A big thank-you to Blunt Money for hosting this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction! This week’s Carnival is a tribute to dear old Dad, fresh after Father’s Day.

Of the nineteen posts accepted for inclusion this week, one that caught my eye was Get Out Of Debt’s posts on paying off your mortgage, fast. Mortgage debt is debt, too, and under most circumstances should be reduced faster than the minimum rate.

Have a great week! Next week Squawk Fox hosts.

• 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......
• Picks from this week's carnival As promised, here are some of my picks from this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction: Searchlight Crusade does his usual thorough job with this post on forty- and fifty-year mortgages. New and creative ways to goad people into taking on more debt than they can handle so that they're forever......

• Budgets and Your Shoes In many ways, budgets are a lot like shoes: If they don't provide you with the perfect fit, your movement is impaired and you walk around feeling uncomfortable and awkward. Just like shoes, some budgets give you too much room or are simply too constraining. The key to finding......
• Weekly Round-Up: Runaway Cat Yeah, last Friday our cat ran away. He's never done this and I was scared that he'd get hit by a car. The good news is that he's now back in the apartment and he's alright. Thanks to my sweet husband and all the help from my Twitter buddies. We had......