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!This is a guest post from Stephen Ward, who writes at Project Paradox.
Although many frugality experts decry the need for television, my wife and I enjoy it too much [...]

It’s been an annoying day here at the box factory. November 15th must be some sort of telemarketing celebration day. I’ve been handling three or four calls an hour from these bozos all day long. It drives me nuts.
I have little patience for spammers of any sort. Telemarketers are the worst. I have filters that [...]

Earlier today I wrote that I like to prepay my monthly bills. I acknowledged that some people might think this was dumb, but that I liked to do it anyhow. It’s not often that I share something with which GRS readers vehemently disagree. This is one of those rare cases.
Because there’s so much opposition [...]

Here’s the longest “money hack” I’ve ever posted. This is another reader comment from our recent discussion about the transition from “becoming debt-free” to “living debt-free”. In this guest-post from James, who is new to GRS, he describes how he created a “virtual employer” in order to limit his natural spending habits. By playing games [...]

Kris and I joined some friends last weekend for a 40th birthday celebration at Bluehour, a swanky Portland restaurant. While the other couples spent $150 to $250 for their meals, we escaped paying only $52, including tip. We hadn’t planned to do this, but our unintentional parsimony taught us a few ways to save [...]

It’s always fun to find new ways to save time and money in the kitchen. Here are two simple ideas to help reduce clutter on the counters.
Let the library store your cookbooks
During my recent fight to reduce clutter in the house, Kris pointed out that I had a shelf full of cookbooks that I rarely [...]

Over at The Dollar Stretcher, Pamela wrote looking for money-saving ideas that won’t burden an overfull schedule:
I need some tips from women who work outside the home and drive to a workplace everyday then have to come home after a long work day and take care of house and family. I often can’t use tips [...]

This is a guest post by Mehdi, author of StrongLifts.com.

How much do you save? I hope you put money aside. You don’t? Neither did I until a few years ago. How do you become a money saver? I’ll first tell you how you don’t: Not by using discipline or willpower. Discipline and willpower only [...]

This is a guest post from Shiva, who wrote to offer some advice on how to shop for prescription medicine: don’t assume that the new new stuff is better!
I am a general internist — a physician who provides primary care to adult patients — and am on the faculty of a medical school, where I teach medical [...]

While organizing my text files this afternoon, I stumbled upon a batch of tips and tricks that got lost in the shuffle. Here are some clever ideas submitted by your fellow Get Rich Slowly readers:
Russell Heimlich wrote to share his method for organizing bank statements. He uses a three-ring binder, a stapler, and a hole-punch. [...]