Welcome to the 11th Festive Link Love Carnivality! Exciting happenings this week as I announced my personal finance tipping point contest. Here are the rules:
I’m giving away a $25 Amazon gift certificate. There are three ways to enter:
- Leave a comment on this post telling me your personal finance tipping point. It can either be the moment you realized you needed to fix your finances or that point where you discovered you were finally in the black. Make sure you leave a valid email address in the comment. This will give you one (1) entry.
- Subscribe either to my feed or via email. There will be a secret phrase at the bottom. Email me using my contact form and tell me the secret phrase. This will give you five (5) entries. (Note: If you are already subscribed you can still email me the secret phrase)
- If you have your own blog, write about your personal finance tipping point and link back to me. Email me through my contact form with your link. This can be a full-on post or a quick few sentences in a round-up. This will give you ten (10) entries.
You can enter each way once. I’ll put all of the entries into an online randomizer to choose the winner. Entries can be submitted up to 11:59 am Friday, June 13th. I’ll contact the winner to email the gift certificate. If the email address is not valid I will award the prize to the next email address in the randomizer. (I reserve the right to not include any entrants I consider SPAM).
At the moment there are around one hundred entries. You still have time to get in so let’s see those comments, posts, and the secret phrase!
Now to this week’s carnivals:
The 155th Carnival of Personal Finance – Time With Family Edition was hosted by Moolanomy. I’m humbled to have my post Five Things Indiana Jones Can Teach Us About Personal Finance included as an editor’s pick! This is the fourth week in a row that I’ve had an editor’s pick somewhere!
The 2nd Carnival of Financial Learning was held at Financial Learn. American Express Likes Me But Not Enough was included.
The Money Hacks Carnival #15 – French Open Edition was held at Broke Grad Student. My post Do You Love Your Job? A Credit Card Evaluation was included.
Also, Money Life Network‘s very own Prime Time Money will be hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance.
And Bible Money Matters, also a Money Life Network member, will be hosting the Carnival of Money Stories.
Make sure to check out both carnivals!
Now for some fun stuff in my Google Reader:
Thoughts of a Pregnant Mom at One Caveman’s Financial Journey. It’s expensive having a child.
The Wrath of Meta Stuff at On Simplicity. What we buy to organize our stuff can be stuff in disguise!
7 Common Interview Question for the New Graduate at The Wisdom Journal. A great post to help prepare for job interviews.
Weekend Roundup: Happy Anniversary Being Frugal! at being frugal. Lynnae celebrates a year of great content! This is an early site I discovered and it’s always on my short list of reads.
Six Key Steps to Healthy Finances in your Relationship at Zen Habits. You and your significant other need to be on the same page with finances.
How to Start a Blog Network at Blogthority. Where was this a few week’s ago before we started the Money Life Network?!? We went through many of the steps listed.
Now for my friends in the Money Life Network:
A Deeper Look Into Late Payments And FICO Scores at My Investing Blog
A Tipping Point to be Free From Broke at Milk Your Money
Reaching the Tipping Point at Bible Money Matters
Saving Money IS Investing – So Act Like An Investor at Prime Time Money
This just in!! We have another contest to announce!
This one is hosted by the entire Money Life Network. You have a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card. The Money Life Network will be writing posts on how you can save money this Summer. Check out the contest page for details.
That’s it for this week. Until next time – Read, Learn, and Enjoy!
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Thanks for including me! I totally loved the Indy piece. I’m a sucker for anything Dr. Jones.
My tipping point was turning 41. It was just a big slap in the face. Turning 40 didn’t do it, that one was anticipated, but hitting 41 just put me over the edge with realizing that I only had 24 years until I hit 65. You can accomplish a lot in 24 years, but I realized that I was far behind where I needed to be. I started seeking information on personal finances and discovered several of the big PF blogs. I looked at where I should be (finance wise) and knew the jig was up. I had to get everything in order.
Thanks for the mention!
My down and out point is when my husband said it is your family or your spending problem. I now belong to debtor’s anonymous. Please enter me in your drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
My tipping point was when we sat down, and realized that we were spending more each month on eating out than we were on groceries.
I jus sent in my entries…great contest you got going
I’m late to responding here. Thanks for all of the submissions to the PF Tipping Point contest!
@ Sara – No prolem. Loved the post. We’re in for a major re-organizing at home!
@Ron – Not sure if you are truly behind but I know there are people out there who are at retirement age and still not prepared!
@ Caveman – You’re welcome
@ Cindi – Glad to see you made the right choice!
@ Channah – We try to be conscious of that. It’s easy to go out all the time but for us it’s just too expensive!
@ David – Thanks!
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