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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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Hello and welcome to the 316th Carnival of Personal Finance- Family Edition. Philip from Deliver Away Debt shares his story: How I Delivered Away My Debt. Big Cajun Man from THE Canadian Personal Finance Site asks What is Your Financial Plan B? How about you? What do you think? What do you think?

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Carnival of Personal Finance #384 – Time for a Laugh Edition

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Hello and welcome to this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance. If any of you have seen me host carnivals before you know that I like to add in some funny clips about personal finance for your enjoyment. Kristen from My Dollar Plan reminds us Why You Should Tell Your Family About Your Debt. I love this list.

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Get Debt Free With DIY Debt Settlement

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Guest Post Author Bio: This guest post was written by Frank Collins, a professional writer specialized in topics related to personal finance, debt relief, credit repair and more. If you are willing to settle your debts on your own, pass through the debt settlement blog for more tips and advice on the topic.

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Brian. He writes at Debt Discipline about about how his family of 5 deals with money, budgets and debt. I started my blog Debt Discipline to help keep us accountable while paying off our debt. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it?

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Are Peer Loans Too Risky or the Way of the Future?

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The largest loan company, Lending Club, is getting ready to issue stock on the New York Stock Exchange and the media are already all over the story. Rates for loans are competitive with personal loans from traditional banks. In the past, most loans (80%) have been for debt consolidation. Credit is a tool in personal finance.

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How to Prevent Three Common Disastrous Personal Financial Mistakes

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A financial advisor told me recently that the thing that really made him upset was that nearly every new client he spoke to was making the same disastrous personal finance mistakes. So let’s look at the most common personal finance mistakes and what you can do to prevent or fix them. That was me, at any rate.

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Best of Money Carnival #112

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While the plot, acting, music composition, and special effects are normally what others focus on when watching this movie, there are actually quite a few lessons in personal finance that can be learned from The Dark Knight as well. Being a personal finance geek myself, I found this piece of trivia neat to read.

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