With the very recent birth of my daughter, I won’t be around too much this week, so I prepared some morning roundups in advance that list some of my personal favorite articles from various other personal finance sites. Each day, I’ll feature four of them. Enjoy!

Remove Car Dents Quickly And Cheaply Here in the Midwest, we get hail storms about once a year. I use techniques almost exactly like these to get rid of the small hail stone dents, no fuss, no muss. (@ wise bread)

21 Strategies For Creating An Emergency Fund, And Why It’s Critical Some great food for thought here, especially if you have no emergency fund. (@ zen habits)

Barriers, Again Or: The Emergency Fund, Vindicated Along those same lines, if you still need convincing of how valuable an emergency fund can be, read this one. (@ an english major’s money)

Fabulous Food From Frugal Folks This is a great collection of inexpensive and simple recipes. If you’re thinking of dipping your toes into cooking at home for the savings, but have no clue what you’re doing, give this a read. (@ my open wallet)

The Simple Dollar Retro: Money Magazine’s 25 Rules To Grow Rich By – Reevaluated Basically, I took apart, detail by detail, an article from Money. If you really dig into some of their puff pieces, you can find some really interesting juice.