Rocket Finance has foregone the Super Bowl theme for the Bailout (economic stimulus, whatever) theme for this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction.  Please head over to check out this well-done Carnival.

• Consumerism Commentary has posted the Carnival A big huge thank-you to Flexo at Consumerism Commentary for hosting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction! It's an attack of the Enemies of Doctor Who for this week's posts. Here are his faves for the week: Mighty Bargain Hunter discusses priorities with Debt reduction, saving, and investing: Which when?......
• Welcome to Carnival of Debt Reduction #114 Good evening! Looks like I'm pinch-hitting for DebtFREE-Revolution this week; she's feeling really lousy and just got on to tell me that she can stay up for a couple of hours at a time before she collapses. So you might want to drop by her blog and give her some......

• Link Roundup: Quilt patterns edition I'm really excited for my wife.  She showed some of her quilt patterns to the owner of a local quilt store, and the owner has decided to give a trial run to ten of her patterns!  She loves designing quilts so this is a big deal.  She's also gearing up......
• 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......