Celebrations and giveaway events:

• Elle over at Couple Money is giving away a laptop to celebrate the one year anniversary of her blog. Congratulations on reaching one year, Elle and wow, I remember when you were at your six month anniversary. Seems like just yesterday!  Time flies!
• Kevin at Invest It Wisely is celebrating his six month anniversary with almost $300 in prizes to give away, check out his easy to enter form right on the post!

Out of Debt Again was included in two carnivals this week:

• Whooo!! I'm so excited to have my post We Saved $318 on Auto Insurance included as an Editor's Pick at the Festival of Frugality #247 Passive Index Investing Edition hosted by My Personal Finance Journey. Thanks Jacob!

• Complex Search hosted the Carnival of Money Stories #71 and included my nail biting story on how I almost lost out on getting a $15 rebate from Fry's Electronics. Thanks for including my post!

BTW, don't forget this week and next is my third year blogoversary celebration. If you haven't already entered my giveaway, please go and do so now. You only have to be an RSS subscriber and find the secret code through your feed reader in order to have a chance at winning $800 in cash and prizes. Good luck!