Here are this week’s debt-reduction related posts:

• Couple Money gives three steps to staying motivated while paying off debt.
• Six Figures And Broke provides a debt reduction update.  More than half gone! Keep at it!

Enjoy!

• Carnival of Debt Reduction is up at Pragmatic Finance Happy Tuesday, all!  Sorry for the late notice of this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction at Pragmatic Finance.  I'm on travel and my internet connection was down last night. In any case, lots of great articles.  Jason lists three of his favorites at the top, and Recovering Broke Guy had......
• Welcome to a windy and rainy Carnival of Debt Reduction We're in hurricane season, and early last week there were five named Atlantic storms on the map:  Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine, and Karina.  Hanna is flying up the east coast of the United States as I'm putting this Carnival together. Thankfully Hanna wasn't much where I was on Saturday but......

• Guest Post: Do-It-Yourself Debt Reduction v. Professional Debt Reduction One of the businesses that is booming right now is that of "credit counseling." These are professionals who help you with debt reduction through such means as debt consolidation and debt negotiation. The idea is that you can have someone else take all of your debts for you, and roll......
• 7 Things I Think I Think (and Personal Finance Links) This weekend flew by quickly with three three days of watching the Boston Red Sox games in Oakland after having my sister-in-law and her boyfriend stay with us. That leads me into the first of 7 quick hit thoughts I had this week. As always, not all of them are......