Happy Monday! Here are this week’s posts. The two at the top are personal debt reduction stories. It’s always a pleasure to receive these.

• Eliminate the Muda shares a personal story of how earning more doesn’t always solve debt issues.
• Debt Free Adventure tells about his big win with Lending Club.
• Christian Personal Finance has a guest post that outlines five ways to deal with medical debt.
• Man vs. Debt has a spartan post: excess is a liability.
• An Emergency Fund explains how to take advantage of payment protection plans as you pay off your debt.
• Bargaineering compiles some US credit card debt statistics.
• Get Rich Slowly finds that Suze Orman thinks that paying with cash is a good thing.
• Digerati Life shares Oprah’s Debt Diet.
• The Smarter Wallet discusses Dave Ramsey’s debt reduction philosophies.
• Personal Finance Analyst tells the merits of packing some extra snow on your debt snowball.

Have a great week!

• Prime Time Money has posted Carnival #140 Prime Time Money posted a circus day Carnival of Debt Reduction for this week! He had quite a few Editor's Picks: Free From Broke doesn't think credit card debt should weigh you down. My Two Dollars serves up ten quick and easy ways to reduce your debt. The Happy Rock......
• Reduce Debt Faster has posted the Carnival A special thanks to Reduce Debt Faster for hosting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction.  Four posts hit the top of the heap: Trees Full of Money explained how they paid off over $90,000 in debt.  Bravo! Debt Tips discussed whether or not we should listen to debt experts. Christian......

• Suze Orman Gave Bad Advice I love Suze Orman. I think her show is lots of fun to watch. She's smart, engaging, and who doesn't love her 'Can I Afford It?' segment? I just saw an ad for the Halloween episode, and I remember watching last year's 'financial ghosts' episode one year ago. The being......
• Weekly Mashup, May 3rd This week you can find me in 3 different carnivals with 3 editor's pick and 1 normal inclusion: EDITOR'S PICK: FIRE Finance hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance and included my article on What to do with all of your extra money?. My editor's pick was my guest post on......