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!I had dinner with two friends from high school last night. We shared good wine, good food, and, especially, good conversation. Much of our discussion focused on our shared [...]

You can make money from your hobby.
Whether you knit, or write, or make photographs, or grow a vegetable garden, or tinker with cars, or build web sites, or collect ancient coins — you can make money from your hobby.
I’m not saying it’s possible to get rich by playing your violin at weddings, or by weaving [...]

The recent discussion about job-loss included a debate on the merits of becoming a consultant. Regular reader Andréa Coutu is a consultant. She wrote this guest article on how to become a consultant in order to explain the concept to Get Rich Slowly readers.
Getting rid of household debt is one of the best ways to [...]

Note: For a modern look at this topic, check out six tips for money-making hobbies.
What would Get Rich Slowly have been like if it were produced seventy years ago? Maybe something like this. (Or maybe not.) All text and illustrations from Money-Making Hobbies by A. Frederick Collins, published 1938 by D. Appleton-Century Company. I am [...]

I’ve fielded a lot of questions recently about how much time I devote to this site, and about how I write my posts. The answers are: a lot, and it depends. More precisely, I spend about forty hours each week managing Get Rich Slowly. Some weeks I only spend twenty hours. Some weeks I spend [...]

Many people could improve their personal finances if they simply viewed themselves as a business. In this guest entry, Flexo from Consumerism Commentary explains how he’s become the Chief Financial Officer of his own life.
In the very early days of 2002, I realized I needed to change a few things about my life.
My girlfriend [...]

This is the third part of an interview with Scott Durbin, one member of Imagination Movers, a rock band for kids. Durbin is taking an entrepreneurial leap, leaving behind a safe job to pursue a dream. You may also want to read part one and part two.
How did starting the Imagination Movers affect your personal [...]

Somewhere between workaday jobs and entrepreneurship lies the murky world of freelancing. The idea of striking out alone appeals to many people. But where does one start? Phil Gyford has created a beginner’s guide to freelancing.
It’s been over a year since I first thought of writing down everything I’ve learned about freelancing. I’ve now been [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I shared the first part of an interview with Scott Durbin. Durbin is taking an entrepreneurial leap, leaving behind a safe job to pursue a dream, starting a rock band for kids. This is the second part of the interview.
What was your family’s financial situation at the time you started [...]

Loral Langemeier claims that she can turn anyone into a millionaire. In her recent book The Millionaire Maker, she writes:

You can give me someone who’s severely in debt, you can give me a single mom on a low income, you can even give me a guy who’s living a big lifestyle on fumes. I can [...]