Value For Your Life plays host to Festival of Frugality #145, the Gratitude Edition.  The world may feel like it’s upside down on it’s head, but there is still plenty in each of our lives to be grateful for.  The editor’s picks include:

• The Life Less Traveled tells us the uplifting story of a family that downsized to a camper and hit the open road.
• Sound Money Matters makes a compelling argument in The Case for Frugality: Now and Forever.
• MoneyNing gets both creative and practical in Save Money by Cooking Even When You Are Not Home .
• Master Your Card presents The Costs of Apartment Living.

Thanks for doing a great first time hosting job!  Next week the festival travels to Dollar Frugal so get your entries in!

The festival this week is up at My Two Dollars - the scheduled host did not post the festival today so David stepped in at the last minute to get it out there. Stop by and show your support and read the frugal insights of the week. Thank you David!

Since there were not editor’s picks this week, I am going to be silly and say you should read mine and Jim’s first

Jim presents Home Grown Vegetables Taste Better posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity

paidtwice presents Just Because You Clip It Doesn’t Mean You Have To Buy It posted at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…

Make sure to stop by the festival to read the rest of the great entries! Next week the Festival travels to Value For Your Life (I hope!!) so get your entries in!

Or at least, it is at Living Almost Large!  Check out the great festival this week starting with these editor’s picks:

• Smart Spending: Make your own hot-flash spray, and other frugal hacks
• SimplyForties: Frugality vs Charity
• FruGal: The Top 5 (Evil) Tips for Frugal Living - FruGal
• Frugal in the Fruitlands: Coupons vs. Generics, Round One: Contact Solution
• Super Gas Saver: Mercedes Smart Car – Smart Car, Dumb Idea?? | Super Gas Saver

Thanks for hosting, LAL! Next week the festival travels to Frugalous so get your entries in!

Frugal Babe makes her post-baby hosting debut with the latest edition of the festival!  Here are her favorite picks:

• Jennifer from Saving Advice has a list of ten things that money can’t buy.
• Grey from Frugal Fu is challenging us to pay it forward.
• Jacob from Early Retirement Extreme is moving into an RV, which will drastically cut monthly expenses.
• Jaime from Cheap Healthy Good has a great post about easy, inexpensive meals for one.
• Miss Thrifty has a post - complete with pictures - about her Thriftymobile.
• Colin from The Truth About Credit Cards tells how you can stop getting credit card offers in the mail.

Thanks for hosting!  Next week the festival travels to Living Almost Large so get those submissions in!

Or at least, that is where this week’s festival can be found!  Kelly hosted Festival #141 at Almost Frugal this week and did a very French and Fabulous job!  Here are her editor’s picks:

• Fire Finance offers us an in-depth, back to school, super-savers resource!
• Free from Broke shares his experience in saving money by not going with an online travel agency.
• Kris presents Life Skills 101: A Curriculum for Food, Finance, and Other Real World Basics posted at Cheap Healthy Good.
• Silicon Valley Blogger talks about a subject that’s on everyone’s lips at the moment in Smart Cars, the Aptera and Other Ways To Say No To High Gas Prices posted at The Digerati Life.
• Grey presents Revisiting the Fashion Debate: The Environmental and Fiscal Impacts of Fast Fashion posted at Frugal Fu.

Next week the festival travels to Frugal Babe so get your entries in!

FIRE Finance has published issue #140 of the Festival of Frugality, an edition they term “pithy”.  :)  I will try to keep my comment short and sweet then:  Thanks!  Here are the editor’s picks:

• “The Pursuit of Happyness” - Savvy Frugality
• “Don’t Go To A Private University” - Jim, Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
• “How to hold a successful garage sale” - Toni, Wifely Steps
• “Bowing to Frugal Grandma” - Miss Thrifty
• “Avoiding Mortgage Foreclosure” - Ace Elliott, Care One Credit

Next week we travel to Almost Frugal so get your entries in!

BlogCarnival has recovered from its DB issues, please use the Festival of Frugality submission form to submit your entries.

It appears that BlogCarnival has gone down for the count, for the time being, please send all submissions to fofmail [at] gmail with the following information:

• Your name/penname/what you want to be called
• The title of your post
• The permalink/URI of your post
• The trackback for your post (if you have one)
• A brief summary of the article

Thanks!

Festival of Frugality #139 is the Michael Phelps edition and is up at Our Four Pence Worth.  Check out these gold medal entries:

• Silicon Valley Blogger presents Lost Money: How Money Drains Add Up To $175,000 In 10 Years.
• MoneyNing presents Frugally and Happily Back to School 9 Different Ways.
• Kevin Brink presents “Sale” Can Sometimes be Just Another Four Letter Word.
• ISPF presents 10 Tips to Get Anyone into the Habit of Cooking at Home (Even if You Have Never Stepped into the Kitchen Before).
• Savingadvice presents Reached Financial Independence. Now What?

Thanks for hosting!!  Next week the festival travels to FIRE Finance so get your entries in!

Thanks to MoneyNing for putting together another stellar edition of the Festival of Frugality.  He highlighted some refreshing ideas, including:

• Steward presents A Frugal Shopping Tip That Leaves Everyone Smiling. I really hope that this happens to me!
• Jason presents Don’t Be a Self-Righteous Frugalist. Really. Don’t!
• Lazy Man and Money presents Can I Pay Less for Something of Similar Value? That’s exactly how we should think all the time.
• Squawkfox presents eBook: Frugal Food and Fitness: Get fab without spending a fortune. Get your copy today!

Next week the festival travels to Our Four Pence Worth so get your entries in!

Thanks to first time host Frugal Homemaker Plus for putting together a super festival of frugal delights!  Her editor’s picks are:

• Cheap Healthy Good goes over the many valuable lessons that TV’s The Simpsons taught her.
• Daddy Finances gives great advice on how to save money before, during, and after a vacation.
• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity gives strategies on how to avoid the lure of upselling and cross selling. Do you ever walk out of a store with more than you planned on? This post is for you!
• SavingsAdvice.com outlines why she forgoes some of the finer things in life. What do we trade to have all the bling?
• HomeEc 101 gives excellent advice on how to avoid raising a picky eater.

Although I’ll have to beg to differ on the picky eater one - not that the advice isn’t excellent.  :)  But somehow I had a picky eater child from the womb onward…  heh.  I do follow most of the advice given and my other child is not picky, so there is that. 

Next week the festival travels to MoneyNing so get your entries in!