Journey to Financial Freedom hosted Carnival #23, and this week’s Flashback is from Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Making Monthly Payments Weekly.  Dividing up your payments (paying a fraction every week rather than once a month, for example) allows a faster paydown of a loan.  Plus, if you divide your payment in four and pay once a week, you actually sneak in a full extra payment a year, but it hardly feels like it.  This is an extra trick you can use to pay down your debt faster.

• Welcome to this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction Here are the recent, on-topic posts submitted for this week's carnival.  Enjoy! Engineer a Debt-Free Life kicked off a six-part series on how to get out of debt. Get Rich Slowly highlights debt reduction in #6 of his ten steps to financial success in 2010. Man Vs. Debt is ready......
• A post-tax-deadline Carnival of Debt Reduction Now that the tax deadline anxiety has (hopefully) passed, here are this week's debt reduction posts: Debt-Tips.com runs through the ABC's of getting out of debt faster. The Digerati Life is a fan of debt snowflaking. The Smarter Wallet shows how to get out of debt in four easy steps.......

• How I Generate Extra Income by Letting Strangers Pay My Rent This is a guest post from Rebecca Rosenfelt, the founder of RealSavvyRealEstate.com, a website devoted to demystifying the home buying process for first-time home buyers. I almost never pay the entirety of my rent. I don’t have roommates and I’ve never been evicted. In the four years I rented a......
• Former Fat Guy Rob Cooper On Fitness I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Rob Cooper, the Former Fat Guy, about his natural weight loss experience. We covered his fitness, nutrition, and mental health. He is an inspiration to all, he once weighed nearly 500 lbs. 500 POUNDS! It took him only two and half years......