Money and Values is hosting the May 19 edition of Carnival of Personal Finance.

I like the format Penny Nickel set up, it’s a Q&A column this week. “Find answers to questions you might not have even known you wanted to ask…”

Here are some of the posts you’ll find from the more than 100 bloggers who participated:

• Where Does All My Money Go? presents The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition: “Small print leads to large risk. … You can’t make a deal if you’re dead.” The Ferengi are the “business breed / capitalists ” of Star Trek aliens and therefore their interactions with other species can provide plenty of fodder for busines discussions. By the way, my husband and I used to be very involved in Star Trek fan club activities, including working on staff for some Cleveland, Ohio, fan conventions in the 1990s.
• Riding with Rickey presents A Memo from the Office of Steven R. Lawlor, CPA, to Indiana Jones: “It is exceedingly difficult for our accounting personnel to review your Form 1040 when it is mailed to us in a leather bound diary and written entirely in Aramaic.” I have a hunch this post is going to be e-mailed around quite a bit. But when you do forward the piece, do the proper thing and give Rickey a byline credit and linkback!
• All About the Ben presents Slash your energy costs with these 6 money saving tips: “You don’t need to rush out and buy a smaller car if you’re not ready to replace your existing vehicle. Rather, choose the smaller of your vehicles whenever you can.” My parents have long owned one big vehicle (station wagon, minivan or SUV) along with one small vehicle (usually a stick-shift compact car), and trade off as needed. This arrangement works really well.
• Blunt Money presents Student loans are not ‘good debt.’: “Not everyone who attends college (or graduates) ends up with a good job afterwards, let alone a job that’s high-paying enough to quickly pay off student loans. This happens for a variety of reasons.” I financed my college education through a combination of a four-year partial scholarship and some one-year scholarships, grants, part-time jobs, parent contributions and loans. I started working in my chosen profession two days after college graduation. It still took me 15 years to pay off those loans because I had to refinance the debt at one point into cheaper payments. Because my daughter also got a four-year partial scholarship, the same tactics that I used are the best plan for her, which leads into my submission for the carnival …
• Monroe on a Budget presents: Updating the college scholarship resume.”If you are a current college student like my daughter, you need to update your scholarship application and announcement packets every year.” I wrote the piece for my local readers, but sent it to the carnival because I haven’t seen that topic discussed on the national level. It got noticed quickly because the post has already been picked up at Poorer than You.