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!For the first time since getting my finances in order, I’m facing a real test of nerves. It’s not that I’m spending frivolously or doing anything dumb. We’re having [...]

A Get Rich Slowly reader pointed me toward a hilarious post at FAIL Blog, one that will make librarians everywhere weep.

The forum post they’re mocking says:

book rental service?
was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year on just books alone. most of them she reads once then never looks [...]

Sometimes when it’s quiet around here, it’s only because I’m working on other projects behind the scenes. Recording and transcribing my interview with Timothy Ferriss, for example, took a lot of work. I’m also experimenting with short video segments.
I’m pleased to announce that one of my largest projects from the past few months is finally [...]

Things are slowly returning to normal after a long holiday weekend. I only plan to post once per day at Get Rich Slowly this week, but I’ll resume my normal schedule next Monday. In the meantime, here are some other personal finance stories from around the web.
Several people sent me a recent New York Times [...]

Amber dropped a line yesterday to share a story that might seem minor to some people, but which is important to her and many others. A U.S. Federal appeals court has ruled that paper money is unfair to the blind, which may force the Treasury Department to redesign our currency.
“This has been a big [...]

Over at Free Money Finance, a guest poster recently wrote about how to save money with straight razor shaving. Because I’ve been at war with my facial hair for twenty years, I read this piece with interest. The author writes:
Straight razor shaving is like fly fishing: if your aim is to catch a fish or [...]

Earlier this week I wrote about Mary Hunt’s notion of a Freedom Account, a second checking account for handling irregular expenses. This isn’t really an emergency fund, but a separate account to keep things like insurance bills from thwarting your finances.
VH at Funny About Money posted a response describing how she uses targeted accounts [...]

Sometimes the articles I post generate a flood of comments. Sometimes they only generate a trickle. And sometimes it just takes a while for the conversation to get started. The latter seems to be the case with yesterday’s guest post about scams and pyramid schemes. Things started slowly, but today the comments have been interesting. [...]

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?” you’ll wonder. It’s not. It’s a technical glitch, for which I apologize.
This site runs on WordPress, a popular blogging platform. There are many good things about [...]

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 [...]