Hello to all my lovely readers, how are you doing today? It’s bright and sunny in Arizona, warm but not hot yet.  We’ll have about one month of blissful weather and then it’ll be time to roast like we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.

Here are some great links I found around the blogosphere:

Elle from Couple [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Hello and I hope everyone is having a great Friday.

Here are some great reads I found around the blogosphere in the past week:

Money Reasons had a good post today on Saving Money by Buying Used Clothes for Kids.  My mom couldn’t afford new clothes for seven children, so we wore “new” things [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I’m a little late to join the party but I happened to visit Rainy Day Saver’s site from a tweet and happened upon her post about the Yakezie Challenge which originated from Creating Powerful Friends: Samurai’s Alexa Ranking Challenge. This is my official announcement that I’m joining the challenge!

I didn’t enter any carnivals [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

This week I participated in the Carnival of Money Stories #42 hosted by Personal Finance by the Book which included my post: Happy Valentine’s Day. Thanks for for including me, Joe!

Some posts that I liked at the CoMS2:

Super Saver presents Why We Chose a 30 Year Mortgage posted at My Wealth Builder.  I like [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I didn’t participate in any carnivals this week, but I still found some good stuff out there in the blogosphere:

Mr. Credit Card has stirred up quite a discussion over at Fiscal Fizzle with his guest post Is Passive Income Real? The frugal and green-minded Mrs. Money asks Is Climate Change a Hoax? at [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I haven’t done a Friday Finds post in forever, and this week I want to include my thanks to Credit Card Offers IQ for hosting the Carnival of Money Stories: Superbowl Edition on Monday and including my post I’m Drowning in Receipts.

Some other stories I liked from the CoMS2:

Money Management Advice From [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Mrs. Micah’s In Case of Alien Abduction Series. This is an important idea. Like Mrs. Micah, I am also the one in charge of our finances, and I am going to start keeping hard copies of all this information. Mr. A doesn’t “do” computers and if something were to happen to me and [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Fridays are my catch up days. I work Monday through Thursday and by Friday I’m eager to catch up on reading. Here are a few posts I enjoyed.

Frugal Fabulous’s Frugal Mother’s Day Gift Ideas: These are some really great ideas and most moms are thrilled with handmade gifts. Katie is making her mom [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]