Welcome to the Carnival of Snowflaking, First Edition!

Apr 24, 2008 Author: paidtwice | Filed under: Business

Welcome to the very first Carnival of Snowflakes! I am paidtwice, and I founded the Snowflake Revolution to help promote the concept of snowflaking and provide a way for people to encourage each other to make positive financial choices and reinforce each other. I am delighted to continue fostering that attitude with the very first Carnival of Snowflaking - a place for people to share their snowflaking successes, challenges, and attitudes.

First up, my Editors Picks. It was a tough call, but I’ve chosen 3 of the entries as great examples of the spirit of snowflaking:

My Small Cents talks about her journey to becoming a snowflaker with Learning To Snowflake.
My Daily Dollars shows us that its all in how you look at things with Snowflake State of Mind.
Antishay Ventenne outlines how you too can build side income and use it to snowflake with An Honest Guide to Building Up Snowflakes [side income]. She also has this post available as a podcast.

Now, here are some excellent snowflake successes!

Nine Circles finds snowflakes in her jewelry box with Snowflakes of Gold.
All Things Frugal takes the first step to become a snowflaker with Snowflake Revolution.
How I Save Money outlines her snowflake status and how far she’s come with State of the Credit Cards.
Sometimes just getting things together enough to list things on an auction site to sell is a success in itself. Sick of Being Poor gets ready for the snowflakes to roll in with Craigslist Experience-Earning Extra Snowflakes.

Snowflaking can also come with its share of Challenges:

Sometimes it is hard to see the forest for the trees. Tales From The Road Less Traveled works on the snowflaking mentality with Snowflaking, sort of.

Snowflaking is more than a concept, it is an Attitude:

Remodeling This Life shows that snowflaking is about more than just money with Snowflake Your Way to a Better Self.
Finance Gets Personal reminds us that often, we snowflaked ourselves into debt with My Credit Card Debt: An Example of Reverse Snowflaking.

Finally, there are many Methods to applying snowflaking:

Debt Non Sequitur gives ways and places to find those snowflakes with How To Find Snowflakes.
Dreaming of Ferraris shows that you can concentrate on multiple goals simultaneously with Snowflaking to Multiple Goals.
My Retirement Blog wants you to remember that retirement is important too with Snowflake Your Way To Retirement
Greener Pastures Personal Finance explains where their money goes and what to do about it with Cha-Ching Spending.
Rocket Finance shows how he finds snowflakes with bank bonuses with $250 worth of snowflake money with Chase Freedom.

And I couldn’t resist an entry from my finance site, since I love snowflaking so much:

I’ve Paid For This Twice Already provides 10 Can’t Miss Ways To Kickstart Snowflaking - try one!

Thanks for participating in and reading the first Carnival of Snowflaking! Next week it travels to My Daily Dollars, see you there!

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17 Responses for "Welcome to the Carnival of Snowflaking, First Edition!"

Emily April 24th, 2008 at 7:41 am 1

Great job!! Can’t wait to check all these out! Thanks for including me!
The First Carnival of Snowflakes! | Antishay Ventenne April 24th, 2008 at 8:02 am 2

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Shanti @ Antishay April 24th, 2008 at 8:18 am 3

Hurrah! Thanks for including my post!

I’m glad you included your own post at the end. After all, I found your blog after back-and-forth commenting with Lynnae… I practically SAW her roll her eyes when I mentioned snowflaking for the umpteenth time and she directed me to your blog You are the queen in that respect. Which would make sense, considering this blog here and this carnival.

…Waaaay off on a tangent. Thanks for the carnival!
Momma April 24th, 2008 at 8:34 am 4

Thanks for including me in your first snowflaking carnival! This concept really resonates with me and I have enjoyed how effortless it has been to implement.

I think you’re creating snowstorms!
My Daily Dollars April 24th, 2008 at 8:53 am 5

Thanks for a great carnival. I’m looking forward to hosting the next one. Let the snowflake joy continue!
Greener Pastures April 24th, 2008 at 9:52 am 6

Great First Edition! Thanks for including my article!

Lisa
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lulugal11 April 24th, 2008 at 10:31 am 8

thanks for including me in the carnival. I am now heading off to read each of the posts that I have not read before to see what goes on with their snowflaking.

This looks great.
sickofbeingpoor April 24th, 2008 at 4:39 pm 9

Thanks for including me. It was through your blog that I realized snowflaking had a name and that other people used it.
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Great first Carnival Paid Twice. Thanks for putting it together
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