And here she is.

Next week we will have Rocket Finance hosting.

And the following week, we’ll have No Credit Needed stepping up for Carnival #200!

Thanks to everyone who submitted to this week’s Carnival!

• DebtFREE-Revolution has posted the Carnival DebtFREE-Revolution has posted this week's 150th Carnival of Debt Reduction! Here are her three favorites: Pants in a Can writes about “Red Zone Finances” and takes some analogies from football to apply them to debt elimination I Need Motivation writes “How I Paid $25,000 in Debt Within 18 Months.“  That's......
• Flashback: Just wait Blueprint for Financial Prosperity hosted Carnival of Debt Reduction #13, and No Credit Needed's article is the topic for this week's flashback: The value of waiting NCN likens a credit card purchase to eating cotton candy.  I like cotton candy while I'm eating it as much as the next guy,......

• 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......
• Expanding Our Retirement Living Options Mrs. ToughMoneyLove and I returned this evening from a weekend visit to a new community being developed on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Although not explicitly marketed as a retirement community, clearly the target buyers are retirees and retirement-hopeful baby boomers. We discovered while on a trail ride that some......