Welcome to the Saturday Roundup of Credit Withdrawal posts and other interesting posts around the blogosphere. It was a pretty quiet week, weather starting to warm up. This week I contributed to the M-Network and friends’ "Home Finance: All you need to know about home ownership" series, and a few other newer blogs I’ve started following.

From Credit Withdrawal this week

• Feb 01: How to Avoid Foreclosure – The Definitive Guide (10)
• Jan 31: Update on the Financial Goals (5) 
• Jan 30: The Fed Dropped the Discount Rate,.. AGAIN (0)
• Jan 30: The New Social Security Debit Card – Benefits and Drawbacks (9)
• Jan 29: Being Frugal isn’t Being a Miser (2)
• Jan 28: Are You Afraid of Money? (11)

I forgot to participate in any carnivals last week. Going to have to do something about that this week.

Blog Spotlight:

The Blog Spotlight is where I single out the best blog entry I’ve come across each week, along with a short description of why I liked it. This week is;

Moolanomy – The Big Rocks of Life 

I heard this before, but with a student and a beer at the end. Pinyo’s version is just as good, if not better though. You need to plan for the big stuff, but don’t forget the small stuff either. It’ll all fit in if you try.

And from around the Personal Finance Blogs (Favorites *)

• **Money: Managed – Marry for Love, Divorce Over Cash: 10 Ways Frugal Living Will Bring You and Your Partner Closer (Isn’t that what this is all about anyway?!??)
• *Green Panda Treehouse – Money is Like French Fries (Mmm, French Fries, nom, nom, nom!)
• *DebtFREE Revolution – The Borrower is SLAVE to the Lender
• *Cash Money Life – The Importance of Delayed Gratification
• Being Frugal – 75 Frugal Hacks for Your Home
• Brip Blap – Credit Card Debt is not Pandemic
• Debt Kid – What I think about 24/7
• Gather Little By Little – Gazelle intensity vacations to avoid burnout
• Money Blue Book – Paying $4,000 For Super Bowl Tickets May Be Crazy, But Possibly Worth The Memories That Will Last A Lifetime
• Money Ning – Retirement Quiz Reveals How Much Help We Need
• Mrs Micah – Who Gets Your Services for Free?
• My Dollar Plan – Stay Home or Go Back to Work: The Results
• My Two Dollars – My Thoughts On The $100 Billion Dollar Fiscal Stimulus Package. (Harsh, but true)
• Plonkee Money – working on Feeling Poor (Hang in there Plonkee, With friends like us, you’re never ‘poor’!)
• Rocket Finance – We are heading in the right direction (I think)
• The Dough Roller – Social Security is worth $225,000 for a typical retiree
• The Wisdom Journal – 7 Bad Decisions That Cost Me Over $1,000 Each
• Two Wise Acres – U.S. Foreclosure Activity Increased 75% in 2007 (And I’m thinking it’s not over yet!)
• Working for Financial Freedom – The Reduce a Bill Challenge is Back! (Join in Now!!)

Wrap-up of the Home Finance: All you need to know about Home Ownership series:

• My Thoughts On This Whole Mortgage Crisis And Why I Don’t Feel That Bad @ My Two Dollars
• Why renting is right for us right now @ Mrs. Micah
• Why We Have an Adjustable Rate Mortgage @ My Dollar Plan
• Debt-To-Income Ratio and Why It Matters @ Moolanomy
• Catch a Falling Knife – Buying the Housing Slump @ Millionaire Money Habits
• Can we afford the Payments @ PaidTwice
• Pay off Credits Cards with a HELOC @ Debt Free Revolution
• So You Want to Buy a Fixer Upper @ Remodeling This Life
• Frugal Hacks For Your Home @ Being Frugal
• American Subprime Crisis—Should We Care @ Plonkee Money
• Mortgage escrow accounts Explained @ Cash Money Life
• Don’t Use Your House to Pay for Your Life @ Rocket Finance
• Why the Sub-Prime Crises has not Affected Canada Yet @ Four Pillars
• That Damned Rent vs. Buy Question @ Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
• Predatory Mortgage Lending and the Subprime Market @ Chance Favors
• After Foreclosure Guide to Housing: It Ain’t Easy @ DebtKid
• How to Avoid Foreclosure – The Definitive Guide @ Credit Withdrawal