Thanks to Bob of Christian Personal Finance for hosting this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction!  Please check it out!

• Blunt Money has posted the Carnival! Thanks very much to Blunt Money for hosting the 65th Carnival of Debt Reduction!The personal debt reduction stories are great testimonies to accountability and responsibility for the bloggers trying to get out of debt, so I like to highlight them when I can.  It's worthwhile to see how others go......
• Welcome to this week's Carnival Here are this week's debt reduction posts for your reading pleasure (personal debt reduction story at the top!): Personal Finance Journey cut the cable and applied the savings to Operation Destroy Debt. Debt-Tips.com discusses the pros and cons of debt settlement. Free Money Finance calls the mortgage interest tax deduction......

• Some carnivals for this week! It's been a busy time for everyone, but lots of great posts made it to some of my favorite carnivals: The Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted here! Next week, The Real Returns hosts! The Festival of Frugality, at Free Money Finance! Next week, Frugal For Life hosts! The Carnival......
• Check out my new sunflower! It's a great honor to be a new member of the Money Tips Network, a network of personal finance blogs aiming to "educate the public with honest and helpful money tips." What else can I say?  I join quite the stellar group of bloggers: Bargaineering Consumerism Commentary The Digerati Life......