The following serves as an example of what a Best of Money Carnival could look like. The contestants were taken from the 2009 Free Money Finance March Madness competition.
Welcome to the Best of Money Carnival, a weekly listing of the top 10 personal finance posts. This week we had 64 articles submitted, and here are the ones I selected as the top 10, with a brief description of each, in countdown order:
10. What the Volatile Market Tells Us About Ourselves - This post provides a realistic assessment of the economic situation at the time and it helps readers get their feet on the ground and realize that their emotions are the greatest financial obstacle they face.
9. Tips for College Graduate - So many college graduates are unaware of how important it is to begin a financial life with the right foundation. This piece offers ten key, finance tips for the recent college grad.
8. 29 Steps I Took to Leave the Workforce at Age 29 - Here's the financial road map that made it possible for the author to quit her job without scaling back on spending.
7. 100 Money Saving Tips for the Holiday Gifting Bonanza Post - Don't let the title fool you, these money saving tips are applicable at any time of the year, they just seemed especially useful so that you could save money to buy your friends and family more gifts! They are categorized by what aspect of your life they apply to (from eating & drinking to your home) and come with pretty pictures to boot! You are guaranteed to find at least one or two (or twenty) tips that you didn't know before or you will get your money back!
6. Why you can't trust real estate agents when buying a house - A post that may help you rethink your relationship with your real estate agent.
5. A Story About Banks; They Are Not In The Real Estate Business - This is the story of two men who had their dreams: one wanted to make money from his own farm and the other wanted to make money from the others through lending. By reading this story, you will understand how banks got into so much troubles.
4. The Pursuit of Financial "Happyness" - It doesn't matter if you're a financial ninja: personal finance just isn't about the money. If you don't know why you're trying to amass money in the first place, then every dollar you save is just another dollar you waste.
3. The College Student Debt Machine: A National Disgrace - This post exposes the shameful and often ignored failure of colleges and universities to control their own budgets. Concurrently, these same colleges freely encourage their students to use student loans to finance the ever increasing costs to attend. With no one held accountable, young adults graduate with crushing debt that takes years to repay.
2. Do you appreciate what you have? - Read about how a simple volunteer event one evening turned out to have an impact on a whole family. A one hour volunteer effort provided a completely different perspective on how fortunate the family is. Do you appreciate the things you have? Don't ever forgot, some people have little to nothing.
1. 10 Things I Have Learned About Money - Some basic and life changing learnings about money.
That's it for this week's Best of Money Carnival. If you'd like to be considered for next week's carnival at Free Money Finance, simply submit your post to through blog carnival. If you'd like to host a future carnival, send FMF an email asking for a slot.
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