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    Wednesday, June 18, 2008 A Six-Year-Old with a Credit Card (8 clicks)
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June 18, 2008 at 4:01 pm ET I hate junk mail.
As a test once, I signed up for a subscription to Entertainment Weekly using the name of our cat, Simon. Sure enough, Simon started to receive his very own junk mail — not that he could read it. When we moved in 2004, Simon stopped receiving mail.
Simon never received any [...] ... (more) From Get Rich Slowly - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 18, 2008 at 8:00 am ET The floodwaters in Iowa have crested and begun to recede, but they’ll leave a swath of devastation in their wake. Trent at The Simple Dollar — who lives near the flooding — recently shared a list of seven things you can do to help flood victims. But Elisabeth wants to know what these people can [...] ... (more) Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Life Without Credit Cards (16 clicks)
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June 17, 2008 at 2:57 pm ET For some people, credit cards are useful tools. For others, they’re a gateway to debt. My first step toward controlling my spending was to cut up my credit cards and move to a cash-only system. It was nearly a decade before I felt I could trust myself with a personal credit card again.
You might believe [...] ... (more) A Small Bite: The Sensible Way to Splurge (23 clicks)
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June 17, 2008 at 8:00 am ET This is a guest post from my wife.
I need dessert.
After a fine meal — home-cooked or dining out — I simply don’t feel satisfied without a bit of something sweet. The slowing metabolism that comes with encroaching middle age means I must do one of three things:
fight the urge and feel deprived
give [...] ... (more) Monday, June 16, 2008 Daily Links: 100 Pushups Edition (37 clicks)
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June 16, 2008 at 9:00 pm ET Here’s a quick plug for my fitness blog, Get Fit Slowly. A bunch of us started the one hundred pushup challenge today. Our goal is to be able to do one hundred pushups by the end of July. This seems nearly impossible to me right now — I can’t even do ten pushups. I’ll be [...] ... (more) Personal Finance Made Easy: Pay Yourself First (16 clicks)
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June 16, 2008 at 4:00 am ET Yesterday I shared some financial tips my father gave me when I was a sophomore in college. He didn’t stop there. After I graduated, he continued to offer advice. One of the things he told me was, “Pay yourself first.” To explain, he gave me a copy of George Clason’s 1926 classic, The Richest Man [...] ... (more) Sunday, June 15, 2008 From Get Rich Slowly - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 15, 2008 at 8:00 am ET Today is Father’s Day in many countries, including the United States. While sorting some old letters and photos recently, I stumbled across a letter my dad wrote to me during my sophomore year of college. This is my father’s financial advice to me when I was nineteen years old. I haven’t attempted to edit — [...] ... (more) Saturday, June 14, 2008 Frugality is Important (27 clicks)
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June 14, 2008 at 7:00 pm ET Here, via reader Karen L., are some words of wisdoms via a Chinese fortune cookie:
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---Related Articles at Get Rich Slowly:Voluntary Frugality vs. Frugality of NeedCall for Submissions: Festival of FrugalitySmall Amounts MatterAsk the Readers: How Do You Keep [...] ... (more) The Benefits of Barter (16 clicks)
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June 14, 2008 at 8:00 am ET This is a guest post from Andréa Coutu.
So you’ve got big ideas but no way to pay for them: a home renovation, weekend getaway, successful business, dream dinner date, leaner body, new bedroom suite…the list goes on and on.
Maybe your bank account has seen better days, or maybe you just don’t want to tie [...] ... (more) Friday, June 13, 2008 From Get Rich Slowly - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 13, 2008 at 8:00 am ET I encourage GRS readers to pursue their dreams. I also extol the virtues of entrepreneurship. Mike believes he’s ready to take both pieces of advice to heart. He wants to leave his job, set out on his own, and start a new business. But he’s worried. He wonders if Get Rich Slowly readers can offer [...] ... (more) Thursday, June 12, 2008 Daily Links: Interviews and Investing Edition (11 clicks)
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June 12, 2008 at 10:35 pm ET It’s been a crazy week. The electrical contractor has been here every day. I’ve had appointments every day. And so I’ve been behind every day, struggling to provide new posts. Things should return to normal next week.
One of my appointments was with a television crew. I was interviewed yesterday for a segment on the local [...] ... (more) The 13 Commandments of Savvy Consumers (39 clicks)
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June 12, 2008 at 1:31 pm ET Last week I wrote about the 2008 Consumer Action Handbook. This freely-available guide from the U.S. government is packed with useful information. I was leafing through the book again this morning before I put it away, and I noticed that the good stuff starts on page one with a list of thirteen quick consumer tips.
I’ve [...] ... (more) Wednesday, June 11, 2008 The New Reader’s Guide to Get Rich Slowly (19 clicks)
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June 11, 2008 at 7:36 pm ET Get Rich Slowly — recently named most inspiring money blog by Money magazine — is devoted to sensible personal finance.
You will not find any get-rich-quick schemes here. Nor will you find multi-level marketing fads or hot stock tips. I am not pitching any product or book. Instead, you’ll find daily information about personal finance [...] ... (more) Talking With Friends About Money (40 clicks)
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June 11, 2008 at 8:00 am ET We had dinner last weekend with our friends Pierre and Marcela. The food was fabulous. The conversation was good, too. Much of the time, we talked about money.
If I were a rich man
“If we were rich, I wouldn’t change a thing in my life,” Marcela said. “Except the food. If we made ten times what [...] ... (more) Tuesday, June 10, 2008 The New Thrift and Seduction By Debt (20 clicks)
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June 10, 2008 at 5:12 pm ET In today’s New York Times, columnist David Brooks writes about seduction by debt. The United States was founded on a moral structure that emphasized hard work and thrift, he says, and this helped the country grow affluent. But somehow we’ve lost our way. He writes:
The social norms and institutions that encouraged frugality and spending what [...] ... (more) Why It Pays to Ignore Financial News (9 clicks)
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June 10, 2008 at 12:30 pm ET Financial news can be dangerous to the health of your investment portfolio.
I spent some time yesterday reading recent articles about the stock market. What I found was mostly hysterical hype (“Gasp! Dow Jones Industrials tumble 400 points!”). All the financial stories seemed to be written as if our investment horizons were days, not years. No [...] ... (more) Monday, June 9, 2008 The Story of Stuff (16 clicks)
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June 9, 2008 at 9:48 pm ET Every time I write about Stuff, readers point me to The Story of Stuff, a 20-minute video about where Stuff comes from and where it goes. Until today, however, I’d never taken time to watch it. According to the web site:
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects [...] ... (more) Guarding Against the Invasion of Stuff (28 clicks)
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June 9, 2008 at 8:00 am ET Since August, I’ve been on a quest to reduce the clutter in my life. Back when I was a spendthrift, I bought a lot of Stuff. Stuff comforted me. When I was buying things (even on credit), I felt wealthy.
Stuff doesn’t make me feel wealthy anymore — it makes me feel cramped. With time, Stuff [...] ... (more) Sunday, June 8, 2008 Share a Dream, Win a Thousand Bucks (13 clicks)
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June 8, 2008 at 5:00 pm ET My colleagues Mark and Tim at Soul Shelter are holding a contest. They’re giving away $2,000 in prizes to people who share real-life stories about balancing fortune and fulfillment. Here’s more information:
All entries must be nonfiction and 400-1,500 words in length. Essays should tell a true story based on the author’s personal experience and relating [...] ... (more) From Get Rich Slowly - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 8, 2008 at 8:00 am ET I write a lot about saving money. Like many of you, I’ve found frugality an excellent way to widen the gap between what I earn and what I spend. Frugality helped me get out of debt, increase my monthly cash flow, and ultimately begin to build savings. Thrift is a key component to personal finance.
But [...] ... (more) Patching the WordPress AnyResults.Net Hack (9 clicks)
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June 8, 2008 at 5:22 am ET This post has nothing to do with personal finance, yet it’s be important to many readers. Please ignore it if it doesn’t apply to you.
It’s 2:30 a.m. I just spent the last eight hours tracking down an insidious hack that had affected all of my WordPress blogs except for Get Rich Slowly. This hack redirected [...] ... (more) Saturday, June 7, 2008 Elvis Talks About Money at the Gym (25 clicks)
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June 7, 2008 at 8:35 pm ET I go to the gym every morning at about eight. There’s a guy who shows up every morning at about nine. He’s huge: big, buff, and tanned. But the thing is, while I’m lifting little tiny weights because I’m just starting out, he lifts little tiny weights because that’s his way of staying big and [...] ... (more) How to Make Your Own Small-Batch Strawberry Jam (20 clicks)
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June 7, 2008 at 8:00 am ET This is a guest post from my wife.
Making your own jam doesn’t have to be a big production.
While it’s sometimes most efficient to do things in bulk with all the right gear, the small-scale option can be better if you’re just starting out and want to make jam without much initial investment. Also, [...] ... (more) Friday, June 6, 2008 Buying Cheap Spices: Unit Pricing in Action (14 clicks)
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June 6, 2008 at 1:00 pm ET In yesterday’s discussion of how unit pricing can save you money, John made a passing comment that merits closer attention. He wrote:
I use unit price all the time when shopping and it’s super convenient that the stores do it for you. I did an analysis of spices that come prepackaged versus a bulk food store [...] ... (more) From Get Rich Slowly - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 6, 2008 at 8:00 am ET Even during my bleakest financial periods, I was able to make payments to my creditors on time. Not everyone is so fortunate. Some people give up and eventually lose track of where they owe money. Nick wrote last week wondering what to do when you’re done running and ready to take responsibility for your debts:
I’ve [...] ... (more) Items 51 - 75 of 447
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