Buying cars, Diet Foods, Down payments, Disability Insurance and More @ the Weekly RoundUp

This RoundUp includes what are, in my opinion, some of the best personal finance articles from the past week.

The carnival of perosnal finance was hosted by Lazy Man Money. Here are my picks from the carnival:

• Prepare For A Recession Or Job Loss With 2 Budgets @ Harvesting Dollars
• Our Car Buying Experience - Part Three: 5 Lessons Learned to Reduce Stress and Cost @ Chief Family Officer
• Vanguard Global Stock Index Fund And Why I Won’t Be Buying It @ Amateur Asset Allocator
• Lies We Tell Ourselves While Spending Money @ Think Your Way to Wealth

The Festival of Frugality was hosted by Sound Money Matters. These are the articles I've found most valuable:

• The Problem with Diet Foods @ Cheap Healthy Good
• One Great Potential Benefit Of Higher Gas Prices - Less Traffic @ Money Blue Book

The Money Hacks Carnival was hosted by Money Hacks. My picks are:

• With the Price of Everything Going Up, How Do You Budget? @ I've paid for this twice already
• Diversification of Income @ My Dollar Plan

More great posts from fellow bloggers:

• Where To Find The Down Payment For Your Dream Home @ The Digerati Life
• Home Maintenance Tips @ Save and Conquer
• 10 things to tell a graduating high school senior @ Brip Blap
• Is it Smart to Buy Disability Insurance? @ Generation X Finance

This concludes this roundup. I hope you've found my picks insightful and productive.