A big thank-you to Broke Grad Student for hosting this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction.  It has a Super Bowl XLII theme.  This was put together over the weekend because I had forgotten to send the posting information until this weekend.  Thanks for bailing me out BGS!

The Editor’s Picks (most valuable posts?) are:

• Silicon Valley Blogger shows you some debt defying strategies
• SingleGuyMoney is asking for advice as he pays off his car loan
• Squawkfox asks if having zero debt is weird
• Free Money Finance saith: Thou Shalt Limit the Amount of Debt on Credit Cards
• Luke Livingston explains that setting financial goals goes further than creating a budget

So regardless of whether you’re celebrating or licking your wounds from last night’s game — or not caring at all about it! — check out this week’s carnival!  DebtFREE-Revolution hosts next week!

• Moolanomy has posted the Carnival A big thank-you to Pinyo of Moolanomy for hosting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction. He's rolled out a History of Debt theme for this week's carnival, including information on Hammurabi, early coinage, debtor's prison, pawnbroking, and more! Here are the nine contributions that really struck his fancy this week:......
• Carnival number 64 is up at Necessary Virtues! Necessary Virtues has posted this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction!  A number of great articles in this carnival; here are some favorites.Matt Hutter tells how to avoid using credit cards.Credit Cave outlines his debt repayment plan.  (Keep it up Andy!)Free Money Finance shows how to pay off a boatload of......

• Foregoing the holy grail of the Super Bowl ad With Super Bowl XLII mere hours away, I was looking around for how much the going advertising rates for the event would be.  This year it's $2.7 million per 30-second slot, up $100,000 from Super Bowl XLI.  This is only a few cents per pair of eyeballs, though; the television......
• Weakend: Super Bowl Weekend Are you ready for some football? I'm not. As you know I am currently living in the DC area. Well DC got like 15 feet of snow last night and another 40 feet are expected today. Unfortunately I am not in DC this weekend to see all of this......