This week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction is up!  Please check it out!

Next week we’ll have No Debt Plan hosting.

• Some carnival business Three points of business: 1)  Last week's host, Simply Forties, caught right on to the new rules I had posted on BlogCarnival.com and on the submission form here: Posts submitted to this carnival shall not be submitted to any other blog carnival. A link back to the carnival is required......
• Being Frugal has posted Carnival 115 Lynnae over at Being Frugal has posted the brightly-lit Holiday World Tour Edition of the Carnival of Debt Reduction! There's a debt reduction lesson, along with several relevant posts, at each of the stops on the tour:  recognizing the problem, making a plan, make more and spend less, find support,......

• 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......
• Ten Tips for Funding Your Emergency Fund Emergency funds are wonderful things. Imagine how relieved you will feel when one of life’s unexpected emergencies comes calling and you have some cash put away to deal with it. First, though, you have to find a way to build that emergency fund. It can seem like a huge challenge......