Kris and I went out for a nice dinner last night to celebrate a wonderful 2007. While we ate she told me, “I was just thinking this morning how happy I am. I have a great life. I love my job, my friends, my marriage, my home.” That, my friends, is true wealth — happiness, and the absence of a need for more.
I’m pretty happy, too. This past year has been amazing. I’m out of debt. I’m making money with my writing. And I seem to have found a way to help other people achieve their goals. I can’t ask for more than that.
To celebrate a great year at Get Rich Slowly, I’ve combed through the statistics and selected the top twelve articles based on traffic. Here, in no particular order, are the most-visited posts of the past year:
- The Power of Yes: A Simple Way to Get More Out of Life
- Which On-Line High Yield Savings Account is Best?
- How to Feed Yourself on $15 a Week (by Daiko)
- How to Start a Roth IRA (and Where to Do It)
- Healthy Food on an Unhealthy Budget
- Building a Personal Finance Library: 25 of the Best Books About Money
- Lifestyles of the Rich and Stupid
- Basic Tips on Tipping: How Much and To Whom?
- Renting vs. Buying: The Realities of Home-Ownership (by The Tim)
- An Introduction to Square-Foot Gardening
- 12 Investing Mistakes I’ve Made (and How You Can Avoid Them) (by Pinyo)
- 16 Ways to Eat Healthy While Keeping it Cheap (by Mehdi)
High traffic isn’t the only measure of a good article, though. Sometimes good pieces just don’t find an audience. Here are some of those unsung favorites:
- The Road to Wealth is Paved With Goals
- If Personal Finance Is Easy, Why Isn’t Everybody Rich?
- Facing and Fighting Financial Trolls
- Personal Finance on Film: The Farmer’s Wife
- Drama in Real Life: “You’re Fired!”
- Money Day: Your Personal Finance Holiday
- Money Blueprints: What Our Parents Taught Us About Money
I’ve enjoyed writing Get Rich Slowly over the past year. A large part of that is due to you and your contributions. Thank you. I look forward to providing you more personal finance information in the years to come!
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Most of us can “become” rich within minutes if we would just stop to think…
This particular post touches on something quite significant — defining the word, “rich.” You and Kay realized that “true wealth” is defined by “a good job, a good marriage, and a good house.” If more people, such as you, could stop for just a few moments, they would realize that they are already “rich.”
The only problem you have now is that you’ll have to change the name of your Blog to “Get Rich Quickly!”
Getting rich quickly can be achieved if we would only measure our wealth by means other than monetary…
I’ll look forward to more quality posts from GRS in 2008…
Cheers!
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Sounds like a great year J.D.!
I hope to be looking back and saying the same thing soon. It will probably be 2009 or 2010 before I can have all of my debt excluding the mortgage paid off, but at least I can see the light now.
Best wishes to you and your family for the new year.
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I have only been reading your articles for the last couple of months but I have come to look forward to them as a way to begin my day. I, too, am paying off debt, not a lot, and with snowballing it I am looking forward to a debt free December 2008. I have decided to get my head out of the sand and become responsible for my financial future. Thank you for your articles of inspiration and for running this site.
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I agree, most people think wealth comes from having money. It isn’t until you have money that you realize wealth comes from the appreciation for your own life.
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Thanks for the great post. Its always very handy when bloggers take the time to pick out their best posts in today’s time poor (?! – have you read Time Shifting?) society.
I’ll be back to read them soon
…there’s waaay too much here to read in a oner
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Congratulation on the successful 2007, and being debt free. I am glad to be a part of it, albeit, a very small part.
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Your blog has been an inspiration! I have learned a lot from Get Rich Slowly and gotten off my duff to do more online to express my views and share what I’ve learned in large part due to you. Have a great new year!
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Ryan
http://uncommon-cents.net/
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I’ve got half of the battle won at this point. I’m very good at not wasting money, living with less, and appreciating many of the things in life that don’t require money.
However, and this is probably obvious to most, I’m going to have to re-enter the traditional career path working world. I had been hoping to bootstrap myself into a “make a living via blogging” situation, but it is very hard to do.
I’m looking forward to having money to manage and invest wisely in the new year… I’m a lot wiser for troubles of the past.
Best wishes in 2008!
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You are officially my favorite financial blog. Thank you for providing informative content here EVERYDAY. From one writer to another, you’re doing a fabulous job!
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Great set of articles. and congratualtions on a great year!
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I forgot about “The Farmer’s Wife,” I remember watching it on PBS when it came out. I was mesmerized. This was before the onslaught of reality programs saturating television programming. Even though my family’s financial struggles varied from theirs…it made me feel less alone in the world, to know my family wasn’t the only one struggling at the time. Thanks for including that in your list. I’m going to see if my library does have it. I would love to view it again.
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JD — I just wanted to point out, since it’s listed here, that I found your blog when a friend sent me the link to the square-foot gardening post. I loved it and quickly became addicted to GRS. Congrats on a great year, and thank you personally for all the information and motivation you’ve provided.
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There are a lot of interesting articles there. I look forward going through them. Thanks for highlighting them.
Best Wishes,
D4L
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Thanks for the wrap-up. I’m glad you gave us the best of 2007 as well as the highest traffic’ed posts. I just wrote my 2007 wrap-up and did the same thing.
Happy New Year!
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Thanks for all the great & inspiring articles in 2007, JD, and for being one of the most consistently fair and good-humoured voices in the blogosphere. Here’s to a great 08!
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thanks for all the advice and info. 1 question, debt free means debt free from home mortgage and loans, car loans as well?
long way to go for me! just started looking at all these and trying to get into things. Am already 38 but planning on not getting married.
Keep up the good work!
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