This week, I participated in four blog carnivals and received two editor’s picks. Thanks so much to all the blog authors and carnival organizers!

My Carnival Submissions

Carnival of Money Stories #62 - Hosted by Finance Gets Personal and featuring my post Spread the message: don’t join the club, which was honored with an editor’s choice. Yippee!

Carnival of Personal Finance #155 - Hosted by Moolanomy and featuring my post Why living cheap is more important than investing, which was chosen as one of the best posts in the “Frugality and Saving” category. Thanks!

Festival of Frugality #128 - Hosted by No Debt Plan and featuring my post What it means to be “cheap.”

Money Hacks Carnival #15 - Hosted by Broke Grad Student and featuring my post Don’t buy things made out of potatoes - just buy potatoes, which was honored with an editor’s choice. Awesome!

My Favorite Posts

…that are from these carnivals but are not by yours truly.

Review of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk - My $mall C€nts says that you probably won’t make a lot of money with Mechanical Turk, a service companies and individuals use to farm out menial tasks. Too bad! Via the Carnival of Money Stories.

26 ways to make extra money - Nice post from the Wisdom Journal about 26 ways to increase your take-home pay. This is, of course, the other side of the savings equation. Via the Carnival of Personal Finance.

Why you don’t want a budget - This thought-provoking post over at Saving Advice argues that maybe having a budget really isn’t the best way to save money. Via the Festival of Frugality.

10 reasons to be cool and make your own cards - If you’re too lazy to sit down and make a greeting card, check out this post from Budgets are Sexy for a little motivation. Via the Money Hacks Carnival.

Other Links

Avoid checked bag fees on American Airlines: just wear it all - That’s what I’m talking about! From Booking Buddy Blog.

Ideas are cheap - It’s implementation that really counts. What a smart realization. From Quest For Four Pillars.

Read full magazines for free, with or without an iPhone - A smart hack that’ll get you some free magazines. From LifeHacker.

The methods you use to deal with ordinary life will fail you as an investor - After reading this post, I’m pretty convinced that this is true. From The Simple Dollar.

What will you do if gas prices go… down? - Will you get lazy and unlearn all those good habits you picked up when gas prices went nuts? From Financial Ramblings.

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