A big thank-you to Green Panda Treehouse for the fantastic feast of a Carnival this week, from hors d’ouvres to the desserts.  What’s more, there were five entrees:

• Digerati Life gives ten frugal steps to help survive an economic crisis.
• No Credit Needed describes how credit card companies calculate minimum monthly payments.
• Erase Debt shows how to get rid of debt with less stress.
• Finance Tips 101 reports on dealing with credit repair.
• Cash Money Life explains how this year’s credit crunch affects you.

Enjoy the good fixings!

• Living Almost Large has posted the Carnival Thanks to Living Almost Large for hosting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction.  We both got a bunch of snow over the past couple of days, and on my end it took a while for the Internet to thaw out.  So here are the Editor's Picks for this week: Payday......
• Paid Twice has posted the Carnival Thanks to I've Paid For This Twice Already for putting together a great Snowflake Edition Carnival of Debt Reduction!  Paid Twice has started a new website called SnowflakeRevolution.com which is designed to be a "compendium of snowflaking blogs" -- the kinds of snowflakes that build up to be debt snowballs.......

• Seven Lessons I've Learned While Being In Debt As a Young Adult I, and now my wife, have been in debt ever since enrolling into college.  After college, like many, we both got a good paying job.  However, you quickly find that being on your own results in many purchases, most of which are needs in order to live a comfortable life.......
• Link roundup: Soon-to-be-drenched edition We're back from New York, and planning for a lot of rain in Virginia from Tropical Storm Hanna. First off, a big thank-you to Smart Spending for linking to my article on evaluating kids' extracurricular activites! Here are links of interest from the MBN and other blogs in my reader:......