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:

• Breaking The Addiction To Credit posted at No Credit Needed
• How to Get Out of Credit Card Debt, and Stay Out posted at Frugal Dad
• Surround yourself with constant reminders posted at Gather Little by Little
• Buy That Fun Stuff Without Going Into Debt posted at Free From Broke
• Simple Solutions to Staying Out of Debt posted at Our Fourpence Worth
• May Debt Reduction Progress posted at Sound Money Matters
• Compulsive Spending is the Biggest Behavioral Block Against Frugal Living posted at Financial Learn
• Debt-aholics Anonymous: 6 Steps to Becoming Debt Sober posted at Destroy Debt
• Make It Do Or Do Without posted at My Small Cents

Have a great week!

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