Welcome to the 56th Edition of the Carnival of Money Stories.  This week’s edition was inspired by an interesting article that I read regarding facebook.

There were many informative and entertaining blog posts that were entered but many of them were not Money Stories.

If your submission doesn’t appear here, it’s not because it was not appreciated, it just means that it didn’t fit the genre of a Money Story or Experience.

Without further ado, here are this week’s selected entries: (The Blogs with arrows pointing to them have been given the editors nod).

Credit

Mr Credit Card presents Demonstraton Of The Starwood Amex Value Equation posted at Ask Mr Credit Card.

Debt

debt kid presents The Snowball Rolls Again posted at Debt Kid.

BIFS presents Financial Confession posted at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, saying, “We took a large loan out for bedroom furniture and hoped for the best so we wouldn’t have to use our emergency fund to cover it.”

Barb presents Understanding Credit: Part 3 Esmerelda Revisited posted at Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance, saying, “This story tells of a girl who got herself in debt really fast by her own doing. Esmerelda is like many young people just starting out. Read her story, and learn how to avoid going into debt.”

Investing

2 Cents presents How to Invest a Lump Sum of Money: Reader Question posted at Balance Junkie, saying, “Here’s the story of a reader who received a lump sum payment from an accident injury suffered by her husband. She was wondering how to invest the money, so we tossed the question to readers and received some good responses.”

Silicon Valley Blogger presents What Is Options Trading? An Analogy posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “I discuss what options trading is by using analogies and stories.”

Other

Money Beagle presents I Need To Duplicate Our Christmas Fund posted at Money Beagle.

–> FMF presents Help a Reader: Discussing a Pre-Nup posted at Free Money Finance, saying, “A compelling story and a question: how should one go about asking for a pre-nup?”

Joe Plemon presents Why Joe and Jan Do Not Have Long Term Care Insurance posted at Personal Finance By The Book, saying, “In spite of what the title seem to infer, this post is not about Long Term Care Insurance; it is about Joe and Jan…and why they don’t have any.”

vh presents How a Frugal Find Helped End a Friendship posted at Funny about Money, saying, “Can your frugal habits undermine relationships with friends?”

–> Donna Freedman presents Jam jars and laminate flooring: Why Freecycle rocks. posted at Surviving and Thriving, saying, “I kept five empty oatmeal boxes because I figured someone would want them. And someone did.”

jacqjolie presents The money taboo that should stay taboo – talking to others about their finances posted at Single Mom, Rich Mom.

LeanLifeCoach presents Frugal Printing, Is It Possible? posted at Eliminate The Muda!, saying, “Printer ink costs up to $4,000 per gallon, how frugally can we print?”

Shopping

The Wise Squirrel presents Pac-Man for Free – How About the Real Thing? posted at Squirrelers, saying, “Is there anything from your childhood that you couldn’t have then, but could probably afford now? Something that isn’t practical, but would satisfy a long-term want?”

Next week’s host is My Journey To Millions so please get your entries in early.