This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is hosted by Quest for Four Pillars, who lives in Canada. Guess what picture will greet you when you go to the showcase? Bob and Doug Mackenzie giving you a toast. We can imagine they’re toasting to the bloggers’ collective wisdom about personal finance!

Here are some posts from the showcase:

• Squakfox presents Ten Financial Lessons I Learned from My Dog. “Tivo has an emergency fund. She likes to bury bones and smelly things in the backyard for a rainy day. Her little buried collection kinda scares me, but in many ways I can understand why her emergency dig or fund is of importance.”
• Blunt Money presents Good News! You’re standing in your own way: “We can always look for alternatives, once we open our eyes to the possibilities. If you really had to, how COULD you do those things you “can’t” do?”
• The Coin Jar presents A breakthrough: We’re staying in our townhouse. “As a young girl, she always envisioned marriage and family life with having a house and a yard in a neighborhood—a far cry from our multi-unit, parking lot-covered townhouse complex. She also knows we could afford that house if she returned to full-time teaching, a job she loves, is good at and well-paid for…”
• Marc and Angel presents 11 Practical Ways to Spend Your Money: “… when you do decide to spend your hard earned money it should be spent on something practical, useful, and meaningful to the wellbeing of your existence. So many people either save their money or blow it on worthless crap.”