Emily's list: Hurricane season edition

1. Feel controlled by your credit card? Master Your Card lists several ways you can empower yourself and make your credit work for you.

2. Enemy of Debt presents a perfect example of why it is so important to keep an emergency fund if you want to stay out of debt.

3. Low on money after back-to-school shopping? 20Something Finance reveals 10 cheap and fun summer activities that won't make you broke.

4. The Financial Blogger features a hilarious letter from the perspective of his wallet talking to him, asking him to streamline his credit cards and add in his gift cards so he doesn't forget to use them.

5. Canadian Finance Blog explains how you can cope with feeling overwhelmed with debt by keeping a paper trail and diligently tracking your progress.

6. Studenomics discusses why you should eschew traditional personal finance systems, like arbitrary numbers and get rich quick plans, and instead implement several important personal finance basics.

7. Wealth Pilgrim tells readers what to do if your wallet is lost or stolen, starting with notifying your credit card companies.

8. During the school year, many of us are subjected to buying tubs of cookie dough, magazine subscriptions and candy bars in the name of school fund raising. It's a quick way to unnecessarily blow through money. Money Ning explains how you can politely turn these offers down as both a parent and potential customer.

9. Dough Roller explains how you can obtain your credit score if you don't have a credit card.

10. All Financial Matters discusses a book that explains 20 key points for negotiating your way out of debt.