Buying wine at the grocery store can be a crapshoot. The local Safeway has hundreds to choose from, yet I know from experience that not all these wines are good. In fact, a few I hope never to drink again. Sometimes I try to increase the odds of turning up a good bottle buy paying [...]

Money Smart Life » Payback Time for Payday Loans – Share Your Story and win $50
Ben is taking $50 from a Payday loan advertiser and giving it to a commenter who has lost money to high interest borrowing in the past. Sneaky. DEADLINE IS TODAY.
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You might have noticed that the U.S. stock markets took a tumble today. In fact, the drop was the largest in five years. What does this stock market correction mean to the average investor? What does it mean for the fellow who’s just plugging a few hundred dollars a month into his IRA?
In the grand [...]

The latest issue of Money magazine has an article by Donna Rosato on how to file a tax return that won’t raise red flags with the IRS. (Curiously, the online version is slightly different than the magazine article.) Rosato writes:
Some 12 percent of people admit they think it’s acceptable to cheat on their taxes. [...]

Warranties
Official FTC site, via Lifehacker.
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What Does it Mean to Be Rich? | Money for the Rest of Us
“If one of your goals is to ‘get rich,’ I would suggest trying to define what exactly you mean by this.”
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How does a busy student turn more coin? [...]

My sister-in-law, Tiffany, called yesterday. “Do you guys want to have lunch at the new Thai place?” she asked. We did. Kris and I are eager to find another cheap restauarant close by. We picked up Tiff and drove to the Thai place, but it wasn’t open. Instead, we walked over to Sully’s, a small [...]

Jana writes in with a credit emergency. She’s been following Get Rich Slowly, and is learning how to handle her own personal finances, but she has a friend who is in a predicament beyond her realm of knowledge. (And beyond mine, as well.) Can any of you offer advice? She writes:

Kerry is a 23 year [...]

I don’t want to be Tom Hanks in the Money Pit | Ask MetaFilter
“How to hire and work with a contractor on a remodeling project?”
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“What do you mean poor people aren’t lazy?” | Ask MetaFilter
“Point me toward some interesting statistics, graphics, videos, or other materials about the causes and extent of social inequality [...]

You’re not going to get rich quickly from your hobby.
While it’s possible to earn a little income from a hobby or a side-business in a short time, to truly make it profitable takes hard work over the course of many months, if not years. I’ve been blogging for six years, but it’s only just recently [...]

I’ve made a few minor changes to the site. I also have an update on the contests!
Contest
For those of you who entered the one-millionth hit contest, here are the current counts:

Get Rich Slowly has had 946,860 visitors since opening. Roughly 76,000 visitors have come since the contest started on February 9th. At this pace, the [...]