Uncommon Cents

We once again welcome readers of the Festival of Frugality, brought to you this week by Budgets Are Sexy! Please have a nice visit!

Aloha and welcome readers of our usual Monday Carnival of Personal Finance, this week brought to you by Greener Pastures, and to a new carnival for us, the Carnival of Aloha brought to you by Homespun Honolulu. Welcome!

Like many Tuesday mornings we start this one welcoming our visitors from the Festival of Frugality, brought to you this week by Broke Grad Student. Welcome, and if you like what you see, consider subscribing to our RSS feed!

Welcome to your belated Link Payday for June 23, 2008 (since the fabulous Kyle of Rather-Be-Shopping.com returned and wrote his usual Friday post for us–which fell on the 20th–we delayed this payday a few days). Here’s some of the better posts I’ve read in my RSS reader the last couple of weeks.

The always entertaining JD of Get Rich Slowly discusses Why it Pays to Ignore Financial News. This article puts pretty succinctly one of the key tenets of long term investing: daily stock market fluctuations aren’t meaningful to your holdings over the long term–unless you act on them. Pay more attention to the things in your life that give you joy rather than your retirement account.

Can I Get Rich on a Salary asks how to Teach Yourself to Invest In Stocks? by covering MarketWatch’s daily money tips and offers a few suggestions of their own. I wholeheartedly suggest that people learn about investing in stocks, bonds, and funds; if you have the tolerance and taste for stocks, I suggest checking this piece out.

All Financial Matters asks the question that I wish everyone in this country–particularly those in Washington–would ask: What’s the Solution to Our Energy Needs? Gang, ethanol is not the answer (at least not corn based ethanol), but a combination of other types of alternative energy including (yes, I say this as an environmentalist) nuclear is. Let’s all work seriously to do whatever we need to do to get this resolved and get our country off of its dependence on foreign oil.

I’ve Paid For This Twice Already asks How Do You Decide When “The Time Comes”? In this case they are considering if it’s the time to replace their car. This is definitely worth looking at for making financial decisions with regards to some of the things we use every day, like computers.

Finally, Trent over at The Simple Dollar discusses Addiction and Personal Finance. As a professional in human services, I have to say that addiction can be a huge threat to your finances–if not your family, your relationships, your freedom, and your life.

And that’s your Link Payday for June 23, 2008!

Welcome this Monday morning to readers of the Carnival of Personal Finance, where Mrs. Micah hosts this week and our submission was an Editor’s Pick!

As a coincidence, our submission to the Carnival of Debt Reduction mentioned last night was also an Editor’s Pick. Two Editor’s Picks–our first two ever!–in twenty four hours. It’s a great day for Uncommon Cents!

Hello to those of you who are visiting from the Carnival of Debt Reduction! This is a new carnival for Uncommon Cents and we were fortunate enough to be an editor’s pick. This week’s edition is hosted by Squawkfox, who has a great (and very funny at times) personal finance blog. Please consider subscribing to our RSS feed if you like what you see!

Yes, you are still reading Uncommon Cents. The site just went through an overhaul, including a new theme. The latest version of Wordpress was installed, and it wasn’t fully compatible with my old theme, so I have a new, simpler theme, but it looks like everything survived. Same great content will continue to be coming out!

Aloha and welcome to visitors from a new (to Uncommon Cents) carnival, the Money Hacks Carnival, brought to you this week by Mrs. Nespy’s Frugal World. Have a great time!

I’d like to welcome readers coming to us once again from the Festival of Frugality, brought to us this week by Out of Debt Again. Welcome!

Welcome to those of you coming from the now three years young Carnival of Personal Finance, brought to you this week by Consumerism Commentary, the original host! Here’s to many, many more years for the carnival!