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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]