Books


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!Today is the second anniversary of Get Rich Slowly. In celebration, I’m reprinting this revised version of the article that started it all, a l-o-n-g post from my personal [...]

[read all of Get Rich Slowly!]

This is a guest post from my wife.
I’ve been gardening for almost fifteen years. I started with flowers, added herbs and vegetables, then a few fruits, then a lot more. I’ve gardened in plots and pots and raised beds. I’ve drooled over bedding plants, spent too much on whatever was my obsession-of-the-moment [...]

[read all of The Bountiful Container: Gardening in Small Spaces]

Because I thought it would be a great source of material for Get Rich Slowly, last fall I enrolled in a lifetime membership to the American Association of Individual Investors. AAII is a non-profit founded in 1978 to provide individual investors — people like you and me — with tools and knowledge to better approach [...]

[read all of The Individual Investor’s Guide to the Top Mutual Funds]

Some people are luckier than others.
How many of you believe this? Why do you believe it? Are you one of the lucky ones? Or does luck seem to pass you by? And just what is luck, anyhow?
According to John D. Krumboltz and Al S. Levin, there’s no such thing as luck. In fact, they shirk [...]

[read all of Luck Is No Accident: 10 Ways to Get More out of Work and Life]

Don recently pointed me to an NPR piece about a new children’s book that explores the concepts of microlending and entrepreneurship.
Katie Smith Milway’s One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference tells the story of Kojo, a young boy from Ghana in West Africa. He borrows a little money to buy a [...]

[read all of One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference]

This is the first of an irregular series. I love to read, especially the classics. From time-to-time I’ll share nuggets of personal finance advice I find buried in the pages of the past.
This month, our book group is reading Betty Smith’s 1943 classic, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The book describes what it’s like to [...]

[read all of Lessons from Literature: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]

One of the fundamental premises of the Get Rich Slowly philosophy is that by making sacrifices and smart moves now, you can create a better life in the future. It’s a philosophy of deferred gratification.
But what if you don’t want to wait to enjoy life’s rewards? What if you want to take advantage of opportunities [...]

[read all of Uncommon Lifestyles and the Truth About the 4-Hour Workweek: An Interview with Tim Ferriss]

Dave Ramsey changed my life.
In the fall of 2004, I had over $35,000 in consumer debt. I was making a solid middle-class salary, but I lived paycheck-to-paycheck. My money habits were terrible. When I looked into the future, all I saw were years of toil to pay for the things I’d already purchased.
Then a friend [...]

[read all of Book Review: Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover]

As you might expect, most of my personal investments are safely tucked away in index funds, those mutual funds designed to track the performance of a particular stock market index. This is a smart way for the average investor to achieve solid growth over the long-term.
However, I continue to hold about 5% of my investment [...]

[read all of The Kitchen-Table Investor: Wealth-Building Strategies for Working Families]

During my family’s Christmas celebration, I learned a little more about my oldest nephews. I don’t see them often, so it’s hard to know what interests them. This year, I learned that six-year-old Alex likes art. You can bet I’ll be encouraging this productive hobby — the only other two things I know he likes [...]

[read all of Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide for Kids]

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