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Thursday, 29th May 2008 (by J.D.)   
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This page collects various press mentions of Get Rich Slowly, including links to interviews. First up, profiles in mainstream magazines and newspapers:

The Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2008, “Stretching your dollars” — Roth, who blogs from Oregon, shares a cow with friends each year. The animal is butchered and the ground beef and steaks are divided among four couples. Roth has paid $300 for 83 pounds of meat, or $3.61 a pound. The meat tastes better than store-bought, he says. One drawback: “We eat too much beef because of it.”

         

Money, May 2008, “The best money blogs” (p120) — Most inspiring. Four years ago, J.D. Roth was buried under $35,000 in debt from various consumer and home-equity loans and despaired of digging out. Today the former cardboard-box salesman is debt-free and building wealth through careful budgeting and investing. His smart, can-do postings are stuffed with helpful resources and contagious enthusiasm about the joys of financial freedom.

Real Simple, March 2008, “Save more, worry less” (p235) — J.D. Roth…writes entertainingly and knowledgeably about digging out of debt and investing for the future..

Money, January 2008, “The 28 best money web sites” (p68) — After [you have] your financial picture, you might be itching for advice on how to make it better. Your latest issue of MONEY is certainly the place to start, but if you’re still starved for information, the blogosphere has scores of options, some worth your time and plenty not. Two of the best are Consumerism Commentary and Get Rich Slowly.

Parents, July 2007, “Thrifty bloggers tell all” (p188) — Want more ways to live cheaply without feeling cheap? Cop these ideas from your favorite bloggers.

The New York Times, 24 March 2007, “Apple cult becoming religion” — Get-rich-quick schemes abound in the personal finance sections of bookstores, encouraging everyday people to play the derivatives market or promoting “no money down” real estate investing. But hidden among the sillier works are helpful volumes. J. D. Roth presents 25 of what he says are the best of them on his blog, Get Rich Slowly.

The New York Times, 03 February 2007, “Consumers have allies on the web” — J.D. Roth was an avid reader of financial self-help books when he started a blog to summarize them. “You can find a lot of information on how to get rich quick,” he said, “but I know what it is like to be broke. For years, I struggled with debt.” His site reminds people of the simple things in life. For instance, he tells them to borrow books from the library, instead of buying new ones.

The Wall Street Journal, 24 June 2006, “Money advice, by the book” — Bloggers are getting in on the act of sorting through the personal-finance reads, too…J.D. Roth, who in April created his own web site called Get Rich Slowly…sounds like a character in a personal-finance tale of woe himself, who talks of being overloaded with debt, reckless spending, and hungry for get-rich-quick schemes, before realizing there was a better way to manage his finances. Now, he says, he reads a couple of books in the genre every month.

Speaking for Get Rich Slowly, I’ve also participated in many interviews, including those listed below. (Interviews marked with an ** are audio interviews.)

I’ve also appeared on Seattle’s KOMO 1000 News and spoken to graduating seniors at Western Oregon University. I am always happy to answer questions from the media.


 

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