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!Get Rich Slowly readers have taken Financial Literacy Month to heart, and have been sending me information about money education for people of all ages. Kristin wrote to tell [...]

Marty wrote with an awesome tip for those interested in learning how to invest:
Lifehacker has a great link to free online investing classes at Morningstar. I signed up and have taken a couple. They are not bad at all — I wish my college had offered courses like this. They are not overviews, but get [...]

I wrote previously about my love for The Teaching Company, an outfit that provides college-level lectures on tape and compact disc. If you’re curious about the company, but want to know more, here’s a chance to sample a free lecture from one of its best courses.

To commemorate Halloween, The Teaching Company is proud to present [...]

There are few perfect sites on the internet. DailyLit is one of them.
If you are like us, you spend hours each day reading email but don’t find the time to read books. DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read. This works incredibly well [...]

Here’s a tip for getting a variety of college-level courses for cheap. Dirt cheap. This may be the best tip I have ever shared. I encourage you to read the entire entry.
The Teaching Company
The Teaching Company produces college-level courses from renowned instructors and sells them via catalog.
We bring engaging professors into your home or car [...]

Does your infant sport clothes from Baby Gap? Does your three-year-old carry a Gucci handbag? Does your first-grader have a Playstation, an iPod, and $80 shoes? What sort of message does it send to children when parents give them these sorts of expensive things? What sort of attitude toward money does this foster?
Lynn writes with [...]

Are you still in school? Are you looking for a job that pays big bucks? CNN Money has a list of the most lucrative college degrees.

Majors that have seen some of the biggest increases in average starting salaries are:

Hospitality services management
Business administration
Accounting
Economics
Information sciences
Civil engineering
Chemical engineering

Check out the entire list.
With a little planning, you can earn [...]

An AskMetafilter user has questions about saving for college education:
I have two kids (4 and 5), and I don’t think I’m going to set up college funds for them. I nor my brother had any support from family through college, and we both made it though (grants, loans, scholarships, jobs!). I’m just interested in other [...]

Many frugal folks are geeks at heart. Now you can indulge both sides of your personality with comic books from the Federal Reserve Bank!

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been publishing educational cartoon-style booklets since the 1950s. “The Story of the Federal Reserve System” is one of ten titles currently available. The comic [...]

Paul — who recently shared tips on socially responsible investments and on cheap world travel — is a financial aid counselor at the University of Oregon. He’s offered to share a presentation he’s been giving to students about loan consolidation. Recent grads who have unconsolidated federal student loans may also find this useful.
This information may [...]