Weekend Link Love And Carnival Roundup

Christmas is almost upon us and I’m not even close to finishing my shopping yet.  If you’re a procrastinator like me, keep in mind that tomorrow (December 21st) is the last day to order from Amazon.com and be guaranteed of receiving your order by Christmas eve.

Carnival of Personal Finance

Thanks to Well Heeled, With A Mission for hosting this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance and including my post on year-end tax strategies.

JD at Get Rich Slowly says you can negotiate anything.  That’s right, absolutely anything.  You’d be surprised how often businesses are willing to bend to make a sell.

Bad Credit Advisor brings us home appraisal tips.

Single Guy Money  writes about why you should save money.  Sounds obvious, right?  Sometimes the simplest answers are the most effective.

Dividends Value gives current examples of three different classes of dividend-paying stocks.

Mike at Oblivious Investors writes about the difficulty of finding skilled fund managers.  His take is a bit different than mine.  My opinion is that it might be possible, but it’s a crap-shoot and you shouldn’t devote more than a small portion of your resources to it.  That is, while skilled managers might exist, beating the market is mostly attributable to luck, not skill.  His is that even if a skilled manager did exist, his skill would be quickly diluted by a flood of new capital.

Fabulously Broke In The City asks if men make women spend more money. Of course they do.  And vice versa.

M Is For Money Brings us Murphy’s Law of Personal Finance.  Can you guess what it might be?