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!Some of you will wake tomorrow to find the same post at GRS you saw briefly on Tuesday morning (the bike metaphor). You’ll be confused. “Is this a re-run?” [...]

I often ponder which direction I should take Get Rich Slowly. Build the site? Write a book? Convince that other J.D. Roth to develop a television show around the premise?
My latest harebrained idea (which I’m only sharing because I’ve dismissed it) is to start a chain of Get Rich Slowly stores. I’d stock them [...]

I’m simultaneously an early adopter and the last one to the party. I signed up for a Twitter account long ago, but never did anything with it. I didn’t see the point. Now, though, it seems to have hit some sort of critical mass. Even my non-geeky friends are using it to keep in touch. [...]

I’ve received several questions about credit cards recently, and have been struggling with how to handle them. When I started Get Rich Slowly two years ago, I was firmly in the anti-credit card camp. I still believe credit cards are dangerous, but now recognize that they can be cool tools if used responsibly. (”Credit cards [...]

Ever since discovering Action Girl’s Guide to Living, I’ve used it as a sort of inspiration for my own life. I especially like point #2:
Support others’ actions. Support what other people do; spend your time and money on things done for something other than profit. This doesn’t mean you can’t buy the new U2 album [...]

I’ve added a new feature to the comments at Get Rich Slowly. Whenever I spot a reader contribution that I particularly like, I’ll highlight it so that others are more likely to notice it. My choice of great comments is entirely subjective, and dependent on time. (I’m highlighting comments manually.) Some days, I may highlight [...]

I’ve written before about my haphazard blogging method. On this computer, for example, I currently have open eight different browser windows, each with 8-10 tabs. Each of these tabs contains some page I think is worth sharing with Get Rich Slowly readers — someday. The trouble is I never find the time to write about [...]

Congrats to my colleagues JLP and Jonathan. The latest issue of Money magazine named JLP’s All Financial Matters as the most sensible money blog, writing, “In a scary market, his sober posts on index investing, asset allocation and sticking to your guns are strangely comforting.”
Jonathan’s My Money Blog was dubbed the most voyeuristic money [...]

To celebrate the second anniversary of Get Rich Slowly, I thought I’d do something a little different with my links round-up. Rather than share new finds from around the web, I’m going to point to some of my favorite stories from the archives.
And that’s what these are: stories. You won’t find hints on how to [...]

Yikes! Allergies! I came home from marathon training today to work in the yard. But the moment I began to mow the lawn, I was floored by a terrible sneezing attack and a drippy nose. I took some Claritin, but it didn’t really help. Instead, I spent a warm afternoon in utter misery, doing my [...]