If you are new to WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com, every Friday I run a post called “A Lap Of The Blogs” which provides links to articles I found interesting and think that others may want to read for themselves. I also sometimes include some commentary on what’s going on in my personal life and a weekly “racing video” since my former life was in the auto-racing industry. The name “Lap of the Blogs” is in reference to “A Lap Of The Gods” which is an old video series which chronicled on-board footage of the world’s greatest F1 drivers lapping various racetracks from around the world. NOTE: you have to visit the actual website to see the embedded video – it may not appear in your email. Just click on the title of the email to see it…

Well I have a great solution for the sponsored posts. There is a tool I installed on the blog that will block sponsored posts from showing up in the RSS feed so regular readers will be spared from them. Plus I’ll put the disclaimer on them so they are clearly identified and will stick to running them on weekends. We’ll see how it goes, but hopefully this is a good solution for everyone and thanks for all the support! Of course you get to enjoy in the revenues generated by the extra contests that will be running in 2010 – starting with the Bourne Trilogy on Blu-Ray giveaway. Click here to enter the contest.

From Around The Blogosphere

Million Dollar Journey has a post titled “Carrying Forward RESP Contributions / CESG“.

Larry MacDonald looks at dollar cost averaging versus dollar value averaging.

Jon Chevreau shares some professional forecasts for asset class returns for 2010.

Canadian Capitalist shares actual asset class returns for 2009.

One of the golden rules of negotiations and sales: know when to stop talking. Thicken My Wallet explains.

Ellen Roseman is putting on another course for beginners who want to learn more about personal finance.

Michael James on Money writes about the possible genetic link with risk taking behaviour.

Big Cajun Man talks decluttering… and relates it to money, don’t worry. :)

Four Pillars discusses interest rates and housing prices two years ago, and the writer slightly reconsiders the wording this week. Four Pillars is written by two guys, by the way – but between them they have more personalities than that…. lol

This Week’s Racing Video

This week we have some on-board footage of one of the best drivers of all time, in any form of driving: Ari Vatanen. Click here if you can’t see the embedded video.