A big thank-you to Plonkee Money for hosting this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction right on the heels of a trip across the pond.

This week the Carnival is peppered with wit and wisdom from famous brits, such as Keynes, Brummel, and Moss.  He also highlighted four of the posts as “Plonkee’s Picks.”

Thankfully it’s much cheaper to surf over to England than it is to fly there, which I hope you do now!

• Welcome to a windy and rainy Carnival of Debt Reduction We're in hurricane season, and early last week there were five named Atlantic storms on the map:  Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine, and Karina.  Hanna is flying up the east coast of the United States as I'm putting this Carnival together. Thankfully Hanna wasn't much where I was on Saturday but......
• Cash Money Life has posted this week's Carnival Cash Money Life posted the "Making Progress Edition" of the Carnival of Debt Reduction. In addition to the three Editor's Picks he has sections on budgeting and saving, paying off debt or saving, reducing expenses to get rid of debt, bankruptcy, personal stories, and a few that don't quite fit......

• Guest Post: Do-It-Yourself Debt Reduction v. Professional Debt Reduction One of the businesses that is booming right now is that of "credit counseling." These are professionals who help you with debt reduction through such means as debt consolidation and debt negotiation. The idea is that you can have someone else take all of your debts for you, and roll......
• My Weekly Money Reader - Daylight Savings Edition I have family visiting this week from Florida (Mrs. ToughMoneyLove's cousin Bill and his family).  Bill's wife is trying to score a slot on a musical reality show and tryouts were this morning.  Don't know how that will turn out but it did require a substantial investment of time and......