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This week, a lot of this blog’s American friends will be racing around the country, heading back to old hometowns and stuffing themselves silly with calories and carbohydrates. Maybe, somewhere between fighting traffic and contemplating the utter weirdness of humanity while waiting at the airport, they’ll take stock of how lucky they are.

But before you go, though, here’s some food for thought from a flock of blogs. It’s a mash of the best ideas on personal finance and personal improvement that I could find. There are also some suggestions on how to better handle the upcoming holiday season.

Hopefully, it’ll add some gravy to your 2010.

Since I’m out of bad puns, I’ll just pass over the links.

Here are a few ways you can avoid getting H1N1 while traveling this holiday season from Life Hacker.

Black Friday’s coming up. Here are some tips from Financial Highway for making it through the holiday shopping season without taking on debt. And here’s a few frugal ideas for holiday entertaining at Personal Dividends.

Obviously, this is a good time to think about controlling that obsessive consumption, especially wings and thighs. You can thank Get Rich Slowly for this extra helping of conscience.

Thinking is a discipline. Sure. But here’s a Life Optimizer’s take on thinking like a lazy person in order to work smart.

We’re all trying to be successful. But just what makes a person successful? That’s what Money Crush wants to know.

Another great thing we should be thankful for is that people will stand up for investors. Green Panda does this in a book review on America, Welcome To The Poorhouse.

If you don’t want to eat yourself into the poorhouse, you can take Million Dollar Journey’s advice and do a little food planning.

Friday, if you’re brave enough, you’ll be able to take part in that most sacred holiday tradition–shopping. Here, Studenomics gives you some Black Friday tips. And from Bible Money Matters, here’s a post on Black Friday Shopping Tips: How To Get The Best Deals On The Things On Your List.  Finally, Centsational Girl gives you these tips on how to survive Black Friday.