It’s been a great month for Get Rich Slowly: the site saw its 3,000,000th visitor, 5,000,000th pageview, 32,000th RSS subscriber, 3,000th e-mail subscriber, etc. These are big numbers.
Better yet, I finally found my writing groove again. That’s important. It helps me produce quality articles on a regular basis. It also helps that so many GRS [...]

I’ve been sick all weekend, so I haven’t felt much like writing. I have, however, found time to browse other personal finance web sites. Here are some of the best recent articles from around the Money Blog Network:

Many GRS readers have asked me what I think of Mint. To be honest, I haven’t had time [...]

Most young couples must eventually decide whether to keep separate or joint financial accounts. We’ve discussed the pros and cons of each method, but we’ve never explored the practical considerations: how do you make each system work? More importantly, how do you make each system work well?
Recently, I’ve received a couple of questions about [...]

Would you scavenge your food from somebody else’s garbage? A group of people who call themselves freegans do this (and more) every day. This video describes their methods:

The current issue of Newsweek (dated 01 Oct 2007) features a story by Raina Kelley describing the month she spent living as a freegan:

I had nine rules: I [...]

Comic books have always been one of my money demons. Geeky, but true. I used to buy the actual comic magazines: Superman, Spider-Man, X-Men. As an adult, however, I graduated from spending just a buck or two for a comic to buying hardbound compilations and trade paperbacks costing $20, $50, or more.
No matter how [...]

Coupon codes are a great way to save money while shopping online. But how can you find the best deals for the sites you frequent? Googling isn’t reliable — search results yield too many spammy sites and too many outdated codes. Matt Haughey writes that there’s a better way:

[While searching for coupon codes,] I remembered [...]

This is a guest post from Pinyo, author of Moolanomy, a personal finance blog about money, wealth, investing, and more.
I’ve been investing since 1996. In the process, I have learned a lot, mainly from trial and error. I’d like to share my experience with you. Here are some of the mistakes I’ve made:

Not investing soon [...]

Jonathan from Deal Locker wrote to tell me that this Saturday is Museum Day in the U.S. — a chance to get into local museums for free. This event has been put together by Smithsonian Magazine and Hyundai. According to the magazine’s web site:

Museum Day is a nationwide event taking place on Saturday, September 29, [...]

Finally, after three months, I felt like things at Get Rich Slowly were back to normal today. That means I was actually able to spend some time replying to reader e-mail, as well as checking out other personal finance sites. (I spent almost three hours reading about money merge accounts, only to learn that nobody [...]

“Poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum,” writes Muhammad Yunus near the end of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. “I want to see a world free from poverty.”
If anyone else made such a pronouncement, you might be justified in dismissing [...]