Get Rich Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to learn what this site is about. I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Thanks to everyone who participated during last week’s 18-month anniversary celebration. I was surprised at the number and quality of comments you shared over the past few days. I’m [...]

It’s day four of reader appreciation week! Today I’m giving away a 1GB silver iPod Shuffle. To enter the drawing, leave a comment on this post with some sort of constructive feedback about Get Rich Slowly.
What’s your favorite article? What did you like about it? Or maybe tell me which articles you don’t like [...]

Get Rich Slowly turns eighteen this week! Eighteen months, that is.
While this blog is toddling around and learning to speak, I thought it might be fun to celebrate by giving something back to the readers. To that end, I’m holding a week of contests. I have over $600 in prizes to give away, including a [...]

I had lunch with a good friend today. Over Chinese food, we talked about personal finance. (Surprisingly, this isn’t a hot topic in my social circle.) We discussed the lure of new cars, and the virtues of buying used. We talked about the drawbacks of trading up from a small home to a large home. [...]

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 [...]

If you’ve reached this entry, then you’re at the new home of Get Rich Slowly. This site now has its own server. This should be more than enough room for the foreseeable future. Imagine a childless couple living in a 10,000 square foot house. Sometimes this couple throws large parties, but most of the time [...]

For the past eighteen months, I’ve declined invitations for Get Rich Slowly to participate in blog memes or join blogging networks. They just don’t seemed appropriate for the site. As with everything, however, there are exceptions.
I’m proud to announce that this site has joined two excellent blog networks: LifeRemix and the Money Blog Network.
What [...]

It’s a holiday weekend in the U.S., and I plan to make the most of it. Get Rich Slowly will be quiet until Tuesday. Kris and I will spend time with friends, work in the yard, and begin our de-cluttering project in earnest. (Actually, as I write this, it’s nearly midnight and we’re still up [...]

Leo, the genius behind Zen Habits (one of my favorite productivity sites), has helped to launch Blog Action Day, an annual event designed to focus attention on a single important issue. From the official press release:

An international initiative of bloggers known as “Blog Action Day” launched today, with the aim of uniting thousands of blogging [...]

I’m back from vacation. It’s awesome to be home and to not be spending money anymore!
Ireland was good. London was great. But New York — wow! New York was amazing. It far exceeded my expectations. I’m a small-town boy, no question, but I can still appreciate the big city.

New York is expensive, though. It’s [...]