Again I’m doing the end of the week carnival and roundup.  But next week I’m hosting the Carnival of Debt Reduction so please submit posts here.

• 164th Carnival of Personal Finance
• 71st Carnival of Money Stories
• 24th Money Hacks Carnival
• 1st Carnival of Financial Freedom - new check it out
• 52nd Carnival of Money, Growth, and Happiness
• 10th Carnival of Financial Learning
• 6th Carnival of Investing
• 20th Carnival of Everything Finance
• 1st American Economics Carnival – new check it out
• 9th Carnival of Financial Goals – my single step challenge is here
• 8-7-08 Kids and Money Carnival

For weekly roundups this week check out these blogs and posts

• Ashley from WideOpenWallet again gives us a chance to win the book “Green Living“
• JB at Get Rich or Die Trying tells us “How he helped his mom“
• Penelope @ OurFourPenceWorth talks about “Free and Frugal things to do in LA.”  I miss LA and I used to live pretty close to the Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade. I lived there when an old man ran over the pedestrians!  Thank god I wasn’t biking on it that day.
• Kevin at NoDebtPlan tells us about “freedom to do stuff.”  That is exactly how I feel.
• My guest post at WideOpenWallet “Birth Conrol and US healthcare“