Weekend Link Love And Carnival Roundup
This past week was a busy one for most bloggers. Most took at least a few days off to celebrate the holidays with their families. Still, there were some good posts this week.
Finance Blog Network
Curt from Pennyjobs gives us 10 things to avoid at your family Christmas party. Managing family relationships is both a positive and a negative part of the holiday season. Raise your hand if this post strikes a chord. Yeah, I thought so.
Andy from Saving To Invest relates the parable of the village and its monkeys. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Passive Family Income tells us how to control home heating costs. This is especially important when money is tight.
Rich Credit Debt Loan reveals a few signs your teen needs money management help. I would go so far as saying a little self-examination by most adults would reveal a few of these signs as well.
Carnival of Personal Finance
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance was hosted by The Finance Blog Network’s own Andy over at Saving To Invest, and it was a monster. Thanks to Andy for including my post of 8 Job Interview Tips. I’ve never actually hosted a carnival on this blog but think I should. Any feedback on whether or not it’s worth the work involved from a traffic/subscriber/networking perspective?
Budgets Are Sexy gives us 3 Rules For Cash Gifts. Cash is by far the mots common gift I receive. This year unfortunately, I’ll be spending most of my gift money on bills and such but usually, these rules are spot on: spend the money on something you’ve always wanted but are too frugal to buy yourself. There’s nothing wrong with indulging a bit.
Brip Brap asks, What If Saving Was Stupid? He raises a good point: Soviet citizens thought “nothing that bad could ever happen here” too.
Master Your Card gives us 42 ways he’s going to make 2009 awesome. I suppose my resolution is to relearn a musical instrument: I haven’t practiced my guitar nearly as much as I should have the past few years and it shows. By next Christmas, I plan to be Jimi Hendrix reincarnated. His suggestion to learn a new language is also an excellent one in this rapidly-globalizing world. <Transparent Self-Promotion>Might I suggest Spanish?</Transparent Self-Promotion>
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Thanks for the metion. You should definetly host the carnival – a long but rewarding experience (just don’t do it while you are on holidays!!!) In terms of traffic, there has been a marginal increase. I thought it would be more, but it is the holidays and so less web traffic generally. Seen a small subscriber increase (+10).
I think the best thing was the presence building aspect as more people in the PF domain have now heard about my site. In the longer term this should be beneficial.
Thanks for the mention – I never hosted the CoPF but carnivals are a lot of work. There’s some decent return on the time investment, but just be ready for a LOT of work.
Thanks for the plug of my article. I haven’t hosted the CoPF carnival because I think it’s probably too much work – but I could be wrong.
I agree, TOTALLY worth hosting one – Esp the Carnival of Personal Finance
It’s def. a lot of work to get it decent looking (think 6-8 hours), but you can surely work on it in pieces so you don’t strangle yourself.
You get to check out a lot of cool sites and get major traffic for a few days….it’s a great experience even if you end up not liking it.
OH, and thx for the mention! happy new year