The winner of the book “It’s all too much” is Helen. Please contact me at livingalmost at gmail dot com!  Thanks to everyone for entering.

This week I got back into the swing of things and back into Carnivals.

• Festival of Frugality Labor Day Edition
• 168th Carnival of Personal Finance
• 104th Festival of Stocks
• 10th Investing Carnival
• 75th Carnival of Money Stories
• 14th Carnival of Financial Learning
• Money Hacks Carnival - Print Edition
• Carnival of Financial Goals - Sarah Palin Edition
• 7th Carnival of Net Worth
• 09-04-08 Edition of Kids and Money
• 13th Finance Fiesta

Roundup of PF bloggers and others

• GetRichorDieTrying talks about “The Documentary: The Breakdown“, breakthrough here on debt…
• Kristy tells us about “Buying Retirement with a Credit Card“, we’re at new lows.
• Ginger talks about “Putting on the lace gloves and getting the car you want at the price you can afford.”
• Prime Time Money debates the topic “New or Used Cars“.  It was more of a dialog between two people but funny!
• Bible Money Matters asks the question “who is to blame for your money problems?”  He says you are, funny though most people who use Dave Ramsey blame the credit cards as “snakes”, so how is that taking responsibility?
• Financial Ramblings asks the question “What is Frugality?”  I don’t think I’m very frugal, but maybe compared to the norm?
• Pennyjobs asks “Where does the victim mentality come from?”
• Nickel asks the question “What’s your oldest Credit Card?”, I’m right at the 15 year mark, wowsa about half my life.
• Nickel also writes about “Updating our Allowance System” @ Raising4Boys.  I love that site maybe a bit more than his finance site.  But he needs more posts!  I’m hooked on the stories.
• NCN says “You CAN” get out of debt.  Yep everyone can, but you have to want it!

That about wraps up the week.  Have a great weekend and check out my new blog LAL Musings!