Weekly Round Up: Messing Around With Video Games

This week has a bit crazy with traveling to meet family and some other things. We’re currently enjoying the new TV and taking turns playing some games on it. I just finished the main storyline on Fable 2 and I’ll go back and play it to handle a few side missions. Right now, though, we’re playing Mass Effect.

I hope you have a great weekend!

Blog Carnivals

• I hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance this week. I want to thank everyone who particpated.
• Mighty Bargain Hunter hosted the Carnival of Debt Reduction.
• The Festival of Frugality was handled by My Frugal Adventures.
• Stretchy Dollar hosted Carnival of Money Stories.
• Carnival of Twenty Something Finances – was taken care of by Independent Beginnings.
• The Canadian Finance Blog organized the Money Hacks Carnival.
• Carnival of Pecuniary Delights thanks to Taking Charge.

I really enjoyed the posts below. Being busy this week, I didn’t get to them until Friday, but it was worth the wait.

Top Personal Finance Posts This Week

• Weekly Round-Up: Save your Money Edition The College Money Network is running a two week series on Graduating From College During a Recession. You can get all of the posts in this series and more by subscribing to the College Money Network RSS feed.   Personal Finance Carnivals Carnival of Personal Finance was hosted at Weakonomics. The Carnival included my post......
• Guide to Fixing Your Credit Report and Raising Your Score Sometimes I get questions sent to me through the email. Some questions are very specific and some a bit more universal. /caption] Reader Asks a Question About Credit Reports One question I received through email this week was about credit reports and scores. Here's the gist of the question: Should......

• Using Credit Cards to Make More Money When it comes to credit cards, most of us think of them as a way to get things we really want right now. We may not actually "need" these things, but we sure do want them. Whether it's a new couch, a new stereo or even a new wardrobe, we......
• Money Mistake Monday - The I Applied For Too Many Credit Cards Syndrome. Photo by k9ine. There was a time when I think I had every credit card under the sun - reward cards, store branded cards, miles cards...you name it, I probably had it. And the scariest part of that was that I was a college student barely making $4.00 an hour......