Big ups to Jeff over at the Sustainable Life Blog for including my post, “Brother, can you spare a swipe? Contactless card reading guitar unveiled,” in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance.

My post, which details a wireless, touchless credit card accepting guitar by Barclays, is nuzzled into the ever-popular theme of Labor Day. Because what says Labor Day more than a raggedy bum asking for change and strumming “Like A Rolling Stone” in the corner of a busy intersection? Well … maybe that’s not the best example.

The holiday, according to the carnival, is “dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers.” So congratulate yourself, kick up your feet and head on over to the carnival for a short history of Labor Day and loads of great personal finance articles.

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My thanks to Jason over at the blog Live Real, Now, for including the blog post by our editorial intern, Cara Henis, in the 270th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance.

I got a kick out of the carnival’s theme: Elvis is dead.

It’s the 33rd anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, and Aug. 16 is a day burned into my memory, because back when I was an editor at Country Weekly magazine in the ’90s, no Aug. 16 would pass without us doing a cover story on the legendary singer from Tupelo, Miss. I’m not sure why, but the anniversary of his untimely death is marked much more than the day of his birth.

The item from Cara included in the carnival was “My disagreement with credit card agreements.” It turned out to be the last thing Cara wrote for us during her internship; now that she’s graduated from the University of Texas, she’s moved on to her next adventure in life, and we wish her the best.

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