Personal Finance Advice

One of the biggest fallacies with personal finances is that there is a single way to (beyond the basic foundation of spending less than you earn) approach them. There are so many extenuating circumstances for each person that what may make perfect sense for me doesn’t make any sense at all for others. If you want to get your finances in order, one of the most important things you can do is get different perspectives about personal finances and money management so that you can come to a conclusion of what is the best approach for you.

It is with this in mind that SavingAdvice is joining the Yakezie Challenge. The Yakezie Challenge is a group of personal finance bloggers who are dedicated to creating and promoting quality personal finance content. By featuring other bloggers and guest posts we hope to provide a wider perspective on different personal finance topics and give readers a chance to get as much (or as little) personal finance information as they desire.

I asked others that are taking part of the Yakezie.com challenge to pick out their best / favorite post so that you could take a look at them and see if there are any other blogs that you might like to follow. Here are the posts that they picked that should give you a good indication if you might want to follow these blogs in the future:

Do The Amish Pay Taxes (from Frugal Confessions)

5 Fairy Tales That Keep You In Debt (from So Over Debt)

Should You Get a Degree or Drive a Truck? (from DQYDJ)

What Is Your Favorite Board Game To Teach Financial Literacy? (from Family Money Values)

Living Well on Less Than $10,000 a Year: Habits of Skilled Visa Workers (from One Cent At A Time)

Stop Whining And Take Responsibility For Your Situation (from DollarVersity)

How To Retire By 40 (from Retire by 40)

How to Start a Business (from Young Adult Finances)

Debt Economics: Shopaholics Don’t Have a Spending Problem, They Have Issues Managing Their Leisure Time (from Smart Family Finance)

Meal Plans Kick Grocery Lists’ A$$ (from Married With Debt)

How to Live your Dream Life Debt Free (from Prarie Eco Thrifter)

10 Ways To Become A Great Salsa Dancer (from Jai Catalano)

How do you get gazelle when you have nothing to sell? (from Daily Money Shot)

Why do we get in debt? (from The Money Principle)

Why You Should Quit Paying Down Your Debt (from Money Is The Root)

Should you make peace with bankruptcy? Four points to consider… (from Super Frugalette)

10 Unique Ways to Save Money (from Master the Art Of Saving)

The Basics (from The Dog Ate My Wallet)

5 Ways To Improve Your Savings (from Everything Finance Blog)

Should you buy a home in this economy? (from Arron Hung)

Carnivals

Each week there a number of blogging carnivals that feature the best posts on different financial tops for that week. For anyone that needs a little extra weekend reading, there should be plenty to choose from. Here are the carnivals that ended up featuring posts from this blog for the last week:

A big thanks for My University Money for hosting the Carnival of Financial Camaraderie

Another big thank you to Prairie Eco Thrifter for hosting the Yakezie Carnival

Marie at Family Money Values did an wonderful job putting together the Totally Money Blog Carnival

And in other news, I wrote about Clara and her Great Depression Cooking in 2009 as a great Youtube channel to follow for simple inexpensive meals. Clara decided to make her last video teaching how to make Tomato Sauce: