Welcome to the Best of Money Carnival (a weekly listing of the top 10 personal finance posts)– October 17th, 2011 “The Holidays Are Coming” Edition!

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Without further delay, here are the top 10 articles about finance and money.

Mike @ Green Panda presents 4 Little Known Ways of Saving Money While Traveling posted at Green Panda Treehouse.

Glen Craig presents How to Fix an Error on Your Credit Report posted at Free From Broke .

Jacob @ My Personal Finance Journey presents I’m Staying With Bank of America…”Are You Crazy?” posted at My Personal Finance Journey – Personal Finance, Intelligent Investing, And Frugal Living Tips.

Kim LaCapria presents How clutter costs and how to tackle it posted at TotallyMoney.

SavingMentor presents 11 Car Buying Tips To Get The Best New Car Price | HowToSaveMoney.ca posted at HowToSaveMoney.ca.

Crystal presents Check Your Credit Card Statements | Budgeting In the Fun Stuff posted at Budgeting In the Fun Stuff.

Mr. Money presents Here Come the Holidays: Can Layaway Save Your Christmas Budget? posted at Smart on Money.

Beating Broke presents A Simple Technique to Help Parents Meet Their Savings Goals posted at Beating Broke.

Lela Davidson presents Retirement Account vs. College Fund: Should We Really Put Ourselves Before Our Kids? posted at Parenting Squad.

Sustainable PF presents 3 Secrets to an Early Retirement posted at Sustainable Personal Finance

Thanks again for reading my Best of Money Carnival picks for this week. Please feel free to share your thoughts on how money (how you make, save/invest, or spend it) has had an impact on your life in the comments section of this post.