A big thank-you to Rocket Finance for hosting this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction! Two of this week’s submissions caught his eye:

• Not the Jet Set proclaims the frugal virtues of frozen pizza.
• The Digerati Life suggests ways to make 10 ordinary things last longer.

Enjoy the rest of this week’s articles at the Carnival! Next week DebtFree-Revolution hosts! (BlogCarnival.com says that the carnival is here next week but it’s actually over at DebtFree-Revolution; working through a technical glitch for the time being.)

• The Super Bowl XLII edition of the Carnival is up 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......
• The Carnival is up at American Consumer News Thanks go out to American Consumer News for hosting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction! This week we have a Secret To Life edition. The three Editor's Picks this week are no secret, though; here they are: Frugal Dad investigates how to identify the why of becoming debt free. (My......

• Expanding Our Retirement Living Options Mrs. ToughMoneyLove and I returned this evening from a weekend visit to a new community being developed on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Although not explicitly marketed as a retirement community, clearly the target buyers are retirees and retirement-hopeful baby boomers. We discovered while on a trail ride that some......
• Boomer and Retirement Weekly Reader - Renewed Optimism Edition This has been a week for renewed optimism in the possibility of a reasonable retirement. The markets have improved while interest rates remain low. I'm not suggesting a strong increase in equity allocation in your retirement portfolio. (More about that in a little announcement I have next week.) But if......