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Carnival of Personal Finance #192: The Family Day Edition

For those of us in Ontario, it is Family Day and this year, it seems everyone is “celebrating” it (meaning all banks, and stores are closed), so let us also celebrate with a Carnival of Personal Finance.

As this is my first time hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance I figured Family Day would be a good thematic premise to build our list of submissions for the week from.

Family Day

Each section will be advice that might typically come from a member of your family (with a rating on the value of the advice as well (at least my point of view)).

Fatherly Advice

We all know what kind of advice this is, “… I remember in my day we lived on $10 a week and we liked it…” and other gems about “… a penny saved is a penny earned…” from our Dad’s. Stoic advice to keep us walking the “straight and narrow” path in the carnival of Personal Finance.

Motherly Advice

Enjoy Family day

This is the emotional advice that tugs at your heart strings and maybe isn’t well based in facts, but is “emotionally smart”, like “… loan your dead beat cousin $300 I know he’ll pay you back…”, and other interesting statements like that.

Brotherly Advice

This is advice that may be a little weird and not exactly the best advice, but always with an interesting angle to make you at least wonder if it is good advice or not:

Matt from StupidCents presents Attention College Students – How to Make Money While at School, an interesting idea, but what if you still need your old books?

Always the Planner asks Cash vs. Credit, never take advice from your brother in this area, do what is right for you.

Trevor from Financial Nut tells us Pros & Cons: Moving From Microsoft Excel To Google Docs For My Budgeting, I guess figuring out where to store your financial info is good on Google Docs, but maybe not…

Spousal Advice

We all know this advice type, “… why did you buy the 1080i HDTV, when the dishwasher is still broken?”, and other useful “buzz kill” type pieces of advice.

Hopefully your family gives you as good if not better advice, from this Carnival of Personal Finance.

Feel Free to Comment

  1. g2-63887c123ffd050b54320fa764e3a9fa

    Would have been a great carnival had you included the rest of the great articles that were personal finance related. Any reason you slashed such a large number? You excluded mine which was 100% on topic. Good way to tick off a bunch of fellow bloggers.

  2. rocketc – rocket finance is a blog that does not have a specific purpose, but rather a general interest in all things having to do with finances. Credit cards, frugal vacations and family finance are areas where I am most comfortable.

    Thanks for the link, eh!

  3. Thanks for hosting!

    I think people are finally starting to realize that Family Day is a true blue stat holiday – about time we had one in February

  4. Tom Drake – Canada – Husband and father that writes about personal finance at MapleMoney.com and marketing and entrepreneurship at CreateHype.com.

    Thanks for hosting!

    My focus wasn’t on selling your own books, but rather finding books for sale and reselling them via other channels.

    Stupidly Yours,

    Matt

  5. mmarquit – Miranda Marquit, MBA, has been writing about money on the internet for more than 15 years. She's contributed to NPR, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, Huffington Post, and numerous other sites. She's an avid podcaster who's been involved in projects including Money Tree Investing Podcast and the Money podcast from Money Talks News. Miranda lives in Idaho where she enjoys spending time with her son, travel, board games, reading and the outdoors.

    Thanks for including me! Great posts, and fun theme!

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