Personal Finance Round Up, Mentions and Carnivals #49 + MORE

Happy Saturday everyone! I had to write this post early in the week because they’re calling for 60 degree weather this weekend and I’ll likely be outside enjoying the nice weather! We had a fairly good winter, overall, but the cold and snow over the last month delayed some of the things we would like to have been doing by now…

*This is an interruption from your normally scheduled round up post!*
I’m in the second round of the Free Money Finance March Madness competition! This round has been tough and I could really need every vote I can get to advance to the next round! Please go to this post and comment “Decision” to vote for my post…

This weekend link love is brought to you by Easter, where candy that I should not be eating abounds.

First some blog news:

Part 1 of my primer on dividend growth investing was mentioned in Dividend Growth Stock Investing’s March Links.
Part 2 of my primer on dividend growth stocks was mentioned in Passive Income Pursuit’s weekly roundup and by Brick By Brick Investing’s Wealth Building Bricks #8…

A recent study has shed some light on the credit-card debt that many folks might carry in their jeans. Oops! I mean genes. The news relates that it’s a groundbreaking finding that you carry a specific gene variant that can predict your “appetite” to rack up credit-card debt. [Some folks do have appetite for credit-card …

My wife and I have been looking for ways to cut back our expenses when it comes to our regular monthly bills, and by and large we’ve been pretty successful in doing that.  We’ve been able to reduce our homeowners and auto insurance by almost $850 a year, dropped our netflix subscription since we also had Amazon Prime as well as getting a discount on our satellite TV package…

As a novice investor, I have had to look to someone to provide me with great advice on how to jump start my investment portfolio.  I decided to look to the best and brightest investor that we all know of, Warren Buffett.  I don’t think I need to introduce him because I am sure you all know who I am talking about…

I realize that when you look at this title you’re probably thinking, ‘Roger, it’s not April yet.  Heck, it’s not even the end of March. Why are you doing your Net Worth post now?’ Well, hypothetical reader, the short answer goes something like this: Tomorrow is Easter, and the following day is April Fool’s Day (which I’ve used my Net Worth Update for fun in the past)…