Personal Finance Round Up, Mentions and Carnivals #43

Personal Finance Round Up

The following are some of my favorite posts from around the personal finance blogosphere this week. Make sure to check them out if you’re looking for some great reading material.

Money Beagle considers How Much Money Cable Companies Make. You can do this exercise with a lot of businesses to come up with some interesting results.

Consumerism Commentary comments on the fact that Maker’s Mark is Adding Water. They’re essentially diluting their product and charging the same price. Other companies change the amount of product in their packages. Watch out for this.

See Debt Run asks Love It or List It? They examine whether or not it is time to sell their house or stick around for a few more years.

Mr. Money Mustache faces off versus the Internet Retirement Police. Some people think retirement is only defined as sitting around and doing nothing. Mr Money Mustache disagrees.

So Over This explores the concept of Wants and Needs. Great read to make you think about your wants vs needs.

Mentions

The following is a weekly list of the blogs that have featured my posts and which posts they featured. Check out these bloggers and if you missed one of my posts that they featured I’ve linked to those as well.

Budget and the Beach mentioned my post We’re Engaged!

My Money Design and I Heart Budgets mentioned my post Should I Buy a Beach Front Condo Follow Up.

Frugal Rules mentioned The Family Finance’s guest post How I Got Faster, Cheaper Internet by Rearranging My Furniture.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter mentioned my post How We Set Up My Girlfriend’s Budget.

Planting Our Pennies and Evolving PF mentioned my post Am I Crazy? Not Taking the Optimal Financial Path Might Be The Right Decision.

Student Debt Survivor mentioned my post How Do You Feel It Is Payday?

Carnivals

This week I was included in the following carnivals. Thanks to the following for hosting and including me.

Carnival of Financial Camaradarie, Weekend Ramblings, Carnival of Financial Planning, The Money Mail Carnival, Financial Carnival for Young Adults and Lifestyle Carnival mentioned my post How We Set Up My Girlfriend’s Budget.

Carnival of Retirement, Carnival of Money Pros, Festival of Frugality mentioned my post Am I Crazy? Not Taking the Optimal Financial Path Might Be The Right Decision.

Carnival of Personal Finance mentioned my post How Do You Feel When It Is Payday?

Have an awesome weekend!

Do you have any plans this weekend? Trying to catch up on something you’re behind on? Or are you going on a fun adventure?