This Week's Carnival Love

This week I had posts featured in two carnivals: at Paid Twice, the Carnival of Personal Finance featured my post Money Mind Freak, and over at Money Changes Things, BPT included my post The Outsourced Uterus in the Carnival of Ethics, Values, and Personal Finance. Thanks to both for hosting!

Carnival Love: Carnival of Personal Finance #137

The passion edition of the carnival is up over at The Dividend Guy, who includes my Blog for Choice post on personal finance and pro-choice politics. I'm a little surprised to have made the cut given the conservative tenor of many pf blogs. Filed under "A Passion for Careers" but oh well. I suppose he had a theme to maintain, and not many other entries for the "Passion for Uterine and Financial Autonomy." I'll file that under Pleased Just The Same.

Other posts I enjoyed from the carnival:

Penny Nickel at Money and Values blogs about research showing companies with happy employees have stocks that fare better. Not surprising, and it reminds me of the research out a few months back now finding a correllation between strong stock performance and high levels of customer satisfaction.

BPT at Money Changes Things taught her son to think about whether name-brand is better than generic by making him pay the difference. My parents bought me socks, underwear, and basic sneakers, and gave me a clothing allowance to spend as I liked on everything else. Thank God my high school years coincided with the popular rise of indie music, because I shopped at thrift stores, spent most of my clothing allowance on shows and CDs, and still looked fracking awesome. Lesson learned.

Bob McD asks a question I've been thinking, too: What would happen if we saved our stimulus package checks? He thinks it's unlikely and I agree, though I do think the checks won't do what they're intended to do. I expect people will be far more likely to put than money into a rent payment or a gas tank or a grocery store till--things they'd be spending on anyway, just at a deficit--than they are to go out and spend it on something frivolous in addition to their normal purchases. If people use it to buy things they would have bought on credit anyway, it won't help in the slighest. Aren't the people making these decisions supposed to be some sort of collective Genius Bar of money?

Carnival Love: Carnival of 20-Something Personal Finance

Dollar Frugal has posted the Carnival of 20-Something Personal Finance and included my post Wells Fargo Take... Four? Five? Ten?. Check it out, the whole thing is done in a haiku theme!

Carnival Love: Carnival of Personal Finance #135

This week's Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by Plonkee, is up. My post Roth 401(k) For Women is included--my first carnival ever. I think I'll have a cupcake to celebrate!

Plonkee did a great job organizing. There were a number of really interesting posts in this week's carnival. Plonkee featured Lynn's post from Being Frugal, How I Taught My Preschooler The Value Of A Dollar, which is a fantastic idea. And Madison at My Dollar Plan posts about the math behind Deal Or No Deal. Head on over and check out the whole thing.