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• Share the humor of the funny
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• Highlight and explain new financial and health news-so you don’t miss it!

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This week’s news  was sparse other than President Obama being called out about his Supreme Court Call-out.  Some of our business and health news is more entertainment than business or health.  But heck, we all need a laugh, and Laughter is the best medicine, and  all that.

The sports world is going crazy this week.  You’ve had the men’s and women’s NCAA Basketball finals, congrats Kentucky and Baylor. Stellar seasons both.  Baseball {my Braves lost 1-0   }opening day was Wednesday, and Thursday saw the opening round of the Masters.

That reminds me of a story….

I was in Medical School at Augusta, and one of my wife’s friends had offered me a ticket for the Thursday opening round my Junior year.Something I had been drooling and dreaming of for years…..I woke up that morning with a GI bug like I’ve never had before, with cold chills and other symptoms that will go unsaid.  That’s one more reason I don’

t bother to buy lottery tickets. If they say it’s 500 million to one odds, double that for me…

Happy Easter To All!

$6,400 Robotic Toilet

And Kohler can’t keep up with the demand in China.  No wonder it’s so popular, it uses motion detection and a remote control to open and close the seat and to flush.  The leg warming porcelain, built in stereo, and 3 bidet settings are additional features.  Even a gynecologist wonders about 3 bidet settings.

Deserves To Be In The Olympics

Octogenarian doing a gymnastic routine at an exhibit in Germany.  Amazing video.  She’s more limber than many teens today.  Got me beat.

Want it both ways

The New York Times is reporting that the drop in prescriptions and physician visits last year were down they theorized because more people don’t have health insurance.  In my practice it was down, because co-pays and deductibles were higher.  Which  is what I thought Health Care reform was all about, people with skin in the game will decrease utilization and therefore decrease their costs.  Now they are complaining about utilization dropping.  Amazing.

Quit Complaining and Go Back To Work!

This report in USA Today was all about cutting costs on unnecessary testing and treatments.  I’m all for that!

Smartphone to the Rescue

When your toddler falls 40 feet into a narrow dry well shaft, besides panic, what do you do?  Send your smart phone down running a video of ‘how to tie the rope’, he follows instructions, then presto, he’s in Moms arms.

Batman Rides Again

Funny dashcam video of officer pulling over, well, Batman. We get to watch.

Billionaire Idol

Warren Buffet needs to stick to investing…   At least he has a sense of humor…. The fabulously wealthy guy sings his way on to the stage at the Omaha Press Club.  He wouldn’t have made the first cut on American Idol.  Way past pitchy, dog.

Real Estate Ad: Town For Sale

Are you in the market for a fixer upper?     You, too, can own your own town, Cowboy! Fixer uppers galore..

Bat Pee and The Lottery

Andrew Esltner, a guitarist for the Florida metal band Torche didn’t win the lottery but a bat did piss in his eye.  The events are not connected but the chances of either happening to you are about the same.

Other Articles of Interest

The Podcast in which I’m a Panelist, The Worst of The Free Financial Advisor Podcast, week 3…Don’t miss this bit of audio wisdom.

A Blinkin at Funancials has a very interesting take on sandwiches and money.  If you are able to follow his train of thought I might worry about both of you.  I think the ending was kinda lewd but I’m not sure….

Erin over at The Dog Ate My Wallet has a nice example of how to analyze your expenses.

The American Debt Project announced a few wins in the battle with  the frugality resistance gene.  Good job, soon you’ll be taking cold showers and buying only Salvation Army.

Kay Lynn becomes Barbara Walters at the Bucksome Boomer with financial tips, or is she the  new Oprah?

How Canadians are becoming more fiscally conservative and their economy is improving gangbusters @ Invest It Wisely.

Carnivals and Those Who’ve Liked Our Stuff Here!

Stock Carnival Ecstasy at Fast Swings

Carnival of Financial Camaraderie at Step Away From the Mall

Carnival or Money Pros at Financially Consumed

Financial Carnival for Young Adults at 20s Finances

Lifestyle Carnival at Thad Thoughts

Life and Business Coach Carnival at Innovative Solutions for Positive Change

Financial Simplicity Carnival at See Debt Run

Top Personal Finance Posts of the Week at Personal Finance Whiz

Carnival of Retirement at Tackling our Debt

The Wealth Builder Carnival at My Wealth Builder

Festival of Frugality at Dewey’s Tree house

Baby Boomers Blog Carnival at Baby Boomers US

Money Infant hosted the Kings of Cash Flow.

Barbara Friedberg  liked our saving money on gas use and getting divorced over it post.

Giveaways

Invest it Wisely has an Ipad (3) and lots of other great stuff through April.

Finance Triggers is giving away a $50 Amazon gift card.

Married (With Debt) is giving away $50 in cash.

Have a great Easter, and thanks for reading!

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I have been asked to participate in a waste of time podcast hosted by Average Joe, of Free Financial Advisor fame.  I’m on the best part of the show, a panel made up of several personal finance power-players.

Our job is to be so entertaining that listeners will sit through the first part of the podcast where Average Joe and The Other Guy discuss

dry important financial issues.  Yep, it’s like reading a romance novel, you have to wade through all the foreplay before you get to the fun stuff.

The panel consists of the eponymously famous Len Penzo, the no longer anonymous Dominique, from Your Finances Simplified,  and the delightful Carrie from Careful Cents.  The only thing we have in common is our complete lack of ability to take ourselves too seriously, except maybe Penzo, but hell, he’s an engineer so we forgive him his rigidity.

If you want to hear the first show, check out this link:  http://traffic.libsyn.com/thefreefinancialadvisor/WFFA_001_-_A_Big_Reveal_College_Planning__the_Roundtable.mp3

I plan on having a good time, if you enjoy it, so much the better.  If you’ve got better things to do, I completely understand, but remember, we’ll have fun without you…

Now, on to the Friday Follies:

Strippers and Ball Players

Let’s see, did I get that headline right?  Strippers offered money to a cash strapped school ball team, instead of normal ballplayer/stripper interaction.  The offer was declined, something about ethics?

Rhinoceros Horns are Valuable

Antiques Roadshow estimated their value at a cool $1 to 1.5 million.  A man had been collecting the cups for years, not as an investment, but because he liked them.  Curious about their current value, he hauled them to the Road show.  These rhinoceros horn cups were the most valuable item ever identified at the Show.

Black Tide

You’ve got  red tide that plagues coastal areas , but black tide?  Tide (yes, the detergent) is being stolen and then sold on the black market.  Buyer beware: guy on the street opens his coat to expose jugs of Tide:  don’t’ do it!  Avoid those jugs.

Snails as Intel Gatherers

They are the curse of my garden/weed plot and totally loathsome to look at.   Scientists in New York see them differently and have harnessed their energy to power batteries and envision them as ‘swarms of innocuous intel gathering insects’.  Slimey, even with batteries and microphone!

Butt Cancer?

Marketing 101, if you got something to say on a billboard, make it short, sweet and to the point. Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer.   Tacky, over the top, sensationalism, this Chicago billboard takes the top prize.

No Budget, No Wipe

That’s the story in Trenton New Jersey.  If the budget brouhaha is not resolved soon, municipal buildings all over the city will run out of paper. All kinds of paper,  including the toilet kind.

A&F Invasion

Saville Row in London has been invaded by the worst sorts of occupiers.   It’s not bad enough that Abercrombie and Fitch have opened their doors in the elite ‘hood, but flocks of tourists are arriving, by bus no less.  The audacity!

Hospitals and Hotels:

Therea Brown RN writes a great Op/Ed in the NYTimes discussing the new quality measures and comparing hospital rankings to rankings for hotels.  Great review of what is facing healthcare facilities in the next few years.

Great Gift

Notre Dame gets the largest single individual donation in its 9o year history.  It is for the nursing school and will be used to expand the program.

Personal Finance Reads:

Len Penzo voices the wonder of gas appliances in 100 words (so he says, I didn’t count ‘em.)

Free Money Finance has his review of credit card deals, see  what he thinks is the best.

Funancials tells you where you screwed up your bracket, (he would’ve told you how to fill out your bracket, but since this is Friday Follies and the madness started yesterday, it’s too late.)  You losers bookmark it for next year, though.

American Debt Project slams lame stereotypes on ads and celebrates 100 posts. Congrats.

Money Beagle waxes nostalgic over the price of stamps.  Remember what stamps cost when you were young?

Carnivals

Yakezie Carnival

Carnival of Financial Camaraderie

Carnival of Retirement

Festival of Frugality

Carnival of Money Pros

Giveaways:

Super Frugallete has a 50buck Target card.

Jeff at Good Financial Cents is giving away 500 bucks, the deadline is 4+days, so don’t procrastinate.  You do have to give him a five item bucket list, shouldn’t be too hard, that’s 100 bucks an item if you win….

Retire by 40 has a $25 Amazon Gift Card Give Away thru March 24th

Modest Money has an ipad giveaway until March 31st

Have a great weekend, and thanks for reading.  Don’t forget to waste a few minutes listening to the podcast.

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Law Suit Over High Movie Snack Prices

I know.   It’s about time a movie theater sued a patron for paying the ridiculously high snack prices: $8 for a coke and goobers.  But no, it seems the patron is suing. How strange!  The movie goer must have been coerced?  Embarrassed he paid those awful prices?

Pink Slime

No, not a Valentine’s story gone wrong.  Just school lunch purchases gone bad.  ‘Give it to Mikey, he’ll eat anything.’   Hint: Don’t look at the pictures on this one.  Might make you sick.

Marine Making Good PF Decisions

The headline is that he won 3 million bucks off a slot machine at the Bellagio Casino.  My new hero, a US Marine corporal was already planning to donate bone marrow in a selfless act to help another,  now  says he will use his winnings to help his family.  The little noted part of this story?  He needed new clothes after his windfall.  Where does he shop?  At the Bellagio?  Oh, NO.  At a thrift store.   Good stuff!

Lessons Learned

Teen cleans room after weeks of nagging by his mom, and what does he uncover?  Dust, spider webs and a winning lotto ticket worth $82,000. I never buy lottery tickets, so it would be a real miracle if I found one at all, much less a winner.  But, maybe????

Google Street Maps ‘Whizzes’ Past

So, this French fellow is in his yard, minding his own business, taking a leak.  Oops, the Google street maps camera sweeps his yard.  He is so pissed his pissing is published he phished up a lawsuit.  Let that be a lesson to all you outside whizzers.   I’m glad my home’s not visible from the street.

Coleslaw Wrestling Pumps Money into Local Economy

Of course, it’s the oil that makes the difference.  Bikers week in Daytona brings in 3 million dollars to local businesses.  The coleslaw wrestling event at a local bar gets a DJ play by play and is hugely popular.  To me, it just needed the videos to get the full affect.  Don’t want to miss this one.

Accused Extortionist Wins Mayoral Race

It’s not just that he’s facing a felony rap and is elected to office.  Well, he’s also banned from City Hall.  Guess they can hold meetings in jail, provided it’s not in City Hall.  But wait, the new mayor is also banned from talking to city workers.  Talk about difficulty communicating.  Where’s Andy Griffith when you need him?

New iPad

I know you’re tired of  reading/hearing about Apple.  Or you’re an Apple addict and this is old news to you as you monitored the “Live Blogging” feed with the announcement of the newest iPad.  With an HD video camera, more pixels than a high def TV screen, and faster than a speeding bullet on the 4G networks.  Will you be a buyer or use this as an opportunity to buy an  iPad 2 trade-in or at the new price?

It’s a Winding Road to a Fake Supplier

The search for the delivery chain of the fake cancer drugs continues.  Before these counterfeiters were discovered, there was already an investigation into this gray area of drug deliveries that involves a zig zagging path through multiple jurisdictions.  This is scary stuff.

Personal Finance And Other Great Reads:

 

Kay Lynn at Bucksome Boomer wrote a great, inspiring article.  Go read it.  You’ll be glad you did!

Money Reasons is experimenting and liking it.

Funancials is moving on up and out.  good writing and fun.

Super Frugalette  has a guest post examining the lifestyle changes that affect your mortgage decisions.

Eyeglasses on the cheap by Donna at Frugal Cool.

James Altucher riffs, as he always does, on the does college  makes you successful debate.  (if you are a blogger study his headlines, he is very good at headlines.)

Eric at DollarVersity says cash sucks.  Not a bad headline.

Carnivals and Roundup Love

Working at Home Blog Carnival, 282nd Edition

Personal Finance Whiz liked my singles buying a home is nuts post.

The Carnival of Financial Planning

Canadian Finance Carnival #77

Carnival of Financial Camaraderie

The Life and Business Coach Carnival

Yakezie Carnival at Miss Wall Street

The (Second Ever) Lifestyle Carnival

Baby Boomers Blog Carnival

The Wealth Builder Carnival #69

101 Centavos liked my post on getting a raise in three easy steps.

Len Penzo at his eponymously named blog, and Average Joe with his non-eponymous blog, liked my personal finance tips found in The Lady With The Dragon Tattoo.    Kevin at Invest It Wisely also joined the link love party with that post.

Give Aways:

If you ScanSnap, enter to win $3000 Amex gift card. Enter by March 31.

$75 Paypal giveaway from Super Frugalette

$50 Leap Year Giveaway at Your Finances Simplified

Have a great weekend, and thanks for reading.  Go you colseslaw wrestlers, GO!

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This post is in honor of my son’s birthday.  He’s a great kid, smart, married up,  caring and carving a space in this wonderful world.

I can hear him now, “Thank God for spell check,”  his life long techie mantra that came to mind as I read about a spelling mishap.

It seemed appropriate to mention his only (yes the only one, I’m his Dad after all) weakness:  he can’t spell worth a damn.  Says he gets it from his Mom.  I don’t like to argue.

Happy Birthday Will!

Let’s get started with the Friday Financial Follies, a folio of funny fables for your reading pleasure.

Express Mail-Not!

Two hundred years is a long time to wait on a package, but the government of Spain took delivery anyway.  Maybe they were persuaded to accept delivery because it was 496 million dollar’s worth of gold coins. Ya think?

Web Marketing 101

Dumb Crook meets high tech.  A hit man tried to use the internet to market his business.  Seeing as putting a price on a head, a.k.a contract killing, is illegal and the FBI prosecutes that sort of thing, the fella advertised himself to prison.   Note to self…

Can’t Even Read It

Thermometers can be hard to read when swallowed as you’ll see in the video of a Chinese woman’s lung.  She has a thermometer that shows up in an x-ray from an accidental swallowing 44 years ago.

Stuck that Rabbit Pose

Yoga is a wonderful way to stretch and meditate, and…Win a medal at the Olympics?  There is a growing call for this soothing, ‘get in touch with your inner self’,  activity to carve out a niche at the Olympics.  Go for the gold medal in Upward Dog?

Medical Tats:

Medical Tattoos-No kidding.  Replacing bracelets to pass on medical info, these tats don’t say ‘Mom’ or USMC.  Ink over  your heart about your feelings on CPR?  Can’t miss this message!

Those Newborn Bracelets Mean Something

Newborns are on lockdown in the hospital, even if your last name is Kennedy.

Career advice?

Plastic surgeons head to  Buffalo, New York.  Local teachers have cosmetic surgery rider in their health insurance policy.   Don’t worry, just the taxpayers picking up the tab.

Personal Finance  and other good reads:

10 Interview Questions designed to trick you at Yahoo Money. I’m not looking for work, but you may be…

Super Frugalette tells you how to estimate your taxes to prevent the Feds from using your money all year.

Funancials explains to you why you want to eliminate your tax refund.  Great story!

Steps to a cleaner, straighter, more organized, less cluttered closet at American Debt Project.

Suba at Wealth Infomatics discusses the paradigm of quitting your job/falling out of love with your career.

Free Financial Advisor reviews Mint. Joe is a true convert. I’ll have to go back and see if they’ve added my small town banks.

The Money Principle has a brain teaser. Stop teasing, I’ll admit now, I have no brain!

Carnivals,  Roundups and Giveaways, Oh My!

Carnival of Financial Camaraderie

Top Personal Finance Posts of the Week-Dubstep Cat Edition

Yakezie Carnival-The Daytona 500 Edition

The Wealth Builder Carnival

Carnival of Retirement-8th Edition

Baby Boomers Blog Carnival

Invest It Wisely liked my success and productivity post.

American Debt Project and Free Financial Advisor liked my post on 8 reasons single women buying homes vs renting.

Giveaways

Win $25 in cash at Stock Trend Investing
The Extra Money Blog is hosting a $1,500 plus more give away
Win an iPod Shuffle at Black Freelancer.

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff and fellow bloggers are giving away over $500 in cash.  Sign up by March 5th.

Have a great weekend, and thanks for reading. And if you see Will, tell him Happy Birthday!

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This week has been filled with meetings….I’ve had breakfast meetings, dinner meetings, lunch meetings, and meetings before dinner.  One, no two of those meetings were actually beneficial.

Alas, the rest were not productive.

Why?

Why are so many meetings good for only the surreptitious checking of emails and making a few blog comments/tweets with your iPhone palmed under the table?

(I’m the only one guilty of that right???)

Many meetings are just a traditional time for sharing.  I would rather get a summary in my email box rather than have a meeting.

There are many times though, that a face to face is required to measure the true position of your meeting partners.  An email can’t read body language. It can’t always detect sarcasm and can sometimes misread snarky humor (which I love) for a  belittling bully (which I truly dislike).

Those determinations are easy when you’re face to face.

Some are born to be boors, whether in person or by email.

I do my best to avoid those folks. The older I get, the easier it is for me to just say no to folks I don’t want to work with, meet or greet with.

Avoiding the obnoxious is a talent I would encourage all of you to hone to a razor’s edge.  You don’t have to be ugly, just apologize and say “Sorry I can’t.” No explanation required. The fewer words you use, the less time you have to put that big foot of yours in your mouth…

Let’s get started with Friday Follies  before I’m accused of “having a meeting” and wasting your valuable time!

Financial follies

美元贬值 ( Yes that reads: The Decline of the Dollar)

The decline of the dollar in world wide business circles has increased the importance of Mandarin Chinese.  Could this be the language of the business world of the future?   How rusty is your Mandarin?  Will international MBA language change to Chinese?

No Longer Just a Carefree Pet

That’s right.  Chia pets were all the craze in the 80′s and 90′s.   Now its Chia seeds that are all the craze due to their high concentration of Omega 3 fatty acid.  Get in on the ground floor of the latest boom in dietary fads.  Seen a Chia farm lately?

Which is it?  My body or my antibody?

Some men just have it.  They’ve got a body that makes a woman drool.  New research suggests its a dude’s ‘antibodies’ that pique a girls lust, not a his ‘body’.  Go figure!  I guess I’m 0 for 2.

Danger lurks.

Bathrooms are dangerous places, OK, got that:  slips and falls.  Didn’t know they were talking about toothbrushes, did ya?  Chipped teeth, facial injuries.  No.  Really?  Read this FDA warning.

Liquid Pawn Stars

Must have missed this episode on Pawn Stars.  Beverly Hills pawners bringing in their fine wines, by the case, to raise a little cash.  When you say ‘fine wine’, does that include my fine boxed wine? By the case?

Late Flu Season

Latest flu season in 3 decades.  I was just telling a patient this week, we’ve seen almost no flu this year.  I’m dreading next year, payback will be hell.

Fake Chemotherapy

In the “it had to happen sometime” category, we’ve had counterfeit chemotherapy drugs confirmed in the USA. Sad, Sad, Sad…

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Wearing a Nurses’ Cap?

A Swedish hospital released an ad seeking ER nurses who were TV series ‘HOT‘.  Head nurse Elisabeth Gauffin defended the ad as just a way to stand out.  As of this writing, there had been no hot or otherwise, applications.  TV series HOT? WTHWTT? (Yep, I’m getting good with those twitter shortcuts…)

Mutual Fund’s Founder

79% of Large Cap Mutual funds lagged the S&P 500 last year, a multi-decade high in stock picking futility….It’s also the fees, fees, fees.

Personal Finance And Other Good Reads:

The College Investor has an introduction on peer to peer lending.  No, not your brother-in-law or co-worker that you know will never pay you back….but a real investment with returns and everything.

Getting a job through social media is discussed at One Cent At A Time.  Interesting stuff.

A Sallie Mae horror story is at FSYA. LaTisha shares her own personal story of student loan debts, a story way too common.  If you are in or about to go to college, or  going to have kids in college soon, READ THIS NOW! Before it’s too late…

Damn, another post that will tug at your heart strings….Andrea at SoOverDebt shares consequences of poor financial decisions.

Len Penzo screws with the food pyramid with 4 unconventional but frugal eating joints.  Ugh, Ikea, Ugh, Ikea, Ugh, Ikea….(that was fun to write-actually I’ve never been, but I’m not really tempted…)

Donna Freedman who blogs at Surviving and Thriving and one of my favorite writers has a new gig with MSM Money called Frugal Cool. Check it out-it’s pretty frugal cool!

Giveaways:

iPod Shuffle at the Black Freelancer.

Extra Money Blog is giving away a bunch of stuff, including $1500 in cash moola.

Sams Club promotion is explained at Maximizing Money.

Frugality is Free is giving away a WalMart card.

Gal Time is giving away beautiful blue nile earrings, did I say they were gorgeous?  I think they may match my blue scrubs, too bad my ears aren’t pierced…

Special Thanks Department!

A special thanks and shout out goes to Jai Catalano, a dancer, photographer, videographer, but most importantly a Father and Husband who featured me in his blog this week.  And I didn’t have to pay him…  Damn what a headshot….Thanks Jai!

Carnivals for your reading pleasure:

Carnival of Financial Camaraderie

Yakezie Carnival

Lifestyle Carnival First Edition

Carnival of Financial Camaraderie

Carnival of Retirement

Carnival of Financial Planning #224

The Wealth Builder Carnival

Fast Swings Stock Carnival Ecstasy

One Family’s Blog Carnival:   Road to Financial Independence

Baby Boomer Carnival

Canadian Finance Carnival

Oh, don’t forget to check out the second installment of Average Joe’s above average series on managing your money.  I almost forgot him…. what’s gotten into me???  Your pay check direct deposited into your Savings Account.  Interesting, and worth trying.

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The Las Vegas ‘Heartattack Cafe’ has a new mascot.  

Weight over 350 pounds? Free Food!   Meat lover went all in with his triple bypass burger and is recuperating in a local hospital.  Patrons thought it was a marketing heart attack- took pics and posted to social media…Can you say viral heart attack?

1001 Duct Tape Uses?

Naked and duct taped role play?  Keep it at the house next time.  Nine patrol cars ‘tied up’ for hours searching for supposed duct taped and naked victim as  seen by bystanders.  All just a Valentine’s Day duct tape date. (say that quickly three times)

Foreclosure Rate Jumping

What do you get when the banks settle their foreclosure lawsuit with the feds? A huge jump in the foreclosure rate! The sooner these homes clear the market, the sooner we’ll reach a bottom in the real estate market.

Vaccines Voluntary?

Mandatory Vaccine laws are under assault.   What happens when we have a mumps epidemic again, with thousands killed each year?

Smoking safer?

Niceville, FL man lost some teeth and part of his tongue when a bottle rocket, also known as an electric cigarette, exploded in his mouth.  Hard to think he’ll look at them the same again.  Maybe try bubble gum?

Personal finance and other good reads:

Jeff at Sustainable Life Blog’s eyes are opened about bartering.  I don’t think I want to offer a PAP smear exchange, but I’m sure I can come up with something else…

A Breaking Bad personal finance teachable moment.  Can you say that with a straight face? American Debt Project manages  that pretty well and pretty funny too!

Suba @ Wealth Informatics wonders if Money Can Buy Love? The answer is yes, but is that good or bad thing?

Shaun interviews Elle at Smart Family Finance about the changes children bring to your finances.  Those bundles cost a bundle now!

Punch Debt, Jesse, and some other cool dudes who will go nameless, ’cause I don’t know who they are, came up with this manly pinterest-like site,  laden with testosterone.  Cool stuff, go check it out!

High deductibles or higher premiums, which is the right way to go on your health insurance? The ole chicken or egg discussion covered  well at Sweating the Big Stuff.

Average Joe’s Budget  Baby Bad Boy, for your reading and dissecting pleasure.  It will make sense cents to all but the LenPenzo spreadsheet geeks among us, and they will run from it like Lady Gaga runs from conservative frockery.

Carnivals and Giveaways!

Carnival of Financial Planning

The Life and Business Coach Carnival

Carnival of Retirement

Invest It Wisely linked to my Valentine’s Day post.

Yakezie Carnival at 101 Centavos

The Wealth Builder Carnival

Baby Boomer Blog Carnival

Giveaways:

Sunil at The Extra Money Blog is giving away iPads, and money and a trip. Cool stuff!

At Funancials: $25 gift card!

Superfrugallete is giving away $50 gift card!

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