As some of you may know, I wouldn’t be where I am today without having joined the Yakezie group, started by natural born leader and Yakezie mastermind Financial Samurai.  I have learned so much and am forever grateful for the connections I have made with other personal finance bloggers.  Members of the Yakezie have a chance to host the Yakezie carnival, so it’s my turn today!  I’m going to start from the bottom up- Bottoms up!  (Just went to a wedding yesterday night, so don’t mind my references to alcohol)

Here it is for some fun sunny summery Sunday reading!  (Can you say that three times fast?)

PS HAPPY SUMMER! I hope everyone is as excited about summer as I am. =)

PPS Happy Father’s Day to all the fantastic, dedicated, hard-working dads out there!

Readers, what has your father taught you about personal finance that really ‘stuck’?  Please share!

My father has taught me so much about being an entrepreneur, and owning your own business.  He never really worked for anyone and always had many businesses going on, yet he still had time to go on month long trips with us in the summer.  He also taught me that cash flow from real estate properties is a good thing.  He was always so hard working, a real ‘do-it-yourself-er’. …I really admire him when it comes to personal finance (among other things, of course).  Happy father’s day, dad!

Yakezie Carnival

• Smart on Money gives us ten great tips on how to save money on a tight budget
• Miss Thrifty searches for Yorkshire’s Thriftiest Granny
• Wealth Informatics says it’s Christmas Time
• Chasing Prosperity is baaaack!! (in April)
  
• Retirement Investing Today talks about UK Rates and Mortgage Approvals
• The Wealth Artisan thinks that fun shouldn’t cost a fortune
• More Style Than Cash tells you the key people that you should call for back up when the sh*t hits the fan
• Darwin’s Money rounds up his favourite posts, and apologizes for apologizing to BP
• Digging Out from Our Mess gives a word of caution to us  young’uns
• Smarter Spend is moving so he’s taking a little break from blogging
• Invest it Wisely talks about opening up new frontiers (hi ho hi ho!)
• Frugal Confessions lets us in on her Frugal Confessions Friday
• Downturn Living discusses whether being completely Vegan is really that much more beneficial for the planet
• Dividend Monk talks about constant income amidst falling value
• Narrow Bridge Adventures talks about how the final stage of the credit card act will affect you
• Car Negotiation Coach talks about flying cars! (yes you read that right!)
• Financial Poor rounds up his Friday Night Likes
• My Money Minute counts down to the end of the Federal Housing Tax Credit expiry in April
• Single Guy Money warns you not to buy the new car!
• Stay at Home Mom CFO tells you how you can get $75 back if you bought a lawnmower in the last 16 years
• The Saved Quarter shares their passion for fresh fruits and veggies
• Bible Debt talks about being faithfully rich
• Watson Inc. talks about how you shouldn’t let your dream (home) become a nightmare
• Foreigner’s Finance explains why you need an emergency fund
• Peak Personal Finance teaches you how to automate your banking
• Clarifinancial teaches you how to tell between a true quote or a fake insurance quote
• BarbaraFreidberg Personal Finance tells you how trading in a car every 2 years makes financial sense
• Money Beagle asks you homeowners if you’re treading water (gulp! I hope I won’t have to ever be in that position)
• 151 Days Off Prays 2.0
• Christian Common Sense reviews the book Control your Cash
• Girl With the Red Balloon helps you answer whether you need life insurance
• Zach Younkin lets you know the options for College Financial Aid
• PF Firewall tells you 60 ways you can feel rich without the price tag
• CJBowker talks about how you only get one chance at it, so make it good!
• My Financial Objectives got nominated for a top 50 Financial Mentors award (me too!)
• Redeeming Riches tells you why making more money isn’t the answer (I concur!!)
• The Amateur Financier gives us his thoughts on tipping
• Beating Broke got nominated for the same award too! (yay Yakezie!)
• Evolution of Wealth explains what sole proprietorship means
• MillionaireNurse rounds up great nurse blogs of the week
• Money Help for Christians shares his free download spreadsheet tool that can help you pay off your debt
• The Centsible Life lets us know who won her Father’s Day Giveaway (darn I didn’t win the dremmel tool!)
• Couple Money reviews E3 (sounds fun!)
• Cool to be Frugal shares with us her net worth and blogging goals
• Little House gives us the range of the rent across the nation (OMG New York is that expensive?)
• Engineer your Finances reviews the book Enjoy your Money (I reviewed it too- it’s good!)
• 20′s Money asks you what you are pursuing
• Fiscal Fizzle updates us on his blog sabbatical (come baccccckkk, Wojo!)
• Out of Debt Again shares with us her Friday Finds
• Budgeting the Fun Stuff shares with us her weekly favourites, too
• Consumer Boomer reviews Ally Bank
• Personal Finance By the Book shares with us his father’s day =) (what a cute drawing)
• Bucksome Boomer shares with us some sweet memories of her father, in honour of fathers day
• Frugal Zeitgeist shows you that shopping for car insurance is really easy, if you follow his steps
• Joe Taxpayer calculates the math of refinancing
• One Money Design helps you decide whether you should transfer the balance to another credit card
• Saving Money Today shares us his lesson on trying to remember to think before you speak (I need help on that one big time!! you’re not alone)
• Money Reasons is reading The Snowball ( I want to read that too!) and learns that Warren Buffett was a renter
• Rainy Day Saver shares her Fix it Friday, learn how to put in a tree flowerbed (cute!)
• Not Made of Money shares some money saving coupon deals
• PunchDebt helps a reader decide whether to be a whore to money or not
• Deliver Away Debt updates us on the state of the blog
• My Journey to Millions shares with us a quote from the Fountainhead
• Monevator rounds up weekly posts and comments on England and the World Cup
• Ultimate Money Blog reviews WTDirect
• Sweating the Big Stuff went to bank heaven (can I go too?)
• Money Funk teaches you how to set up a spending plan
• Wealth Pilgrim gives us his fave links for the week, and tells us about Moolanomy’s new forum
• Len Penzo gives us his fave links for the week too
• Canadian Finance Blog gives us his fave links too, from a Canadiana perspective
• Early Retirement Extreme talks about how it might be the death of the buy and hold strategy as we know it
• Planting Dollars talks about financial baby steps
• Free from Broke asks whether the first time home buyer tax credit should be extended
• Eliminate the Muda gives us an example of the 5S strategy in action
• Consumerism Commentary gives us an update on the Smithee Debt
• Credit Card Chaser explains what a reloadable credit card is
• Financial Samurai tells us that the reply button is there for a reason (hint- it’s not to ignore it for emails!)