Festival of Funny Financials: #1

Welcome to the first annual Festival of Funny Financials! The funniest people are often the smartest ones in the room, the ones who understand an issue well enough to see the humor in it. I was impressed by the wit of our submitters this week, and felt they had a lot of wise commentary layered underneath the laughs. It affirmed my desire to get this carnival up and running. We need to take our finances seriously, but if a blogger can make us smile as we read along, it keeps our interest, and we get that much more out of the experience.

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Here are the submitters to the first Festival of Funny Financials! I honestly had a difficult time picking my favorite out the posts sent to me. Several of these sat for a moment in the honored "best of" spot, but in the end, I had a real LOL moment when I checked out The Digerati Life's post on people who make more money than she does via AdSense. Dude, we all here 'ya! Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the genuine laugh!

This paragraph is actually an addendum to the post, because I finished writing everything at midnight on Saturday and got a post a few hours later. I thought the story deserved a bit of a highlight. Art Thailand sent this post about his experience trying to get his business up and running. It details his struggles with the amazingly complicated Thai banking system, and the trials he faced in website development. I thought I would stop reading this at several points, but my eyes got wider and wider as I traveled down the page. Give it time.

Back to the original post!

Millionaire Mommy Next Door has the funnest article of the bunch, a piece that laments the author's inability to downsize her lifestyle, despite the desire to go green. This was written as a guest post by a certain Paige Anderson-Torgrimson. Along the same lines of eco-frustration, 21'st Century Citizen almost looses his eco-lunch to the new eco-craze, apparently a little ticked about Paris Hilton's less-than-genuine attempts to save the world. Finally, Money Is The Way gives us some humorous insight about how bankers are going crazy, but it's all good.

Another addendum! Eh, I'm new. I guess I have to wait until the next day to start the big post. Teaspoon Finance explains their financial faux pax when they describe how they ended up paying $250 for a financial book, "given" to them by a friend too into day trading...

A few people sent me some lists that were just damn clever, and should give you a smile. College and Finance has this list of 32 weird scholarships almost anyone can get, although I don't think anyone could get them in one place with his fun insights! Ask The Advisor gets a guffaw for coming up with ten fictitious credit cards, along with terms of use and applicable APRs, and PowerWealth takes a moment to explains three simple steps to become dirt poor! I think I had him for a financial advisor, once. To finish off the first Festival, Currency Trading gives a well-written smiler detailing 11 reasons poker players make great Forex traders.

That's all for the first festival! I was very happy with the quality of the entries! I'm going to keep this biweekly until I get the hang of things, and then I'll probably make things weekly. Feel free to submit, and because humor is timeless, I'm happy to take backdated posts. Thanks for checking out the first edition of The Festival of Funny Financials and as always, I am Indebted2You!