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 three-year-old daughter has no problem asking “Why?” all the time, so maybe she’ll have the answer.)

Mad Kane’s Humor Blog (here’s a new one for me!) amuses us with the loose change exchange

Almost Frugal tells it straight: What do you do when you fall off the wagon?

Enjoy the rest of this Week’s carnival!

• DebtFREE-Revolution has posted Carnival #122 Thanks go to Ana over at DebtFREE-Revolution for posting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction.  Ana's picks for this week: Breaking the Consumer Debt Cycle from Thrifty Like Us Where Was That Time Machine Anyway? at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already (she's gotten a serious number of Editor's Picks......
• The new Golb Guru blog has this week's carnival! This guy's a trooper!  Not only did Golb Guru move his blog from blogspot to its new home at thetaoofmakingmoney.com, but he did a great job with a lot of posts for this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction!Two picks from this week's carnival:Blogging Away Debt gets driven crazy by her......

• Carnivals for the week of 8/10 The Carnival of Personal Finance #117 was hosted yesterday over at KMull.  My article Personal Finance is like Driving a Car was featured as a "solid article" (Thanks Kevin!). The 25th Carnival of  Money Stories was hosted by the Tight Fisted Miser and included my article Does Good Customer Service......
• Weekly Roundup: Not Enough Hours in the Day Edition Wow, is it already that time of the week again?  Seems like just yesterday I was writing the weekly roundup for last week.  One benefit to staying busy is it helps time go by fast.  One downside to staying so busy is time goes by too fast.  I need to......