Carnival of Money Stories

Welcome to the 11th edition of Carnival of Money Stories. For this edition of the carnival, we received a total of 25 submissions in the categories such as Frugal, Money, Real estate, Credit card, and Blogging. Among the submissions, I found the following stories particularly interesting:

• A frugality cheat sheet from The Frugalist at Frugalist that contains 147 tips to live healthier, happier, greener and better
• Ellesse at Goal Setting College has 5 powerful steps to acquire a wealthy mindset
• Tushar at Life of a Resident Alien shoppes at Costco in the frugal way

And here are the rest of the article submitted to this week’s carnival.

Frugal

Tushar at Life of a Resident Alien as some easy ways to cut your energy bill

Matthew Paulson at Getting Green has some inexpensive first date ideas

Kevin Surbaugh at Becoming & Staying Debt Free lists 33 ideas for dating frugally

Money

Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life says people only need 3 reasons to go bankrupt

Sunny at Dandelions and Daydreams argues why broke and in debt is normal

Michael Fowke at Money is the way has an interesting idea: Make money while you sleep

WBL at Wealth Building Lessons tells us how to profit from inflation and dollar devaluation

Moorea at Queercents presents sleeping with money: eating with “class”

FIRE Finance at FIRE Finance tells the story of $100 online checking account bonus from Bank of America

Real estate

Steve Leung at Silicon Valley Real Estate Blog tells us how home buyers and sellers get trapped in straw scams

FMF at Free Money Finance presents The Mortgage Mess: In the Eyes of an Account Executive

Alvaro Fernandez at Brain Fitness talks about trading psychology and trader performance

Credit card

Colin at The Truth About Credit Cards tells you what you can do after your credit card application has been denied

Mr Credit Card at Ask Mr Credit Card takes the American Express Platinum domestic companion ticket test

Blogging

Edithyeung at Edith Yeung shows 53 ways to make money on the internet

Robinson Go of Good Blog Advice offers 8 shrewd ways to optimize Google AdSense

Others

Mbhunter at mbhunter rebuffs a travel voucher ans says “C’mon, give me something good”

M. Butler at Personal Finance Advice gives 10 reasons to ditch his car

Nina at Queercents asks ten money questions for Rebecca Walker

Therapydoc at Everyone Needs Therapy presents And Another Thing: British Air and Behavior Mod

Finally, be sure to check out the next edition of Carnival of Money Stories at Getting Green on May 28, 2007.