Carnival of Ethics, Values, and Personal Finance #13

Hi there, and welcome to the 13th Carnival of Ethics, Values, and Personal Finance! As most of you know, this carnival is for posts exploring the connections between personal values and financial decisions, and appears every other Thursday.

Editor's Choice:

Take Inventory: Identify Your Spending Values (Baby Step #2) is a great post at Millionaire Mommy Next Door talking about how to identify your values and priorities in order to shape money decisions around them.

Other top posts:

Right-Sized Living, by Toni Tiu at Wifely Steps, explores how to make purchasing choices that are not bigger than you can manage or smaller than you can tolerate, but instead are right for you.

A Fantasy Social Finance Portfolio, by Betsy Teutsch at Money Changes Things, profiles some socially responsible and socially beneficial companies.

House obsession, by Beth Dargis at My Simpler Life, talks about what really makes a house a happy home-- and whether stylish decor and brand-new appliances have us on the wrong trail.

Other posts:

• Business and Ethics
• Steven Silvers presents Despite the PR pundits, there’s not much to learn from the Whole Foods fiasco posted at Scatterbox at stevensilvers.com
• Leon Gettler presents L'Oreal found guilty of racism posted at Sox First.

• Personal Values and Priorities
• Dani presents Nudges from the Universe posted at Living Behind The Curve.
  
• Allen Taylor presents What Are Your Wealth-Building Goals? posted at Investing World Today.
• Warren Wong presents The Life Pursuit Of Money posted at Personal Development for INTJs.

• Misc
  
• Nina Smith presents Outliving your Money: Retiring with HIV posted at Queercents,
• Patrick presents How to Be a Gold-Digger posted at Cash Money Life
• Terry Dean presents From Debt to Financial Freedom posted at Christianity With Purpose

And finally, this carnival gets a lot of off-topic submissions that are either only about personal finance or only about ethics and values-- it's supposed to be both! Most are pretty bad and I usually just delete them. However, the posts below are off-topic but high-quality, so they'll get a temporary reprieve this time around, to remind them and you to include money and values next time:

• Ryan presents 101 Ways to Trim Your Budget posted at Care on Credit.
  
• David Gross presents Moral Courage posted at The Picket Line.
  

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