Just an odds and ends Friday, where I clean out various items across my blogging desk:

1. As pointed out by one of the commentators, question 7 in yesterday’s Debt Management and Savings Test, asked about the size of retirement contributions which did not consider that those in their 20’s and 30’s may not have worked long enough to be eligible to contribute $50,000 to their retirement portfolio. Thus, in lieu of that question, give yourself one point if contribute 6.8% or more of your gross salary to your retirement portfolio annually (the 6.8% figure is from a 2001 study from the Employment Benefits Research Institute and the Investment Company Institute). I’ll try to come up with some new tests and quizzes in the future.
2. I am becoming a carnival junkie. This week I was privileged to be the Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by Lazy Man and Money. Thanks for hosting Lazy Man (although if you did work to host, are you really that lazy?)
3. I mentioned as a side-comment in a previous post that revealing your salary at work causes more problems than solves them. This article writes on this issue and how the Facebook generation has no issue revealing their salaries publicly. The comments are amusing since, after the writer talks about all the trouble caused about revealing salaries, various commentators post their salary (or at least their salary range).
4. Michael James on Money ran an informal poll on what interest rates people are paying on unsecured line of credits. How do you compare?
5. Dividends4life muses about questions you should ask before you invest in anything.

Have a good weekend. On business travel next week, expect a lighter than usual posting schedule.