The Carnival of Snowflaking is up at Dreaming of Ferraris! Foxie did a great job of interspersing facts about actual snowflakes (the cold frozen kind) in her carnival. her two editor’s picks were posts I’d highlighted here before:

• Brip Blap: Wealthstreaming, Or Snowflaking For Income
• Five Cent Nickel:  Reducing Your Debt With Micropayments

Stay tuned for next week as the carnival travels to My Small Cents!  Get those entries in and thanks for a great carnival Foxie!

One of the newer blogs to the Snowflake Revolution, Waiting For The Great Leap Forward, has recently started snowflaking and shares how she started.  It illustrates a great point that is often overlooked - it doesn;t matter how you start snowflaking, just that you start.  Thanks!

If you’ve been thinking about snowflaking but don’t know where to start - stop waiting.  Just take some money, any money, and start.  You’ll be glad you did!

When my spending was a little less tightly reined in, I frequently fell victim to the seduction of impulse shopping. I never meant to by things not on my list, but I would be in a store, something would look good, and it would end up going home with me. Nothing huge, but little things, as illustrated time and time again, do indeed add up.

I developed a small hack for myself to keep my impulse spending in check. This basically required me to pay for anything I bought on impulse twice - once with cash when I bought it, and then when I got home, I would make a credit card payment in the exact amount of that impulse purchase. If I wanted something bad enough to pay for it twice, I figured I could get it. This, combined with stopping going to stores just to see what they might have on clearance (I still miss you Target!) really reined in my impulse spending and put me on track to a better financial future.

But the flip side of that coin is that all that paying twice? Was a source of snowflakes to help whittle down my debt total even faster than I did originally. Now that my credit card is paid off, and I am focusing on our student loan, I have fallen out of the paying twice habit. But paying twice for impulse buys can still be done to a loan you can’t pay to as frequently as you want - it just involves putting those snowflakes into a savings account designated for the purpose first.

So if you have an impulsive side, harness that side for good. Use it to generate snowflakes for yourself to meet your saving, debt reduction, or investment goals. You’ll be surprised how quickly they add up!

Carnival of Snowflaking #3 was at Antishay Ventenne this week and included some great snowflaking stories and strategies!  The three editors picks were:

• Finance Gets Personal: My Co-Worker Debbie’s Old-School “Keep the Change” Program
• My Daily Dollars: Spending My Way to a Snowflake
• Pennywise and Pound Foolish:  Sell the truck, retire early
  

Thanks for hosting Shanti!  The carnival travels to Foxie’s Ferarri Dream next week so get your entries in!

Today’s tip is less of a tip and more showing snowflaking going mainstream. In the past few days, three “high profile” blogs mentioned snowflaking in one of their posts, either offhandedly or building their own spin into it. Check out these spinoffs and continuations of the snowflaking concept:

• Lazy Man and Money: Snowforting - Snowflaking the Emergency Fund
• Brip Blap: Wealthstreaming - Snowflaking Income
• Five Cent Nickel: Micropayments

Vive le Revolution! Snowflaking will be in the dictionary before we know it and will be a word everyone just knows the meaning of. Now to get these people to enter the Carnival of Snowflaking…

The Carnival of Snowflaking is continuing as scheduled this Thursday, making its way to Antishay Ventenne.  However, Blog Carnival, the service that collects the entries, has been having continuing issues for the past week.  If Blog Carnival is down when you try to submit your entry, entries can be directly submitted to the carnival by emailing them to snowflakerevolution at gmail dot com.

However!  To make things as simple as possible for the host, please include the following information with your entry:

• Title of Blog
• Your screen name
• Your email address
• Link to entry
• Title of entry
• Any comments to the host about your entry

If you do not include this information and simply send a link, it may be ignored.

Thank you for your continued support and interest in snowflaking and get those carnival entries in by Wednesday morning!

The second edition of the Carnival of Snowflaking is up at My Daily Dollars!  With only 5 entries explicitly tied to snowflaking, the carnival is short but sweet and definitely worth a read!  To encourage visits to the carnival, I’ll refrain from repeating the entries here, but mention that Snowflake Revolution’s entry about Income Generation Snowflakes was included.  Thanks!

Next week the carnival travels to Antishay Ventenne - get those snowflake entries in!