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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