Welcome to the Manifesting Wealth in 2009 Edition of the Carnival of Money Stories.

If you think it, it will come…
New Studies in Neurobiology & Quantum Physics say so.

This week’s carnival has many great articles!  Be sure to visit the carnival’s website, and check out some of the great blogs of this week’s entrants.  Please link the post to your social bookmarks if you like it.

Editor’s Picks

The Dough Roller presents How to Avoid the Infuriating Cost of Disorganization posted at The Dough Roller, saying, “Here’s a story from Mrs. Dough on how disorganization can cost you a lot of money.”  A very entertaining read, indeed!  I confess, my desk has come pretty close to looking like the one in the picture at this post.

Pinyo Bhulipongsanon presents Should You Repair Old Appliance Or Buy A New One? posted at Moolanomy.  Great post if you’re in the market for a new appliance, and great blog, anyway, if you’re not.

Business

Mark presents The Five I’s of Building Wealth posted at Smart Money.

Credit

Credit Shout presents Spotting Fraudulent Credit Card Charges on Your Credit Report posted at CreditShout

Mr Credit Card presents Outrageous Credit Card Practices posted at Ask Mr Credit Card

It’s human nature to require explanations about everything.  Thus, many ancient beliefs were often drenched in mysticism, until their true causes could be ferreted out through scientific research.

Debt

Jason Patrick presents Getting out of credit card debt. My story. posted at MoneyTheory, saying, “My story of getting out of $17,000 of credit card debt in 2 years.”

Michael Bass presents Does Debt Validation Actually Work? posted at Debt Prison, saying, “A recent reader at Sample Debt Validation Letter questioned as to whether or not requesting debt validation would prevent a collection agency from pursuing a judgment. Since his debts were nearly past the Statute of Limitations he was hoping to prevent payment and a possible appearance in civil court.”

For example, the ancient Greeks explained the forces of nature, disease, and human emotion through their Gods.  Today, we know that natural disasters have causes.  We have medicines and vaccines for many of those once unexplainable diseases - such as influenza and small pox. And human emotion is slowly being broken down into a series of hormonal and chemical reactions.

General

FIRE Getters presents FIRE Finance: Lottery Tickets - Our route to Wealth? - A Top Personal Finance and Investing Blog for Early Retirement and Money Management! posted at FIRE Finance

Polly Poorhouse presents Economic Crunch: Another Mortgage Story posted at Economic Crunch, saying, “A man, a woman and a mortgage.”

MoneyNing presents Value Added Tax Refund (VAT) for Vacation Shopping posted at Money Ning, saying, “Remember not to leave money on the table!”

Jim presents Researching A Refinance posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

nickel@fivecentnickel.com presents Airport Car Rentals are a Ripoff posted at Money Tipper.

J. Savings presents New Year’s Resolutions - Did i actually accomplish something? posted at Budgets are Sexy., saying, “For once in my life i followed through w/ my resolutions! All about picking things you’re passionate about i suppose :)”

The Happy Rock presents Christmas Came Early for the Debt Destroyer Household posted at The Happy Rock

Miss M presents Gifts from the Heart, not the Wallet posted at M is for Money

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Are You In Financial Trouble? Money Tips To Cope With Hard Times posted at The Digerati Life

In much the same way, the mystical powers of manifestation are slowly being grounded with scientific evidence. New research tools allowing scientists to follow brain reaction patterns have discovered that you can, indeed, remap your brain.  How?  Through the power of believing and visualization.

Investing

JCL presents Househunting For Investment Properties posted at The Real Estate Investing Journey, saying, “A story of how we search for our next investment house.”

FMF presents Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Great Investments posted at Free Money Finance, saying, “One employee makes a fortune from a company perk.”

millionaireblog presents Act quick if you want to buy Gold or Silver posted at millionaire blog .co.uk, saying, “Now is the time to invest in bullion. Learn how to start investing in Gold. You may be surprised to hear that you don’t need to be rich to invest in Gold.”

Dorian Wales presents The Madoff scheme – 4 Valuable Lessons posted at The Personal Financier, saying, “As always scandals present valuable lessons for us household investors”

Net Worth

Raymond presents Review Of E*Trade Bank High Interest Savings and Checking Accounts posted at Money Blue Book

Pamela Grundy presents You are Greater than the Sum of Your Investments posted at Personal Finance Analyst.

Experiments following brain activities during focused thought and visualization have shown that we can remap our brain circuitry - create new neural pathways -  for what we wish to manifest, by repeatedly thinking about and visualizing our goals in a focused way. Conversely, unwanted pathways can be quieted by ignoring them.

Diagram of a Neuron Cell

Other

Wenchypoo presents Santa, All I Want for Christmas is a Decent-Sized, Decent-Priced House posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket, saying, “Real estate”

SingleGuyMoney presents Another Home Foreclosure In My Neighborhood posted at Single Guy Money

Ryan Suenaga presents Forwarding Services: Worth it? posted at Uncommon Cents.

Debt Free Destiny presents Should Mom and Dad Get an Allowance? posted at Debt Free Destiny

The Smarter Wallet presents Nintendo Wii Review, Video Game System Pros and Cons posted at The Smarter Wallet, saying, “I’m a big gamer, but I wanted to through the pros and cons of an item before paying up for it. Here was my thought process.”

Mary@SimplyForties presents Having a Hard Time Getting Life Insurance? posted at SimplyForties, saying, “It’s not as easy as the commercials make it seem!” Madeleine Begun Kane presents Banks To Taxpayers: Drop Dead! posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of money stories using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Manifestation sound interesting?  For further reading on the science behind the power of visualization and manifestation, see my amazone widget in the sidebar.  A little blatant monetizing here.  If you click on the link from my website, and decide to buy the book, Amazon gives me 4% commission.  I’v’ also included some very powerful older reads on visualization, and finally a few spiritual/mystical takes on the subject.

Happy New Year!!!!  Now go manifest!!!

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