The Wealth Builder Carnival #135

Welcome to the one hundred thirty-fifth edition of The Wealth Builder Carnival. The purpose of this carnival is to collect articles from the blogosphere on building, preserving and keeping enough wealth for a comfortable retirement. For reference, I have tried to keep the carnival content tightly focused on wealth building and did not include submissions that were off topic. For reading convenience, the posts are listed with a brief summary or comment by the submitter and organized into seven categories: Earning, Insuring and Protecting, Investing, Living Frugally, Retiring, Saving and Taxes.

And now on to the Carnival.

Earning

Super Saver presents Friends, Family and Business posted at My Wealth Builder, saying, "Although my company encouraged marketing to friends and family, I refused to use this sales strategy."

Investing

Dividends4Life presents 4 Dividend Stocks Building Shareholder Returns posted at Dividend Growth Stocks, saying, "Numerous research projects have shown, a conservative dividend growth based investment strategy has consistently outperformed the market over time. My goal as a dividend growth stocks investor is to build a steadily increasing income and not necessarily to outperform the market via capital gains. But given the choice, I certainty don't mind having both..."

Bill Smith presents AIG Earnings Of This Quarter posted at FastSwings, saying, "AIG earnings have improved by a staggering 50% over the past twelve months and a respectable five percent in the past month alone."

John Schmoll presents What Makes a Company Worth Investing In posted at Frugal Rules, saying, "There are many things that you can look at if you’re interested in investing in stocks. By following some of the basics you can start to build a stock portfolio that will serve you well and help set you up for long term needs like retirement."

Living Frugally

Jeff Moore presents 25 Blogs with the Best Tips for Shopping Back to School Deals posted at Babysitting Jobs, saying, "You can often save by shopping completely out of season. Oftentimes, shopping doesn’t even involve leaving your home, as online discounts are plentiful and recycling what you already have is an option, too."

David presents Are Brooks Brothers Shirts Worth it? posted at Financial Nerd, saying, "Describing Analysis that factored into purchasing Brooks Brothers shirts."

Dakota1301 presents What Does Thrifty Mean? posted at NiftyThrifter, saying, "Hi, I wrote this blog so that people can get an idea of what frugality and thrifty are. Hope you enjoy!"

Retiring

Jacob @ My Personal Finance Journey presents Extreme Retirement Saving - Is it For You? posted at My Personal Finance Journey, saying, "This post explores what is "extreme retirement saving" and whether or not the strategy is right for you."

Taxes

Daniel presents My Letter To The IRS Disputing Their Insufficient Funds Charge posted at Sweating The Big Stuff, saying, "The IRS took $210 out of my refund. Here is my response requesting them to review and reconsider."


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

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