini-E: [...]