October 2008


Cat and Girl is one of my favorite webcomics. It’s cynical, postmodern, and smart. I admit that not everyone finds it amusing (Kris, for example), but I do. I particularly liked yesterday’s strip, and am grateful that artist Dorothy Gambrell has granted me permission to re-post it here: Cat and Girl often features commentary on [...]

[read all of Cat and Girl on Halloween]

Several people wrote to tell me about the Restaurant.com 80% off deal, but I sort of blew them off. It sounded too good to be true. I was wrong. Turns out this is very very real, but the offer ends today. Kris and I have used Restaurant.com once, but don’t know much about it. Here’s [...]

[read all of Trick or Treat! Buy Restaurant.com Gift Certificates for 80% Off (TODAY ONLY!)]

My friend Sparky called the other day. We chatted about work, we chatted about the economy, and we chatted about investing. We also chatted about our families. We talked about my mother and her health problems, and then we talked about his parents and their health problems. “I can’t believe they haven’t updated their wills,” [...]

[read all of Creating a Will: It’s Not as Scary as You Might Think]

In general, when I share reader questions, I try to keep them as broad as possible. I get a lot of requests for advice about specific situations, but I try to steer those to the Get Rich Slowly discussion forum. I like for the questions on the blog to be relevant to a lot of [...]

[read all of Ask the Readers: Twenty-Something Needs Help!]

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