Star Money Articles and Carnivals for the Week of Dec 5

Here are some pieces I found especially worthwhile and some of the carnivals Free Money Finance was in this week. We'll start with links from sites who contributed to my FMF $20k Red Kettle Challenge (please consider giving if you haven't already):

• The Financial Mentor has a retirement calculator for you.

Now here are the carnivals:

• EDITOR'S CHOICE! Totally Money Blog Carnival
• Carnival of Personal Finance 
• Carnival of Wealth
• Festival of Frugality

And some other great posts:

• The Sun’s Financial Diary offers some inexpensive holiday gift ideas.
• Lazy Man and Money muses about kids and college.
• BripBlap has thoughts on early retirement.
• My Dollar Plan gives some tax planning tips.
• Money Smart Life details mutual fund cost basis rules.
• The Digerati Life covers Christmas spending trends.

Enjoy!

P.S. Carnival Hosts -- If my post is in your carnival in a given week, please send me the URL to the carnival and I will include it in my weekly roundup.