Great Reads On My Radar Today

Welcome to the How To Save Money Radar!

This is where you will find a new approach to connecting you with some of the best quality articles on the internet about saving money and personal finance. Many bloggers publish links posts to share content written by other bloggers with their readers, but the focus is almost exclusively on new articles from the past week. My approach is to scour my favourite blogs and even ask the bloggers themselves for the absolute best content they have produced since their blog’s inception.

Why do this? Because many bloggers have the most passion in the early days of their blogs before they gain popularity but those articles quickly get buried in their archives never to be read or linked to again. Now I’m digging it all up so you guys get to read the best possible stuff that you never would have seen otherwise. Enjoy!

Great Articles You Should Read Now

• Mrs January made a practical guide to Canadian coupons so that you can learn how to become an extreme couponer in no time!
• Retire By Forty ironically wrote an article on how to retire by 40 and turns out it’s pretty good!
• Krant Cents suggests 10 changes you can make that could end up being worth millions of dollars.
• Frugal Under Forty wrote a nice piece on the importance of cash flow and how people often steal money from themselves without even realizing it.
• Daily Money Shot has come up with an amusing article on what watching Roseanne has taught them about money.

One Of My Own Articles You May Have Missed

The Aeroplan rewards program is one of the most popular rewards programs in Canada and it seems almost all Canadians are collectors. However, not all Canadians truly understand how get the most out of their points and that their rewards selection can impact the monetary value they receive for those points. I have written a 4 page guide to Aeroplan that should get your earning more points and getting the most out of your points ASAP.

Some Recent Articles That Were Actually Top Notch

There are some gems to be found among the rough of recently published articles as well. Here are a few that I particularly enjoyed.

• Prairie EcoThrifter compiled a massive list of 101 ways to use vinegar and it is extensive to say the least!
• Good Financial Cents talks about how being a quitter made him more of a success.
• Young And Thrifty takes a shot at how she thinks discount brokers have changed the stock market.

Carnivals I’ve Been In Since Last Time

Since I haven’t really posted about carnivals I’ve been a part of before, there will be a lot of them this time. Next time there should be much less.

• Canadian Finance Carnival #60
• Yakezie Carnival October 30, 2011 – Halloween Edition
• Carnival Of Financial Camaraderie # 5
• Carnival of Financial Planning - Edition #208 - October 29, 2011
• Canadian Finance Carnival #59
• Yakezie Carnival October 24, 2011 – Just Do It Edition
• Canadian Finance Carnival #58
• The “Holidays Are Coming” Edition – Best Of Money Carnival
• Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition
• Best Of The Blogs: Road Kill Edition
• Best This Week from Personal Finance Blogs
• Yakezie Carnival – October 9th, 2011 Edition
• Canadian Finance Carnival #57
• Best of The Blogs: Thanksgiving Edition

Submit Your Own Articles

If you have your own blog and would like to submit your articles for my consideration you can do so using this form. Please only submit your top quality material though as I will only be linking to those articles that have the right stuff!