Since both Christmas and New Year’s Day fall on Monday, I’m keeping those weeks carnival-free for the time being.  Any posts that are submitted after the December 18th carnival will be considered for the next available carnival.

If anyone would like to step up to host those weeks, please let me know.

Also, if you want to host after the beginning of the year, please let me know as well!

• Welcome to the Carnival of Debt Reduction Welcome to this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction!  This week we have a bit of an Olympic medal theme.  Four of my favorite posts (gold medals) are at the top, and this week I'm highlighting first a couple of folks who are actively reducing their debt and doing a bang-up......
• Squawkfox has posted the Summer Solstice Carnival of Debt Reduction A big thank-you to Squawkfox for hosting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction. The pictures and words of the beginning of summer are a nice addition to the Carnival! Her three favorites this week: TooSmart recounts a payday loan horror story. Uncommon Cents offers up the basics of debt reduction.......

• Lifehack Monday, August 31, 2009 Well, another week has passed, and I've lost another pound.  Whoopee!  I thought that I'd do better.  It must have been that Sam Adams Light that I drank in celebration of another Yankee victory. Exercise Highlights I decided to mix up my exercise routine this week, and I only......
• Increasing Your Mortgage Payment I wrote previously about how accelerated bi-weekly mortgage payments can pay your mortgage off sooner. In that post I used this example, if you have a $200,000 mortgage, amortized for 25 years @ 5%, and bi-weekly accelerated payments, you would pay $124,095 in interest and will have the mortgage paid......