The 99th Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Money, Matter, and More Musings – this is the Awesome Money Quotes Edition. My article about No Gas Day made the Travel and Vacation section. Here are some of the posts I most enjoyed from the carnival:

The Coin Jar’s oldest daughter, a sophomore in college, is already on her way to becoming a millionaire, with no student debt, $1,600 in a Roth IRA and time aplenty ahead of her: My daughter’s millionaire dreams aren’t far from reality.

Juan at Millionster just isn’t going to stand for his apartment hiking up the rent: Dear Apartment, You’re Charging Me Too Much For Rent!

Fire Finance reveals direct deposit’s dirty secret – your employer can take money out of your account as well! Direct Deposit to Bank Account – Handle With Care!

Thanks to Golbguru for hosting this edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance!

I flew home on the red eye last night, and I’m battling some wicked jet lag right now. It’s taken me a five hour nap and three hours of staring blankly at my computer screen to get to the point where I feel I can actually write something intelligible. Regardless, this might end up unintelligible anyway.

I’ve agreed to try my hand at hosting the Carnival of Credit Report Stories on Monday, April 30th. If you have a blog and a story about credit, credit scores, or credit reports, please submit it to me using the carnival submission form. I’d really like some good entries for my first carnival!

Also, if you wouldn’t mind spreading the word about the carnival on your blog, that would be helpful as well. When the boys over at Millionster hosted the carnival, they made this cute chicklet for promoting it:

If you’d like to use it as well, please upload it to your own server. And get those submissions in by 5PM Eastern on Sunday the 29th, please!

This here is a head’s up to my fellow bloggers: my boys over at Millionster are going to be hosting the Carnival of Credit Report Stories on Monday, and since it’s still a baby in the Blog Carnival world (this will only be the third edition!), they need your help!

So if you have an article about credit reports or credit scores, head over there and submit it! They even made this cute little chicklet for the occasion:

So if you’ve got something already, submit it, or maybe consider writing something for the occasion. I’m working on an article for it, which I will be posting tomorrow. Oh, I know, the anticipation is killing you. =)

Well, the latest Carnival of Personal Finance is up, and it’s a doozy! My post, Money Advice for the College Student, Part III is included. I was on the fence about whether I should post Part I or Part III. I have been told that Part III is the strongest, so that’s why I chose to go with that – but I think the whole thing is worth reading, because I wrote it the way I carry on conversations with my friends about finance: find out what already know, calm any fears, and then share what I know.

Here are other articles featured in the Carnival that I enjoyed:

War on the War on the Middle Class – If you want to get ahead, stop trying to keep up with the Jones!

When There Isn’t Enough Money To Get What You Want – When the money isn’t there to pay for something, you have three choices.

Woman’s Good Financial Sense Leads to Windfall – A woman decides to sell a family heirloom to pay for her daughter’s education, and her good intentions end up bringing her much more than she expected!

Love Hurts, The Hidden Cost of Girlfriends sparked the rebuttal: The Hidden Cost of Having a Boyfriend (you guys cracked me up!)

How To Fight Back Against Collection Agencies came at the perfect time for me – my mom just got a letter from a collection agency, and she has no idea what the debt is that they’re referring to.

How To Set Up a Savings Snowball – what a great idea! I think anyone who finishes with the debt snowball (or starts debt free, you lucky ducks!) should do this!

Why Aren’t We All Wealthy (Yet)? answers the question that snarky commenters plague Personal Finance bloggers with: “If you know so much, why aren’t you filthy rich yet?”

Top 5 Ways to Hustle Free Drinks – with my 21st birthday less than 7 months away, I’ll be practicing these! *wink*

And there’s tons of other great articles listed, of course. I just got sick of keeping so many Firefox tabs open so that I could write this entry!