I met some interesting bloggers last week at the blogging conference held by Consumer Reports; all of them, of course, writes six thousand times better than me.

Here are some blogs worthy of your RSS reader, pick and subscribe at your choosing:

• Erin Doland from Uncluttered.com, a blog about getting and staying organized. Emailing link to sister ASAP.
• Kim O’Donnel at A Mighty Appetite, a cooking blog filled with yummy recipes. Also emailing link to sister.
• Edgar Dworsky of Consumer Worlds, who also blogs at Mouse Print, a blog exposing the nasty catches buried in the fine prints.
• Zac Bissonnette, writer and editor at BloggingStocks and WalletPop. One of the other personal finance blogger at the conference. He was alright. (Just kidding he’s cool).
• Leslie Price, editor at Racked.com, a witty NYC retail and shopping blog. From the blog’s words: “If they’ll take your money, we’ll tell you about it.”
• The gang from Consumerist.com, where shoppers bites back and gives the middle finger to crappy businesses. Most likely already on your blog reader, and if it isn’t, it should be.
• Although I didn’t get to meet the blog editors, Consumer Reports also have a daily posting Money and Shopping blog that you may be interested in checking out.

And finally, here’s a picture of a T. rex from the American Museum of Natural History:

Wrote a post on the total cost of an iPhone, Pet, Car, and “Other Things” (other things being your kid and your house) on the Mint Blog.

I thought about going pretty analytical with the numbers, pouring over the usual stuff like opportunity cost, if you had saved the money and invest it at blah blah instead, you’ll get four gazillion dollar from forgoing your latte. Or something like that.

But then I went ahead and just sort of preached my opinion on personal finance — depsite the site name, it’s okay to spend money (responsibly)! Read the post to find out more.

I’ve also hosted the 109th Carnival of Personal Finance. And boy… that took a longer time to put together than I thought. All I really did was organize links, write/edit brief descrption for some of the submissions… and it took almost 7 hours? I now have a new-found appreciation for past carnival host, and will never do it again.

Now that I think about it… it probably took awhile because I had to pour through all the entry to find their first post. It was a pretty good idea, till I was three hours into it looking up stuff.

I probably shouldn’t mention this, but next week will be the return of the Stop Buying Crap series. Care to take a guess on what Stop Buying Crap #20 will be?

Can’t believe I forgot to mention it on this blog, but the second anniversary (aww… it’s already been two years) of the Carnival of Personal Finance can be found at Get Rich Slowly.

J.D. did an excellent job with this edition, highlighting some of the recent best in the personal finance blogsphere. There were lots of great post, but I’ll just reiterate the picks that I mentioned on Mint’s blog (since they’re so awesome):

• Jenifer from Broke-Ass-Student wrote an in-depth post on how to fight against collection agency.
• Stephanie at Poorer Than You shared some great money advice for college students.
• Golbguru from Money, Matter, and More Musings wrote a very interesting post on making efforts to communicate our financial knowledge to our partner or family members.

Check out the above post, or I’ll make you eat cat doo-doo.

Or not.

Gotta point to my own goods:

• What Is A Sound Financial Lifestyle? What Seventeen Bloggers Think And Why You Should Choose to Live It
• Six Steps to Teaching Your Child Better Money Skills

I gotta say, I don’t usually do one of those “here are some post I wrote that you may have missed” type of post, but in this case, you most likely have missed these post written by me, as they weren’t even posted on this blog.

General Finances:

• 21 Spiffy Ways to Reduce Your Expenses
• HOWTO: Stash Your Cash at the Right Places
• The Four Terrible Money Mistakes We Make With Our Kids

Credit Related (yes I love credit too much):

• Credit Scores: Yes, You Should Give a Damn About Them!
• HOWTO: Jump Start Your Credit While You’re Young in Five Easy Step
• Don’t Let Credit Cards Own You During Your College Years
• HOWTO: Be Savvy With Credit Card Balance Transfer Offers

So yeah, there’s quite a few of them. If you subscribe to this blog, you may be interested in subscribing to the Mint’s Blog too — after all, it’s managed by the same loser cool guy :)

Here’s an enjoyable read from Money Musings, “Expensive Products That Were Crap.”

My favorite?

3. Anything I ever bought with the word SONY on it.

For those that don’t know (and that’s probably most of you), the Mint’s blog is giving away free personal finance books — if your financial fubar stories gets selected for our Tuesday Train Wreck series (best comment also gets a free book too).

A free book for sharing my most embarrassing financial mishap to the rest of the world?

I am so in. (Stories are posted anonymously).

So which personal finance book will you get?

You’ll get to choose from a list, but the problem is I’m compiling that list and so far I only got two off the top of my head:

1. The Millionaire Next Door
2. The Richest Man in Babylon
3. Your Money or Your Life (thanks Dave)
4. All Your Worth (thanks Bmore)
5. duh…

If you have any suggestions for a good personal finance book, throw them my way please.

Everytime I post an update on the Carnival of Personal Finance, I am amazed at the progress it has made through the years. To think that when I first read about it from Flexo’s email, I thought it wouldn’t last over a month!

This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is hosted at All Financial Matters.

Today’s pick is from the creator of the carnival: “Should High Schools Require Money Management Classes?” from Consumerism Commentary. This is a great topic that I’ve been meaning to talk about too. Check it out and join in on the discussion.