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Administration
- FinCon 2019 and the future of Get Rich Slowly
- State of the blog (and: Introducing Apex Money!)
- Depression and me
- This blog is now a teenager: Thirteen years of Get Rich Slowly
- Join me in Portugal for a one-week chautauqua about money and life!
- Upcoming money events that might be of interest to GRS readers
- Celebrating one year of Get Rich Slowly 3.0
- Get Rich Slowly enters the video age (and a small request for help)
- An experiment: Saturday morning money conversations on the GRS Facebook page
- Summer Vacation 2018
- My financial philosophy: The core tenets of Get Rich Slowly
- I bought Get Rich Slowly! (or: The return of J.D. Roth)
- Financial freedom is time freedom
- Our New Home: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- The Key to Financial Freedom
- How to Make Better Decisions
- Your Personal Board of Directors
- The quest for the not-so-big house
- Picking the best online retirement calculator
- The Joys of a Walkable Neighborhood
- The Year of Opportunity
- The guilt of wealth
- Saying Yes to Strangers in India
- The Earth Awaits: Comparing Cost of Living Around the World
- The difference between frugality and minimalism
- Frugal Shaming and Financial One-Upmanship
- Birth of a Travel Hacker
- Comparing Quicken 2017 to other personal-finance apps
- Money app showdown: Mint vs. Personal Capital
- Review: You need a budget
- Choosing a Method to Track My Money
- Seven Money Strategies to Master in 2017
- I Lost Five Years of Early Retirement by Not Having a Plan
- What is social capital (and why should you care)?
- Reader Question: Where Should I Keep My Spending Money?
- Millennial Homeownership Rates Have NOTHING to Do with Student Loan Debt
- I'm Financially Stable but I Feel Like I'm Adrift
- Reader question: Is $10 million enough to never worry about money again?
- These Are a Few of My Favorite Blogs
- The four seasons: A new way to look at the U.S. economy
- Why I Plan to Track My Spending During 2017
- The Reduced Driving Experiment: Three Months, 618 Miles, and Two Tanks of Gas
- Ecuador Chautauqua 2016: Mindfulness, Habits, and Financial Freedom
- Unintended Consequences: The Side Effects of Our Financial Choices
- Money Boss Theater: How to Be Rich, Happy, and Save the World
- Overcoming Procrastination: How to Avoid the High Cost of Putting Things Off
- Highlights from Fincon 2016
- How to manage your personal finances like a business
- The Money Boss Budget
- How I Invest My Money
- Highlights from the Money Boss Academy at World Domination Summit 2016
- What's the Worst That Could Happen? Using Action and Momentum to Achieve Your Goals
- Taking Control of Time and Life
- How and Why You Should Practice Big Financial Moves — BEFORE You Need to Make Them
- Reader Question: What If You Lead a Meaningful Life but It's Putting You Into Debt?
- How to Stop Being Rich and Happy
- The Money Boss Manifesto: A brief guide to financial freedom
- How Ruslan Boosted His Savings by Learning to Live with Less
- Talking with Strangers About Money
- The Best Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Digital Courses about Personal Finance and Financial Independence
- There's No Right Way to Enjoy Financial Independence
- What's the difference between retirement and financial independence?
- What to Do When the Stock Market Crashes
- How to Set Goals and Resolutions You'll Actually Keep
- The Money Boss is the Only Free Man
- Improve your negotiation skills with BATNA
- Bad customer service? Talk to the CEO
- The Prodigal Son Returns: J.D. Roth Is Back at Get Rich Slowly
- What your loose change is really worth
- 2012 GRS Video Contest Winners
- This I believe: 43 lessons from 43 years
- 2011 GRS Video Contest Winners
- How to safeguard your social security number
- 2010 GRS Video Contest Winners
- “Simplify, simplify!” — In the footsteps of Thoreau
Apps
Banking
- Best savings account 2019
- Best Checking Accounts for 2018
- How and why you should start an emergency fund
- Which online high yield savings account is best? Updated 2019
- Guide to Small Business Checking Accounts
- Market-linked CDs Explained
- Best Lower Risk Investments for the Average Saver
- Review: Goldman Sachs Bank
- Elder Financial Abuse: Signs, Symptoms and Preventive Measures
- 5 things banks do for you that's really important
- Money matters: How money works (Part I)
- 5 things that undermine automating your finances
- 5 ways to keep your financial information safer from hackers
- Revisiting the credit union vs. bank debate: Which is better?
- How to dispute credit card charges
- Wedding savings accounts: How I saved for my wedding
- 30 Days to Better Finances
- New developments in online banking security
- Ask the Readers: When was the last time you went to the bank?
- Best CD rates | Certificate of Deposit rates
- Credit unions vs. banks: Things to consider
- 6 financial products that made the nice list (and 6 that didn't)
- Drawing the line with poor customer service
- Why Most of Us Won't Change Banks
- Why Pay Debit Card Fees? Changing Banks, or Not
- Free Money from Banks! (But Watch the Fine Print)
- Checking Accounts: New Rules, Old Rules, Your Rules
- High interest: How to choose between checking, savings, and CDs
- How (and Why) I Moved My Money to a Local Bank
- Discovering the Power of Compound Interest
- What Does It Take to Make You Switch Banks?
- Are Debit Cards Evil, Too?
- How to Choose the Right Bank Account
- How to open a money market account
- Online banking: Choices for higher interest rates and increased security
- The $1500 Frisbee
- The credit crisis — visualized
- Making the Most of Your Checking Account
- Ask the Readers: Choosing a Bank During the Credit Crisis?
- Stale checks: How long can someone wait to deposit a check?
- How to open multiple accounts at ING (now Capital One 360)
- How to Avoid Bank Overdraft Fees
- Is a 6.25% Checking Account the Best Deal in Portland?
- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
- From Bank to Credit Union
Books
- The seven deadly sins of personal finance
- Book review: I Will Teach You to Be Rich (2019 Edition)
- What is money for? An evening with Vicki Robin
- Book review: Work Optional by Tanja Hester
- Financial freedom and the value of time
- My experience with the KonMari method (and the life-changing magic of tidying up)
- An index to every money book I've reviewed during the past twelve years
- What early retirement was like in 1957 (according to Life magazine)
- How to get rich and stay rich
- How to retire young
- Thinking in Bets: How to make smarter decisions
- Book Review: Get Money
- Cashing in on the American Dream: How to retire at 35
- Work less, live more: The way to semi-retirement
- Book review: Meet the Frugalwoods
- Money Without Matrimony: Financial advice for unmarried couples
- Book review: You Need a Budget
- Book review: The Simple Path to Wealth
- Books about money that might make appropriate Christmas gifts
- Best Books for Beginning Investors
- The Happiness of Pursuit
- ‘When She Makes More': 10 rules for breadwinning women
- Book review: “Eventual Millionaire”
- Get Rich Slowly: The Course
- Talking with Gretchen Rubin about money and happiness
- My year-long quest to create a guide to mastering money
- The power of profit margin
- Financing your bucket list
- Book review: “Personal Finance for Dummies, 5th Edition”
- How I built an income safety net
- Review: FlexScore, The book and website
- Book Review: “Soldier of Finance”
- Book Review: ‘The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read'
- Book Review: ‘The Money Book for the Young Fabulous & Broke'
- Book Review: ‘More Money, Please'
- SEP IRA vs. self-employed 401(k)
- Book review: ‘Change Your Life in 7 Days'
- Career strategies of high earners
- 9 traits of underearners
- Invest like Warren Buffett… but not really
- I'm off to grow a giant pumpkin!
- 5 debt lessons from ‘Braveheart'
- Investing in your investing education: A resource list
- Mike Michalowicz, ex-Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
- Lessons on money and relationships, from fiction
- My strange love of stocks or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the Buffett
- Why we buy: The science of shopping
- When you just can't get the important stuff done
- Review: How I Make Money Blogging
- One Lesson From a Financial Whiz Kid
- The Real Secret to Making Money by Following Your Passion
- Book review: The $100 Startup
- The Best Books About Money
- Overcoming Uncertainty
- Logic and Emotion: Why Smart Money Management Isn't Just About Math
- Playing to Your Strengths
- Book review: Early Retirement Extreme
- American Cookery: Magazine Ads from 1939
- Living below your means is like saving for retirement twice
- Book Review: Living the Savvy Life
- An Interview with Thomas Stanley, Co-Author of “The Millionaire Next Door”
- Review: The Money Book For Freelancers
- Nine lessons in wealth-building from The Millionaire Next Door
- The Tiger Mother and You: Are We Preparing Our Kids for a Better Financial Future?
- Finding Financial Benchmarks and Milestones
- First Generation White Collar
- Are e-books cost effective? The pros and cons of e-books
- Best Books on Investing: My Favorite Investing Authors
- Earning Extra Income with a (Small) Blog
- Book Review: The Skinny on Real-Estate Investing
- Book Review: Banker to the Poor
- Book Review: How to Debt-Proof Your Marriage
- Book Review: The Simple Dollar
- Book Review: The Art of Non-Conformity
- Book Review: Mind Over Money
- Your Money: The Missing Manual
- Surprising Secrets of the Cheapskates Next Door
- Book Review: The Other 8 Hours
- Book review: The happiness project
- New Job, New You
- You can negotiate anything
- The Paradox of Choice and the Dangers of Perfection
- Munny Journey: A Journal for Your Child's Financial Development
- Crush It! and The Best Books on Boosting Your Income
- Happier
- Essential Personal Finance E-Books
- The 1-2-3 Money Plan
- The Quiet Millionaire
- Failing Forward: Transforming Mistakes into Success
- Escape from Cubicle Nation
- 25 essential books about money
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get on With Your Life
- Ask the Readers: How to Save Money on Books?
- Fail-safe investing? Harry Browne's permanent portfolio
- Hard Times: An oral history of the great depression
- How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously
- Book review: I Will Teach You to Be Rich
- Continuous service? Dumb moves from Smart Money
- Stand Up to the IRS: Free Guide to Tax Audits (and More!)
- Magazines (and websites) about homesteading and self-sufficiency
- Book Review: Overcoming Underearning
- Confessions of a Butcher: Eating Steak on a Hamburger Budget
- Career Renegade: Make a Living Doing What You Love
- How to Be the Family CFO
- Interview: The Motley Fool's David Gardner Talks About Stock-Market Investing
- Million Dollar Portfolio: The Motley Fool Guide to Stock-Market Investing
- Free Downloadable Suze Orman Book from Oprah
- Book Review: 365 Ways to Live Cheap!
- Book Review: The Power of Less
- In defense of buying books
- Book Review: Work the System
- Yes, You Can Achieve Financial Independence
- The Balanced Money Formula
- How to compute your REAL hourly wage
- The Myth of Multitasking: How Doing It All Gets Nothing Done
- Die broke: Spend 'til the end
- Back to Basics: A Guide to Traditional Skills
- The Four Pillars on Index Funds
- The four pillars of investing
- 50 Prosperity Classics in a Nutshell
- Book Review: 50 Prosperity Classics
- Tim Ferriss on the Power of Personal Entrepreneurship
- How to take a sabbatical
- Using Mini-Retirements to Get More Out of Life: An Interview with Timothy Ferriss
- Robert Kiyosaki: Increase your financial IQ
- Book Review: Investing 101
- Get Rich Slowly!
- The Bountiful Container: Gardening in small spaces
- Luck Is No Accident: 10 ways to get more out of work and life
- Uncommon lifestyles and the truth about the 4-Hour Workweek: An interview with Tim Ferriss
- Review: Dave Ramsey's ‘The Total Money Makeover'
- The Kitchen-Table Investor: Wealth-Building Strategies for Working Families
- Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide for Kids
- The Ultimate Cheapskate's Guide to True Riches
- The Random Walk Guide to Investing: Ten rules for financial success
- The Prosperous Peasant: Five Secrets of Fortune and Fulfillment
- Ask the Readers: Personal Finance Books as Gifts?
- Book Review: All Your Worth
- The Incredible Secret Money Machine
- Book review: The Automatic Millionaire
- Book Review: Voluntary Simplicity
- How to Read a Personal Finance Book
- Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek
- Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes (and How to Correct Them)
- Book Review: Debt is Slavery
- Get rich quack: David Schirmer of The Secret
- Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
- There is no secret: The myth of the Law of Attraction
- Book Review: Time is Money
- Book Review: Acres of Diamonds
- The ultimate round-up collection of personal finance books
- Book Review: The Consumer Trap
- 10 Ways to Save Money on Books
- Money-Making Hobbies (from 1938)
- Book Review: Quarterlife Crisis
- Book review: The Millionaire Next Door
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
- Getting Things Done: How to Take Control of Life
- How to Manage a Windfall Successfully
- Are You Normal About Money?
- Book Review: The Millionaire Maker
- Ten Secrets of Success
- Frugality in Practice: Building a Cheap Personal Finance Library
- 50 Success Classics: Winning Wisdom for Work and Life
- Phil Town's rule #1 investing
- How I Choose Personal Finance Books
- Miserly Moms: Living on One Income in a Two-Income Economy
- Free comics from the federal reserve
- The Wealthy Barber
- Your Money or Your Life Review
- Start Late, Finish Rich
Budgeting
- How to budget: A pain-free guide to building a budget that works
- Struggling with money anxiety and finding balance
- By the numbers: My spending for March 2019
- Financial advice from my father (when I was nineteen)
- By the numbers: My spending for February 2019
- By the numbers: My spending for January 2019
- My financial plans for 2019
- My 2018 year in review
- How would you spend $100,000?
- Money nerds and their spreadsheets
- “How much house can I afford?”
- April 2018 spending update: Did moving to the suburbs save me money?
- Quick money wins to help you feel more in control of your finances
- Advice for a young adult learning to manage money
- The best way to spend less? Cut back on the big stuff!
- Case study: Analyzing an average person's budget and investments
- How one young couple budgets and plans for the future
- Ask the readers: How do we start over?
- Your Thrift Habits — Budgeting tips from 1948
- Best budgeting apps of 2018
- Visualize your budget flows with a Sankey diagram
- Another way to visualize your finances: Color-coded expenses
- Household Budgets for Beginners: Simple Tips for Success
- The High Cost of Summer
- Our kids' data usage is killing us
- Financial goals when the going gets tough
- How to save money each month
- What do you budget for pet travel or care over the holidays?
- 10 ways to maximize your end-of-year finances
- 7 surprising results when you pay your kids for chores
- How do you decide what to spend on a computer?
- How do you budget for experiences after debt?
- Money moves for graduates: How to set up a budget
- Budget smart now – enjoy great holidays later
- How to start paying student loans – best practices guide
- Master this personal finance concept
- Getting real (and serious) about your financial future
- Couple erases $55K student loan debt in 14 months
- Limited income, big family, major savings: Meet the Economides clan
- How are you preparing financially for June celebrations?
- How to invest even if you're treading water financially
- 7 grocery staples more expensive this summer
- What will you do when your debt is paid off?
- Celebrating one year of homeownership
- Ask the Readers: What expense do you most want to dump?
- The tax mistake that could hurt you now or next year
- How to homeschool on one income
- How much to save for maternity leave
- How to budget for summer camp
- Ask the Readers: What is your best budget-friendly tip for Mother’s Day gifts?
- 10 tips for when you can't find a job
- What McDonald's and Walmart raising wages could mean for the economy
- How to build wealth from scratch
- Financial benefits of being over 60
- Ask the Readers: Do you measure your progress?
- How to save money from falling gas prices
- Ask the Readers: 2015 is my year to…
- Get a good workout without a gym membership
- What else to consider when accepting a job offer
- Keeping my New Year's resolutions — what didn't work for me (and what did)
- Looking back on the year, what could we have done better?
- How to Save for a House
- Are you holding yourself back with these money lies?
- Christmas gifts that keep on giving
- How does a strong dollar affect you?
- Can a cash grocery budget save you money?
- A six-figure income, and still paying off debt?
- Painless ways I save money in every category of my budget
- Can getting one month ahead save your budget?
- Should cash be part of your emergency fund?
- Ask the Readers: How much does a creative costume cost to make?
- I want Christmas to be debt-free
- How I budget with a variable income
- Hiccups on the way to combining finances
- The daycare debate: A double-edged sword
- Ask the Readers: How do you know if a vet procedure is really necessary?
- Dissecting retirement savings
- Becoming friends with your future self
- Student loan update: Interest rate edition
- Getting a frugal start on summer
- A Guide to Managing Your Fear of Money
- Your landline: Think twice before cutting the cord
- The only two things you need to remember about funeral costs
- Ask the Readers: What is your most pressing financial issue (this year)?
- Is this where you can cut the most the quickest?
- How to track your spending (and why you should)
- The Notebook
- Can you grow your family on a shrinking income?
- Speaking of hobbies…
- Don't have savings? Quit making excuses
- On a time crunch? Squeeze more out of your day
- Food spending: When bad habits attack
- Money lessons I've learned since writing for Get Rich Slowly
- Ask the Readers: 2014 wedding planning: What can you do to save money?
- What to do when Easy Street develops potholes
- Coping with job loss
- How we saved one year's salary in Roth IRAs in grad school
- Our light bulb moment
- The power of a zero-sum budget
- 5 money excuses that held me back
- How to earn $391.11 in 16 months and still be OK
- Heal your money shame in 3 simple steps
- 5 money-savvy tips for recovering from a divorce
- How to cure a spending hangover
- Redeeming your credit card rewards — what do you do with them?
- Adventures in returning to the envelope system
- 6 things I did because I was poor that made me poorer
- The truth about being broke
- How I kept to my budget and still have everything I want
- Travel on a budget: The all-inclusive vacation
- Are you saving when you should be spending?
- When lifestyle inflation isn't even fun
- Why my garden won't replace my CSA subscription
- Using the waterfall money management system
- 13 smart ways to be frugal at work without looking like a cheapskate
- Decrease your budget's bite by saving money on meat
- How 5 daily habits rocked my financial world
- Your budget isn't working. Here's why.
- Are automatic payments all they're cracked up to be?
- The frugal Orioles fan
- Spending in depth: The hair care budget
- Planning for a new financial paradigm
- Costs and savings of having a stay-at-home parent
- Love, relationships and financial harmony
- How to save money while seeing the world
- The value of vacation
- How to Save and Invest Money
- Party philosophy: When to spend big on fiestas
- Starting to see financial fitness muscle!
- Join the Debt Movement
- Pursue a dream to move to a new location
- Driven crazy by car loans
- The power of proclaiming your frugality
- Lowering expectations for Christmas
- Adopting strategies to pay for big expenses
- Be thankful for the present amid planning the future
- Setting my next financial goal
- When is a lifestyle upgrade OK?
- Ask the Readers: How do you keep holiday tipping in check?
- Learning how to work a student discount
- Foster kids “age out” without a financial education
- Ask the Readers: What is your hobby worth to you?
- Spending in depth: the bagel budget
- Ask the Readers: Do Your Morals Cost You More?
- Redefining Frugality: Mistakes and Money Lessons Learned as a Freelancer
- Coping with Unplanned Medical Expenses
- Earning More vs. Spending Less
- Household budgets: When one partner won't budget
- Saving for a Big Purchase
- When There Isn't Enough
- Where I'm Starting From: Honey's Story
- Frugal or foolish? Our cruise-ship wedding
- Ask the Readers: How Much Do You Spend on Fun?
- My Financial Evolution: Discovering What's Right for Me
- Classifying wants and needs
- Ask the Readers: One Expense Leads to Another?
- Finding Room for the Spontaneous
- The Costs and Benefits of the Family Dog
- How I stopped excessive gifting
- The bonus of bi-weekly pay
- Ask the Readers: Income? Or Negative Savings?
- Transportation: Friction Versus Finance
- Ask the Readers: How Much Do You Spend on Housing?
- How to Spend a Tax Refund
- Detecting and Preventing Lifestyle Creep
- How to Keep Your Thanksgiving Budget Thankfully Low
- The Many Ways to Know and Control the Flow of Your Dough
- Adding to Our Family Without Subtracting from Our Budget
- Holiday Saving Tips: How to Grow Your Christmas Nest Egg
- Budgeting Dilemma: How Do You Decide What You Can Afford?
- Negative Budgeting and a Healthy Outlook on Life
- Ask the Readers: But HOW Do You Track Every Penny You Spend?
- Learning to Give
- Five ways to outwit the ATM
- How I Spend My Money
- Back to the Stone Age: Low-Tech Expense Tracking
- An 11-Year-Old's First Budget
- How Budgeting Leads to Freedom
- How to Cope with Budget Blow-Ups
- How to Find Budgeting Nirvana with Mint.com
- How Our Simple, No-Category, Mostly-Cash Budget Accidentally Paid Off the Car
- My $132,683 Comcast Bill
- Finding My Spending Identity
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Build a Wardrobe on a Budget?
- Getting started – Review of the Mint.com signup process
- Budgeting For Mistakes
- The Quest for the Best Budget
- Where's the Money, Honey? Why You MUST Track Your Spending
- Ask the Readers: Help! I'm Overwhelmed! How Do I Get Started?
- The Prioritized Spending Plan
- Patience and Persistence Pay Off
- Investing in Your Life Pays Off in the Long Term
- The Legal Nomad on Saving for Travel
- Free Microsoft Money download now available
- Free money-management spreadsheet
- A Simple Question to Jump-Start Your Finances
- Planning for Budget Busters: Home Ownership
- Planning for Budget Busters: Transportation
- Attacking One Budget Category at a Time
- The Battle of the Bulge, and the Battle of the Budget
- Finding Your Financial Blind Spots
- The Calculus of Cats and Dogs
- The 50-Percent Solution
- Why I No Longer Track Every Penny I Spend
- Fixed expenses and flexible expenses: How to budget for both
- How to Manage Your Financial Vices
- Plan Your Gift-Giving to Save Time and Money
- Reader tip: Pay your bills as they arrive
- Drafting a Plan for Discretionary Spending
- Where's Your Financial Comfort Level?
- Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous…on Lease
- Start Saving For Next Year's Christmas Today
- Don’t Let Irregular Expenses Wreck Your Budget (or Drain Your Emergency Fund)
- Why I broke down and joined Mint
- Household Budgeting Made Easy
- Budgeting For a Lifestyle Change
- Green Sherpa: An Online Cash-Flow Management Tool
- Making the Most of Small Windfalls
- The “Do-I-Have-Enough-For-This?” Effect
- How to budget for an irregular income
- Learning to budget with a money jar system
- Good-bye, Microsoft Money! 12 powerful personal finance programs
- The Per-Diem System: An Easy Way to Budget Your Spending Money
- My used mini cooper and the power of saving
- Why We Chose a 30-Year Mortgage
- The high cost of cats and dogs: Are pets worth the money?
- Save Money with Regular Home Maintenance
- Money Hack: The Monthly Checkbook Sweep
- The Ten-Minute Budget
- Ask the Readers: When Is It Okay to Spend Your Savings?
- Personal finance 101: How to pay your utility bills
- In praise of the adult allowance
- Why Charitable Giving is Even More Important During an Economic Downturn
- Ask the Readers: How Do Children Affect Financial Priorities?
- The debt-to-income ratio: How much house can you afford?
- Could You Eat Healthfully on One Dollar a Day?
- Kids Who Are Smart With Money
- Ask the Readers: Twenty-Something Needs Help!
- Learning to Give: What *I* Can Do to Fight Poverty
- A Practical Wedding
- Funding the Future with a Financial Savings Plan
- Ask the Readers: Smart Shopping for Big-Ticket Items?
- The Power of Attentive Spending
- The Budget Toolbox: 13 Tools for Building a Better Budget
- Saving for Baby: Making the Move from Two Salaries to One
- Building a Better Budget: Think Yearly, Not Monthly
- SmartyPig: A Goal-Oriented Savings Account
- A Quick and Dirty Budget
- Do-it-yourself landscaping can save thousands
- Use a No-Spend Month to Become Mindful of Money
- Money Tips from Consumer Reports
- How to Track Travel Expenses and Stick to a Vacation Budget
- Use a Freedom Account to Prepare for the Unexpected
- Use “Reverse Credit” to Stick to Your Budget
- Budgeting: The Most Important Thing You Can Do With Your Money
- A free and simple budget planner
- How to Automate Your Personal Finances
- Setting and Achieving Financial Goals
- The spending plan: Budgeting for non-budgeters
- Recurring Monthly Costs: Which Are Worth It? Which Are Not?
- Using Quicken to Analyze and Correct Bad Spending Habits
- A Successful Vacation Budget
- How I Escaped from Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck
- You Are Your Own Worst Enemy
- Ask the Readers: What's the Best Way to Save for a Down Payment?
- Commandment #4: Be Frugal
- The Get Rich Slowly Budget Workbook (Version 2.0)
- A Simple Budget Spreadsheet
- How To Protect Yourself From Lifestyle Inflation
- Ask the Readers: Help for a Broke New Yorker?
- Reader Question: Methods for Tracking Expenses?
- You, Inc.: How to Be the CFO of Your Own Life
- Track Your Spending with a Cash Notebook
- Basic tips on tipping: How much and to whom?
- Track every penny you spend
- Want to Save? Give up the Big Things!
- Tricks for Tracking Your Money?
- Handy personal finance spreadsheets
Career
- Should I stay or should I go? Wrestling with the decision to quit a career
- Why “follow your passion” is bad advice
- Inside jobs: What do people do all day?
- How to do great work
- Building a better resume
- Saving more and working longer: Two powerful ways to increase your retirement resources
- How to earn more money: Three ways to boost your income
- How to negotiate your salary (and earn an extra half-million dollars in your lifetime)
- You and Your Work — Employment tips from 1948
- Land your dream job: How to find work that brings both joy and money
- Five steps to make more money while growing your career
- What to do when you lose your job
- A library of interviews with people from different careers
- How to be the big boss: Lessons from a decade of interviewing CEOs
- College Grads: How to Increase Your Salary
- 11 Myths That Stifle Budding Entrepreneurs
- Setting Financial Goals
- 4 things to do before you ask for a raise
- Layoff to start-up: 8 tips from a successful entrepreneur
- Best side jobs for extra cash
- The secret to making extra money with eBay
- Are you planning to retire to another job?
- How to optimize your resume for employment gaps
- Hourly vs. salary: Which is better?
- How to cancel COBRA insurance
- What is COBRA insurance? (and other frequently asked questions)
- When to use intermittent FMLA
- How to profit from economic cycles
- Job search tips that work
- How to interview a prospective employer
- Ask the Readers: How do you motivate yourself when you feel like giving up?
- Ask the Readers: How much are you willing to sacrifice to reach your financial goals?
- Should I get a part-time job in college?
- Flexibility can help you reinvent your career
- Ask the Readers: What are your best tips for interview success?
- How to turn down a job offer (or resign) gracefully
- The importance of financial balance — a conversation with my mom about money
- Consider more than salary when evaluating a job offer
- Preparing financially for a job search
- How to curate your social media presence when job-hunting
- What does your job tenure say about you?
- To what do you attribute your success — hard work or good fortune?
- 9 reasons you may never retire
- Networking strategies can help you overcome the fear of trying to advance your career
- A better way to calculate the value of your time
- The 9-to-5 job: Challenging how we earn a living
- Working from home … with distractions
- Ask the Readers: Are the “golden handcuffs” real or self-imposed?
- How to negotiate when you hate negotiating
- Taking the Chairman's Flight and other career-limiting moves to avoid
- From side hustle to full time: When it's time to go all-in
- A conversation with Mr. Money Mustache
- Cultivate your X-factor before it's too late
- What's the value of work-life balance?
- Overwork and the illusion of a “high-paying” job
- The joy of being average
- Money mythbuster: Women don't negotiate
- Looking ahead pays off until “boom”!
- A case for “hard work pays off”
- Ask the Readers: Big decisions for 20-somethings
- Anyone can start a side business
- Student loans: Lessons learned, choosing a major, and overcoming regrets
- Youth and exuberance give way (aka my lesson on entitlement)
- Ask the Readers: Should you move for work?
- Changing careers: The grass isn't always greener
- Getting technical: an alternative to traditional college
- 4 signs you're over your job & 5 things you can do about it
- How I paid off $610,000 in debt, became a dad and quit my job — in 2 years
- Time-management strategies for working parents
- Bicycle commuting and frugality
- The high cost of saying ‘no'
- Should you ever work for free?
- How I built up the courage to quit a promising career with a six-figure salary
- Investing in professional conferences
- The cost of workaholism
- Negotiating for perks when raises are off the table
- A scholarship for small-business folks
- Throwing away an old rule
- Workplace gratitude: A simple way to boost your ‘income-producing ability'
- Make more money as a subject matter expert
- In defense of passion (with the help of reason)
- Why “follow your passion” is bad advice, and what to do instead
- The power of personal networks
- Lessons from a master, Jiro Ono
- Safeguarding your career switch
- Ask the Readers: What is your most pressing financial issue?
- Should you be a generalist or a specialist?
- From recession to best financial shape of my life
- Ask the readers: If parents are paying for college, are any majors off limits?
- Side gigs vs. day jobs
- Stop Being the Person You Think You Are
- What Matters in Matters of Love and Finance
- A Lifetime of Work
- I Asked for a Raise — and Got It!
- How Much Is Your Time Worth?
- Can't Get a Job? Get a Microjob!
- Getting Off Track
- Lost on the Career Path
- Nobody Has It All: Careers We Can Believe In
- The Value of Human Capital
- The Real Cost of Work
- Are You Afraid to Earn More?
- Burgers or Blogging? Further Thoughts on Pursuing Your Passion
- I quit my passion and took a boring job
- Re-Evaluating the Rat Race
- How to negotiate your salary
- Career moves: How to win the office politics game
- How to Know When to Quit
- How to Ask for a Raise in a Bad Job Market
- 10 career lessons from Julia Child
- Why leaving my job in finance was the best decision ever
- Taking a Risk, Reaping the Rewards
- Ask the readers: How can I handle “required” office spending?
- Five Career Moves with Exponential Returns
- I'm a sugar mama (and proud of it!)
- How I Earn My Money
- Jump-start your career with a personal business model
- What To Do with an Old 401(k)
- The Importance of Salary Negotiation
- Make more money: How to supercharge your income
- On the Value of Networking
- Living Like a Millionaire on Pennies a Day
- Career Insurance: Insuring Your Most Valuable Asset
- How to Maximize Your Salary
- Unemployed? Underemployed? Here's how to get help
- The War on Work
- Working for Uncle Sam overseas
- Growing Your Human Capital: 11 Ways to Boost Your Income-Producing Ability
- I Got a 20% Pay Cut — and Loved It!
- Ask the readers: How do I survive until I get my first paycheck?
- I quit my job and joined the Peace Corps
- I Was a TV Freelancer (or Financial Planning and Job Instability)
- Is It Time To Quit Your Day Job?
- Taking care of business: Expense reimbursement
- Have a Financial Health Day…at Work
- 9 Sneaky Expenses That Eat Away at Your Income
- Invest in Your Most Important Income-Producing Asset
- Job Loss: Got a Financial Game Plan?
- Ask the readers: What if your high-paying job makes you miserable?
- Five steps to six figures in seven years
- 5 Ways To Rescue Your Rotten Résumé
- What's the difference between high-income earners and low-income earners?
- Employee or entrepreneur? The pros and cons of self-employment
- How to Nail an Interview: 20 Job Interview Tips
- Starting a business after a job loss
- Ask the Readers: Help! I've Been Laid Off!
- Ask the Readers: Is It Unethical to Work a Second Job?
- 10 essential steps to take BEFORE you're laid off
- The best recession-proof jobs
- Working from Home: What I've Learned in 8 Months as a Professional Blogger
- How Do You Turn Passion into a Career? (And Should You?)
- Network Your Way to Job Security
- The Difference Between a Career and a Job
- The informational interview: A job-hunter's secret weapon
- Beware of scams and pyramid schemes
- Life after school: Advice for new graduates
- I quit my job — What should I do with my 401k?
- Some Thoughts on Goals and Adult Education
- 6 Tips for Landing Your Dream Job
- How to Quit Your Job Gracefully
- The Pros and Cons of Working at Home
- How to Earn More from Your Current Job (Without a Raise or Promotion)
- The value of a college education
- Ask the Readers: Is Education Always a Good Investment?
- How to earn extra income through private tutoring
- Quitting the Day Job: Finding the Guts to Pursue Your Dreams
- Better Use of Leisure Time: Self-Improvement Tips from 1950
- Breaking the Shackles: How to Escape from Minimum Wage
- Who Earns Minimum Wage? A Statistical Profile
- Drama in Real Life: “You're Fired!”
- Traveling to Save: How to Get Paid to Live Overseas
- Requesting (and Receiving) the Raise You Deserve
- Getting the Guts to Relocate to a Cheaper City
- Career advice for the college graduate
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Find a Job?
- More money: 5 ways to earn extra cash in your spare time
- Become a Consultant to Defeat Debt Quickly
- Ask the Readers: How to Get Started in Life?
- What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
- How to Get the Most Out of a College Job
- On the road to nowhere: The true story of the worst job I ever had
- How to Give Yourself a Raise
Clothing
- Buy it for life: Choosing quality over price
- Quality versus crap: Why I bought $80 pajamas
- How to shop for high-quality clothes
- How to stop buying clothes you never wear
- Shirt tales: How to find clothes for your kids
- Spring-clean your closet and make money
- Professional shoe repair: Save money, time, and your feet
- The Value of an $8 Little Black Dress
- Getting Over the Overdraft: How I Started Saving
- Ask the Readers: How Much Do You Spend on Clothes?
- The Investment Piece: One Investment That's No Investment At All
- Cheap Solutions: Closet Organization
- My Year Without Clothes Shopping
- Giving away, not selling, my stuff
- Dress yourself for free: How to host a clothing swap
- The One-Year Wardrobe Project
- How to save while shopping for children's clothes
- Fashion on a Budget: Organizing and Updating Your Wardrobe for Spring
- Embracing the thrift-store ethic: 18 top tips for buying used clothes
- Old Clothes for the New Year
- Frugality in Practice: Air-Dry Your Clothes (Even Indoors!)
- Get More Bang for Your Buck by Using Coupons and Sales Wisely
- Crossing the Line from Frugal to Cheap
- Frugality in Practice: Fashion on a Budget
- Frugality in Practice: Bundle Up to Stay Warm
- Frugality in Practice: Shopping for Second-Hand Clothes
- Trunk Clothes: A Sure Sign You Have a Spending Problem
Credit
- A brief guide to the Equifax settlement — and how to get what you're owed
- How to cancel a credit card (without killing your credit score)
- Reader question: Does repaying a loan hurt your credit score?
- The Wise Use of Credit — Money lessons from 1960
- Your credit score — and why it matters
- How to use credit cards wisely: A definitive guide
- How to prevent identity theft (and: What to do if you're the victim of identity theft)
- Entrepreneurs Face Credit Challenges When Purchasing a Home
- How to use credit cards wisely
- 8 ways credit cards may cost you more than they should
- Do credit card rewards count as taxable income?
- Is living without credit cards the best way to stay out of debt?
- Ask the Readers: How do you monitor and improve your credit?
- One expense you have control of in ways you never thought
- No, credit cards are not evil
- What is phishing, vishing, and SMShing?
- 5 signs you might be a credit junkie
- Unexpected ways bad credit can ruin your day
- Could you say no to your mom?
- Your credit score and credit card rewards: 10 tips
- Avoiding credit card traps
- Ask the Readers: Would you give a child a credit card?
- 8 reasons you should throw away your cash-back credit card if you love to travel
- Churning credit cards for a fun profit
- Everything You Need to Know about Using Credit Card Bonuses for Free Travel
- No balance transfer fee credit card: Slate® from Chase
- My falling credit score (and why it's not the end of the world)
- The dangers of store credit cards (and how I got suckered into opening a store credit card)
- Do credit cards take from the poor and give to the rich?
- Ask the Readers: Which Credit Cards Do You Use — and Why?
- Beyond Credit Card Debt
- How I ruined my credit score, and how it didn't ruin my life
- How much does canceling credit cards affect your credit score?
- Ask the Readers: How Do I Pick the Best Credit Card?
- What the New Credit Card Laws Mean to YOU
- How to Establish a Credit History Without Losing Your Shirt
- A Call from Capital One
- A small mistake
- Should you write ‘SEE ID' or sign your credit cards?
- 5 Credit Card Company Tricks — and How to Thwart Them
- Credit Card Companies Are Closing Unused Accounts
- Like a Drug: Suze Orman on Credit Cards
- Know Your Consumer Rights When it Comes to Credit Cards
- Research Reveals Credit Cards Encourage Spending
- How and when to cancel a credit card
- How to choose a credit card
- Credit Card Basics: Five Essential Skills for Mastering Plastic
- Ask the Readers: The Psychology of Credit Cards?
- A Six-Year-Old with a Credit Card
- What to do about stolen mail?
- Ask the Readers: What's the Best Way to Compare Credit Cards?
- Using a home equity loan to pay off credit cards
- A quick trick for tracking credit card expenses in quicken
- How Those Evil Credit Cards Can Be Good for You
- An Imperfect Credit Score is Not the End of the World
- Why I Applied for a Credit Card (and Why It's Not the End of the World)
- They'll Give a Credit Card to Anyone These Days
- Proper care and feeding of your credit score
- A Review of MAXED OUT, a New Film About the Credit Industry
- Ask the Readers: Credit Emergency!
- I do not use credit cards
- How One College Student Handles Credit Cards
- The Only Credit Card Guide You'll Ever Need
- The Secret History of the Credit Card
- Is it Safe to Pay Bills with a Credit Card?
- How Many Credit Cards Should You Carry?
Debt
- How I learned to stop feeling hopeless about money
- Case study: Deep in debt but scared to take action
- Should you pay off your mortgage early?
- Case study: Starting with less than zero
- How to refinance your student loans
- Building a wealth snowball
- Money story: Life after debt
- How to get out of debt (without gimmicks or games)
- How one man took on the scumbag “phantom debt” industry
- Dave Ramsey's top 10 calls of 2017
- Visualizing your financial progress
- How one young couple repaid $87,000 of student loan debt in 27 months
- Creative Ways To Reduce Student-Loan Debt
- In Case Of Emergency: The College Credit Card
- 21 Ways to Stretch Your Dollar While in College
- Our Journey to College…and Debt
- How to use a balance transfer card for holiday debt
- Taking control of your mortgage debt
- 7 ways financial goals are like dieting
- How I Stopped Worrying About Money (Almost)
- Student loan repayment and the ethics of personal finance
- Pay off student loans or invest — how to move toward funding retirement
- Why investing can be better than repaying debt
- Maintaining liquidity as you reduce debt — how a savings account helps
- Side job helps chop 25-year payoff plan to 6 months
- Alternatives to the multi-generational survival tool
- How we saved big with a balance transfer
- Real-life case study: Should I save money or pay off debt?
- Life after debt — experimenting with financial balance
- What's your position on debt? Read this first
- Why bankruptcy should be your last resort
- Ask the Readers: How do you challenge your financial status quo?
- 10 money mistakes to avoid in your 20s
- How to Get Out of Debt on a Low Income
- Starting a garden to pay off debt: Really!?!
- Living in a car to pay off debt
- Your debt-paying personality
- An updated reckoning and why we became homeowners: Honey's story
- Could crowd funding help this guy pay off his mortgage?
- Car payments: ‘Til death do us part
- Student loan debt: Learning to save yourself
- Ask the Readers: What Do You Do When You're Broke?
- That truck
- Why paying with cash hurts (and why it should)
- #StudentLoanDebt is trending
- Free at last
- 4 steps to finding financial improvement
- Why I'm glad I took out student loans
- Empty goal syndrome: What to do when your last goal leaves the nest
- How I became a home entrepreneur to get out of debt
- My student loan story: How I paid it off in a year
- Ask the Readers: What is the next step?
- The hassle of being in debt
- Bouncing back from financial grief and loss
- New student loan payoff tool
- 10 financial lessons I learned from my parents’ divorce
- Getting rich slowly on my own terms
- Student loan saga: the next chapter
- How I almost got screwed by the CARD Act
- Frustrations with my new student loan servicer
- Ask the readers: Should you comment on a friend's overspending?
- Dodging Financial Bullets: A Tribute to My Ex
- Student loan debt: How I got in deep
- Are Universities Immoral?
- Surviving Student Loans
- Avoiding Student Loans Gave Me a Head Start in Life
- How My Upbringing Helped Me Avoid Debt and Build Wealth
- Continuing Education May Make You Wiser — But Richer?
- How My Nosy Family Taught Me About Money
- Paying for College: A High School Student's Quest to Stay Debt-Free
- Ask the Readers: How Can I Talk to My Parents about Money?
- Protecting Yourself Against Sexually-Transmitted Debt
- How Debt Put My Dreams on Hold
- Calibrating and Circumventing the Cost of College
- The Spectacle of Financial Difficulty
- How My Generosity Got Me $8,000 in Debt
- Ask the readers: What is my financial obligation to my family?
- How I Avoided Student Loans
- How to lend money to friends (without ruining the relationship)
- When to walk away from a bad mortgage
- Ask the readers: Should we buy our dream house?
- My Debt-Free Marriage
- Emergency fund vs. debt snowball: What's the top priority?
- How I Persevered and Killed My Credit Card Debt
- Help! My Debt Snowball Is Melting!
- Ask the readers: Should I sell my home to pay off my debt?
- Ask the readers: “Help! I co-signed on a loan and now I wish I hadn't!”
- Worth More Than Money: Taking A Detour on the Road to Riches
- Debt-Free by 30 — Including the Mortgage!
- The other side of bankruptcy
- I paid off $70,000 in debt and quit my job!
- Casting Stones: When Is It Okay to Judge?
- Is your spouse hiding debt? Recovering from financial infidelity
- A Drastic Change for Drastic Results
- I'm Done with Debt
- Our Financial Turnaround
- I was drowning in debt
- Calculate How Much Your Debt Costs You Per Month
- Confessions of a Gadget Junkie
- How I paid off $18,000 in student loans while still in graduate school
- A Cautionary Tale
- Turning Debt Repayment Into a Game
- How I Paid Off $18,500 in Debt
- How to get your free credit report online: A step-by-step guide
- Should you stop funding retirement to focus on debt?
- Pros and cons: 30-year mortgage vs. 15-year mortgage
- What Made You Care About Money?
- Ask the readers: How to face a family financial crisis?
- My Debt Story: An Introduction
- Beyond Frugality: What I Learned from Failure
- Hoping to Finish Ahead by Starting Behind
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Debtor
- Should Repaying Debt Be an Obsession?
- Ask the Readers: Debt Consolidation or Consumer Credit Counseling?
- Drama in Real Life: Foreclosure!
- Free debt snowball spreadsheet
- The Dirty Secrets of Debt Reduction (and What to Do About Them)
- Now and Then: How My Current Financial Situation Compares with a Decade Ago
- Ask the readers: “I'm doing well financially but my family is not”
- Ask the Readers: Pay Down Debt or Save for Retirement?
- Ask the Readers: “Help! I'm Living on Credit!”
- The Negative Saving Rate and the Age of Easy Credit
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Prepare for Enormous Debt?
- Are Mortgage Rates Tied to the Federal Funds Rate?
- What Are Debt Snowballs Made Of? Debt Snowflakes!
- Ready to Tackle Your Debt? Two Alternatives to Home Equity Loans
- Free at last! Saying good-bye to 20 years of debt
- The thrill of paying off a mortgage
- A Rough Guide to Repaying Student Loans
- Reader Advice: How to Live Debt-Free
- Ask the Readers: How to Live Debt-Free?
- Ask the Readers: Help! I'm in Debt!
- How to Eliminate Debt in Bursts Instead of Incrementally
- Ask the Readers: Should You Carry a Loan When You Can Afford Not To?
- The Debt to Pleasure: What is the Cost of Fun?
- Saving and Investing: Coping with High-Interest Debt
- Real-life choices: Retirement savings vs. debt reduction
- Tackling Debt Through Volunteer Work
- Ask the Readers: How Will My Family's Credit History Affect My Own?
- Ask the Readers: So Much Debt, So Little Time?
- In praise of the debt snowball
- 35% Interest: The Curse of the Unsolicited Loan Offer
- Pep Talk: Climb Out of Debt
- Two approaches to debt elimination
Earning Money
Economics
- How Americans spend money: A look at the latest Consumer Expenditure Survey
- Does the world of personal finance need more politics?
- Twenty years of U.S. government inflation data
- Why don't Americans save?
- The boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness
- A visual history of U.S. bull and bear markets since 1926
- What it means to be rich: The difference between income and wealth
- The relationship between time, money, and happiness
- 18 favorite financial rules of thumb (and some useful money guidelines)
- A brief history of U.S. homeownership
- How to think like a billionaire: Opportunity costs and conscious spending
- Your saving rate: The most important number in personal finance
- How much does the stock market return?
- How the economy works
- The plight of the poor: Thoughts on systemic poverty, fault, and responsibility
- The high cost of becoming an Olympic athlete
- How the things we own vary at different levels of net worth
- Winter is coming! How to prepare for the next recession BEFORE it arrives
- Daily life during the Great Depression
- How warehouse stores make money
- What the Brexit Vote Means for Your Wallet
- The fall and winter seasons of the economic cycle
- Recognizing economic seasons: recovery and growth
- Understanding economic cycles: An introduction
- What does Quantitative Easing mean for me now?
- If the recession is over, where are the jobs?
- Bad advice about having a baby I'm glad I followed
- Can you trust those government numbers?
- The new way to get rich slowly
- The ‘cost' of gun ownership
- HDHP with HSA: Friend or foe?
- Health insurance options for the self-employed
- Insurance: Choosing the right plan
- Insurance: Share the risk
- Free Box Economics
- Dollar Coins: Or, In Other Words, a New Tax
- Ask the Readers: When Is It Not Your Fault?
- A penny saved is a penny spurned? What to do with pockets full of change
- All that glitters: Why I'm not investing in gold
- The Time Value of Money (or Why 25 Years of Cable TV Doesn't Cost as Much as You Think)
- Want to Make More Money? Go Back to School!
- How We Became Reluctant Landlords
- Does saving stimulate the economy more than spending?
- Yes, You WILL Get Social Security
- Why I buy local
- Why Are Interest Rates So Low Right Now? (and Where Should You Put Your Money?)
- Social Capital and the Microeconomic Recovery
- Is a Weak Euro Good for U.S. Travelers?
- What Do Ancient Spice Traders and the Modern Financial Industry Have in Common?
- The Truth About Taxes
- Understanding the Federal Budget
- The spending habits of the average American
- The Ascent of Money
- The Fall and Rise of Personal Savings
- Three Lessons from Warren Buffett
- The New Age of Thrift
- Economic Stimulus and the Marginal Propensity to Consume
- Outside Looking In: How Others View Our Spending
- The National Economy Versus Your Personal Economy
- Faces of World Poverty: 20 Arresting Photographs
- Thoughts on the Financial Crisis from an Actual Economist
- The story of Stuff
- Economic Mobility and The American Dream
- Scratch Beginnings: An interview with Adam Shepard
- Convenience Store Economics
Education
- Seven things college freshmen don't need — and ten they do
- What I learned (and taught) at Fincon 2018
- Personal Finance for Engineers: An introduction to money management from Stanford University
- 7 Tricks That Helped Me To Become Financially Secure in College
- Ultimate Guide to Mastering Your Money in College
- Surviving Back-to-School Money Madness
- Preparing for College (and Life)
- 8 Tips to Reduce College Costs
- 7 sure-fire strategies to win college scholarships
- Strategies for an affordable college education
- How to develop your child's full potential
- How to minimize your grad school debt
- Pros and cons of homeschooling
- My unconventional plans to pay for my daughter's college education
- What to consider before you invest in a college education
- Saving for school
- The “Ivory Tower”: Reconsidering the college investment
- Why you must teach your children about money
- Teaching life skills to your children
- Why we aren't saving for our children's college educations
- Ask the Readers: What personal finance skills should college students learn?
- The Opposite of Spoiled: The Right Way to Teach Kids About Money
- The first step to teaching our kids about money
- Saving for college when time is on your side
- Ask the Readers: How can we help pay for nieces’ and nephews’ education?
- Back-to-School: The Hidden Financial Bonus for Parents
- A Pre-College Spending Frenzy
- Financial Education for Fifth Graders
- How My Parents and I Partnered on a Win-Win Savings Plan For College
- Is an MBA worth it?
- Debt-Free College Education as a Returning Student
- College Is a Big, Fat, Hairy Rip-Off! (But Save for It Anyway)
- College Savings: The Basics of Saving for College
- Three things the Amish taught me about money
- In Pursuit of Financial Education for All
- Ask the Readers: Can College Students Save Money?
- Financial Education: Are Schools Doing Enough?
- 27 money tips for college students
- Six steps to learning difficult subjects quickly
- Why I Love Community College
Food
- Food waste and food consumption in the United States
- An introduction to square-foot gardening
- Two months with HelloFresh: A quick look at the cost and quality of HelloFresh recipes
- Beating the latte factor: One money nerd's quest for the best cheap coffee
- HelloFresh review: Is a meal delivery service worth it?
- Grocery Shopping: Is it Eating Up Your Cash?
- How to create a frugal holiday dinner for four or more
- Brown bag lunch strategies for grown-ups
- How you and your community can improve your finances
- 3 ways to beat McDonald's All-Day Breakfast menu on speed and price
- So easy, it's barely cooking: Healthy, simple recipes
- 35 tips for packing a lunch your kid will eat
- Meal plans and delivery programs — costly or cost-effective?
- Pay what you want — and get what you need
- How to build community relationships
- Advantages of online grocery shopping
- How four families survived lean times
- Will canning your food save you money?
- Dinner ideas — cooking “flexipe” style to save money
- How to eat on $4/day
- Eating healthy on a slim budget
- Cutting grocery bills: Aldi and bulk-food stores
- My grandmother's home remedies
- Do expiration dates make us wasteful?
- How to meal plan and save some cash
- On money and happiness
- How a healthy lifestyle saved my money and my life
- A wine guide for frugal folks
- ‘Fallen Fruit' and the concept of sharing abundance
- My teens spent $400 on fast food last month (and how I learned to deal with it)
- Save money by cutting food waste
- New recipes on the cheap: The Pinterest strategy
- The sneaky sales strategies of your local grocery store
- Food fight: Waging a war against food waste
- Preventing freezer burnout
- Once-a-month cooking made easy
- Ask the Readers: What is your favorite ‘no-money fun'?
- Which is Cheaper: In the Kitchen
- The Benihana Effect: Lifestyle Inflation in Action
- The Reckoning (or, What Mint Revealed)
- (Yes, You Can) Learn to Cook
- Thinking Outside the Lunchbox: Brown-Bagging Without Boredom
- Stepping off the Foodie-Go-Round
- Want to save on groceries? Cook like a peasant
- Questioning the Norm: Storing Fruits and Veggies
- Three Game Plans for a DIY Valentine's Day
- How to stock your liquor cabinet on the cheap
- Buying Wine Online – Savings Tips for Frugal Sips
- The 30-Day No-Restuarant Challenge
- The Great Cost of Halloween Chocolate
- A Minor Mistake: Shopping While Hungry
- Food Fight: Does Healthy Food Have to Be More Expensive?
- Ask the Readers: How Much Do You Spend on Food?
- The financial cost of obesity
- What to Do with Fresh Produce
- Best Sources for Summer Produce
- My First Garden: What I’ve Learned So Far
- Breakfast on the fly — and on the cheap
- How to Grow Your First Garden
- Recipe: Spicy Pickled Carrots
- Compound Returns in the Garden: How Long-Term Planning Pays Off When Growing Your Own Food
- Fight Rising Prices by Building Your Own Food Bank Pantry
- Beyond Tupperware: Frugal food storage
- Live to 100 – For Cheap!
- Wine on a budget: How to get good deals on wine
- Waste Less Food, Save More Money
- How I Save Tons of Money by Grocery Shopping Once Every Three Months
- How to use a food dehydrator to preserve your harvest
- Save Money by Baking Your Own Bread
- Save Money by Carrying a Water Bottle
- Extreme personal finance: Eating well on one dollar a day
- Get Kitchen Gadgets for Less at the Local Restaurant Supply Store
- The savvy shopper's guide to the farmers' market
- Four cheap and healthy grains
- The art of the potluck
- Five Festive Christmas Cookies to Share with Family and Friends
- The Best Pot Roast Ever: A Frugal Recipe for November
- Slash Your Grocery Bill With Store-Brand Products
- A Visit to the Island of Misfit Foods
- Buying food: Grocery shopping tips from 1950
- Two Frugal Summer Recipes: Thai Tuna Salad and Asian Pickles
- Cut Your Food Costs With a Stand-Alone Freezer
- 3 Easy and Delicious Ways to Preserve Your Berry Harvest
- An Experiment in Cheap Living (from 1872)
- How to save money on food: Great tips from three years of Get Rich Slowly
- Gary Vaynerchuk: 12 Wines for Under $12
- A Frugal Dinner with Friends
- How to Save $100 (or More) at the Grocery Store This Month
- Starting seeds indoors: Jump-start your garden today
- Recession Romance: Make a Delicious Valentine's Day Dinner at Home
- 7 tips for starting your own vegetable garden
- Finding Good Wines at Great Prices: Expert Advice for Frugal Wine Lovers
- From the Kitchen: Pumpkin Butter and Pumpkin Muffins
- Once-a-Month Shopping: Save More by Shopping Less
- How to make your own canned salsa
- Fighting Food-Budget Killers
- U-Pick: The Next Best Thing to Growing Your Own
- Hidden Price Increases at the Grocery Store
- Urban Fruit Gleaning: Harvesting Fresh Fruit in the Middle of the City
- Gardening Basics: What to Do with All That Extra Zucchini
- Easy and cheap home-made bread
- Saving at the Supermarket: 15 Great Grocery Shopping Tips
- How to Make Your Own Small-Batch Strawberry Jam
- Buying cheap spices: Unit pricing in action
- Unit pricing: Get more food for less money
- Use raspberry leaves to make your own herbal tea
- Strawberry Fruit Dip: A Quick and Easy Recipe for May
- Oven-Roasted Asparagus: A Quick and Frugal Recipe for April
- Cinnamon Spice Muffins: An Easy, Frugal Recipe for March
- The Lazy Man's Guide to Groceries on a Budget
- Hearty Baked Potato Soup: A Quick and Frugal Recipe for January
- The GRS garden project: How much does a garden really save?
- Taco Soup: A Cheap and Delicious Use for Ground Beef
- How to Eat at a Swanky Restaurant Without Blowing Your Monthly Food Budget
- Frugality in Practice: Home-Made Grape Juice
- How to feed yourself for $15 a week
- From the Frugal Kitchen: How to Make Bread-and-Butter Pickle Slices
- The Grocery Game
- Grocery store vs. Farmers Market: Which has the cheapest produce?
- 16 ways to eat healthy while keeping it cheap
- Pick Your Own: A Brief Guide to the Berry Patch
- Simple Homemade Chicken Stock Using a Supermarket Rotisserie Chicken
- Frugality in Practice: Planting Time
- Frugality in Practice: The Garden in Spring
- Un-Frugal: The Curse of Forgotten Leftovers
- How to Eat Vegetarian on the Cheap
- Gardening 101: Plan Today for Summer Success
- Making the most of cheap cuts of beef
- DIY Microwave Popcorn
- How to buy a side of beef
- Keep Track of Food with a Leftovers List
- Reader Tip: Save Money on Iced Coffee Drinks
- A Cheaper Cup of Coffee
- 17 Ways to Save Big at the Supermarket
- Things Your Supermarket Won't Tell You
- Tip: Citrus Ice Cubes
- Once-a-Month Cooking: Cooking for the Rushed
- Frugality in Practice: The Lunch Special
Frugality
- The virtue of thrift
- How I learned to stop worrying and love DIY
- Why frugality is an important part of personal finance
- The best of both worlds: How to find quality products without spending a lot of money
- Spending rate versus saving rate
- Money story: My no-shopping experiment
- When to buy cheap airline tickets
- Time is money: How frugality buys freedom — tomorrow AND today
- Money story: I was a frugal jerk
- How we watch TV without cable (and how much it costs)
- Black Friday vs. Buy Nothing Day
- Where to find affordable furniture
- How to Watch NCAA March Madness Basketball Without Cable (and Save Big)
- How to Save Money on Thanksgiving Day
- Community Supported Agriculture and Your Budget: Is It Worth It?
- Senior Discounts: Adding to Those Happy Golden Years
- How to Cut the Cable Cord in 5 Easy Steps
- Tips to Spend Less Money
- Save Bucks on Lower Gas Prices
- Save money on your bike commute
- Talking turkey about Black Friday savings
- How do you entertain out-of-town guests for free?
- What discounts can I get with a student ID?
- Your turn: Taming the ‘I wants' when money is tight
- 11 frugal ways to prepare for an emergency
- Keeping a Pet Healthy on a Budget
- Summertime reads: How to get cheap or free books
- Why you should avoid sales tax holidays
- 5 ideas for a productive staycation
- Ideas for a cheap vacation
- 7 things camping can teach you about money
- 11 ways to entertain your kids this summer for free (with stuff you already have!)
- 5 times to leave landscaping to the professionals
- 12 ways to celebrate Memorial Day this weekend
- How to deal with expensive friends
- Ask the readers: Cheap luggage or expensive luggage?
- Caring for your garden tools
- How to save money on family vacations
- Ask the readers: How are you saving on spring break?
- How to use coupons effectively
- How to save money on dental bills
- Ask the Readers: Do you use technology to save money?
- Financial benefits of solar panels? Not so fast!
- How to raise a frugal child
- Questions to ask before paying more for quality
- Saving money when you have no time
- The pros of experiencing the cons of poverty
- Cold and flu season: Stock your medicine cabinet for less
- Money extremes: From spendthrift to tightwad to somewhere in the middle
- 4 ways to make money with your old junk
- Cheap ways to enjoy the sunshine (or hide from it) this summer
- Our brains on scarcity: The trap of not having enough
- In defense of frugality
- Opposites Attract–What to do when you’re both of different financial mindsets
- Giving makes us happier, but what if you don't have much to give?
- Another visit with the real Millionaire Next Door
- Spending less than you earn so the Joneses don't keep up with you
- Finding the road out of poverty
- Pick your hobbies strategically and save
- Before and after: A $6 ceiling fan makeover
- Being frugal really isn’t that hard
- Saving money with my feet: The joys of a walkable neighborhood
- A blessing in disguise
- Millennials aren't as bad with money as everyone thinks
- How much frugal is too much frugal?
- The power of speaking up
- Yes, you can do yoga on a budget
- 10 tools and tips to save money on legal fees
- Things that babies just don't need
- Making memories without breaking the bank
- Buy Nothing Year: Changing how we spend
- Libraries: Good for frugality, great for community
- How I canceled cable and gained a new outlook on life
- Smartphone, dumb mobile plan
- Can you be friends with rich people?
- The spam email strategy for savings
- Ask the Readers: What lifestyle changes have you made to improve your finances?
- The 5 most popular coupon sites (and one with a mission)
- My plans for a fun and frugal summer
- Ask the Readers: What will you trade this month?
- Defining a healthy dose of lifestyle inflation
- Ask the Readers: Do you save more or less than your parents?
- Extreme weather and recreational costs
- Minimalist parenting: The frugal choice
- A spring-cleaning discovery
- How to save money on vet bills
- Battle of the toy bulge
- Romanticizing poverty and learning financial independence
- Ask the Readers: Why will you teach your children frugality?
- Resisting the holiday spending trap
- New life for old DVD movies: The answers to scratches and breaks
- Ask the Readers: How do you build an inexpensive care package?
- Beyond money: How my community saves me, part two
- Bid for savings at an auction
- Mutual mooching: How my community saves me money, part one
- Ask the Readers: What odd things have you done to save money?
- Frugality and Financial Independence
- 25 Ways to Give (Without Breaking the Bank)
- Frugality: Welcome Challenge or Only a Chore?
- Cutting Costs on Transportation (Even When Biking and Walking Aren't Options)
- Can’t Afford to Socialize? Compromise!
- How I Use Superfrugality Month to Curb Lifestyle Inflation
- Saying Good-Bye to a 16-Year-Old Car
- Professional sports: A waste of time, money, and energy?
- Be a Budget Traveler…in Your Own Town
- I Run My Errands, Too! (And Other Ways to Spend Less)
- 27 Frugal Uses for a Dead Phone Book
- Home haircuts can save time and money
- Five easy ways to save money
- How I Save Money While Traveling
- 8 Questions to Help You Save More
- A Frugal, Happy Life
- Stealth Savings: Sneaky Ways to Fatten Your Account
- Frugality Advice from Millionaires
- 20 Ways to spend $20
- That’s a Wrap: Some Alternatives to Traditional Gift-Wrapping
- Cashing in on Craigslist: How I've saved thousands of dollars buying used
- Why I love the megabus: A closer look at a seldom-used (but cheap!) way to travel
- Smart ways to save money
- How to Get Cheap Drugs
- Paying for What You Could Get Free
- How to Save on Your Cell Phone Plan with Secret No-Contract Deals
- Frugal Back-to-School Shopping
- More Thoughts on Frugal Beauty
- Frugal beauty: How to look good on a budget
- The Product of Frugal Parents
- How to Spend Money (Even If You Think You Shouldn't)
- 10 Ways to Build a Gift Closet That's Both Deep and Cheap
- The Costs and Savings of Bicycle Commuting
- Discounted Gift Cards: The New Coupon
- How I built my own house — without a mortgage
- Celebrating Frugal Role Models
- When does minimalism go too far?
- How I Learned About Frugality from De-Cluttering
- Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without
- Ask the Readers: A Fool and His Money…
- Emergency Preparedness on a Shoestring
- Becoming a Groupon Groupie
- Getting Creative with Budget Travel
- Frugality and the Long-Distance Relationship
- Five DIY Valentine's Day Ideas for Frugal Sweethearts
- Ask the readers: How do I motivate my boyfriend to save money?
- Getting paid to tell lies: Mystery Shopping as a frugal hack
- A non-consumer Christmas: Simple gifts for kids and grown-ups
- Ask the Readers: Is It Okay to Buy a Christmas Gift from a Thrift Store?
- How to Feed Your Soul for Cheap: 12 Ways to Enjoy High Culture for Less
- How to Lower Your Heating Bills This Winter
- Inexpensive Gift Ideas for Christmas (and Beyond!)
- Pedaling Toward Financial Freedom
- Cheap Things You Never Use Are No Bargain
- Swapping Convenience for Low Costs
- Man to Live Off Coupons for One Year
- Save money on shipping with free boxes from USPS
- Take Only Photographs: Frugal Souvenirs
- Rich dad, stingy dad
- How to Save Money While Traveling
- What Should You Buy Used? What Should You Buy New?
- The Rewards of Frugality and Thrift (or, Why We Scrimp and Save)
- Living on (a Lot) Less
- Surviving and Thriving
- Traveling cross-country dirt cheap
- Save Money by Reducing Subscriptions and Avoiding Long-Term Contracts
- Finding Frugal Fun with Board Games
- How I got married on the cheap — and loved it!
- The best time to buy almost everything
- How I cut my Comcast cable bill by 33% (without losing any service)
- 9 Ways to Give — Even When Times Are Tough
- Creative Cleaning with Everyday Products
- The Art of Improvising: Alternatives to Buying New
- The Pitfalls of Buying in Bulk
- Small Amounts Matter
- Spend less than you earn
- Sweating the Big Stuff
- How to shop at an estate sale
- Frugality in Practice: Alternate Modes of Transportation
- Where to find free activities and events in your area
- How to Use Couchsurfing to See the World
- Extreme Personal Finance: Daniel Suelo, The Man Without Money
- Our Frugal Weekend
- The Secret Millionaire and the Mathmobile
- Ask the Readers: What Makes You Feel Rich While Being Frugal?
- How to Live a Rich Life — On a Budget
- Learning to Do It Yourself
- The secrets of financial freedom: An interview with the millionaire next door
- Saving Money and the Environment: Where Green and Frugal Meet
- A Very Small Adventure: Riding the Bus
- Start a SwapLuck to Share the Things You Make and Do
- WhiteFence helps you find deals on utilities
- Oversaving does not lead to happiness
- Repair, Restore, Rejoice: Making the Most of Home Appliances
- Why I drive a 13-year-old car
- Learning to live modestly
- Alternatives to Buying New
- How to Afford Anything (But Not Everything)
- Things It's Cheaper to Do Yourself
- How Low Can You Go? Cutting Back to Minimum
- Quick and Easy Car Maintenance: Change Your Oil and Inflate Your Tires
- Five Tactics for Pursuing Voluntary Simplicity
- Cheap Vacation: Be a Tourist in Your Own Hometown
- The Art of Frugal Living
- The benefits of barter
- Bargain Summer Vacation Destinations
- How to Save Hundreds by Playing the Drugstore Game
- Get Quality Stuff For Cheap from Local College Students
- A real millionaire next door
- Wedding registries: A love-hate relationship
- Frugality in Practice: Turn Your Junk Mail into Garden Mulch
- Ask the Readers: Energy Conservation Tips?
- Frugality in practice: The DIY footrest
- How to get rid of ants (Without calling an exterminator)
- Ask the readers: What can I do if my girlfriend isn't serious about money?
- Frugality in Practice: Home-Based Physical Fitness
- Dumb Money: The Movie Theater
- How to prepare for a baby (without going broke)
- My Frugal Valentine: Cheap Ways to Say “I Love You”
- 21 Money-Saving Sites from Around the Web
- A life well-lived is not about the bling
- Frugality Doesn't Have to Mean Sacrificing Quality
- Frugality in practice: Keeping warm in winter
- How 15 Minutes Saved Me 15% on My Television Bill
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Keep Frugality Fun and Interesting?
- Frugality is NOT a dirty word
- Want to save the environment? Buy less stuff!
- Frugality in Practice: Do-it-Yourself Home Maintenance
- The Frugal Collector: 10 Ways to Curb the Habit
- Why I Love the County Fair
- Thrifty Tips for Shopping Garage Sales from the Yardsale Queen
- How to Start a Family Without Breaking the Bank
- Frugality in Practice: Small Victories
- How to Save a Dollar
- How To Escape the Gift Trap
- Ask the readers: What if you're frugal but your roommates aren't?
- Christmas in June: Save Money with Homemade Gifts
- Necessity is the Mother of Frugality
- Personal finance on film: The Farmer's Wife
- Frugality in Practice: One Man's Trash
- Frugality in Practice: A Cheap Defense Against Weeds
- Sometimes a Cheap Meal is Expensive
- Save Money with a Magazine Exchange
- Frugality in Practice: Cheap Neighborhood Entertainment
- The cost-per-day expense chart
- Throw Away your TV and Save a Bundle!
- The Regift: Friend or Foe?
- Want to Save Money? Just Ask!
- Cheap Ways to Stay Warm this Winter
- Frugality in Practice: The Library Book Sale
- How Not to Be Frugal: Too Many Magazine Subscriptions
- Frugality in Practice: Neighborhood Exchange
- An Introduction to Homesteading
- On Meeting and Resisting Temptation
- Cheap Hobbies: Getting Started with Naked-Eye Astronomy
- Make Some Noise to Save Some Money
- Raising a Family on One Income
- Frugal Tendencies on Vacation, Day One
- Programmable Thermostats: A Three-Month Review
- Cheap Ways to Chill Out
- Frugality in Practice: Free is a Very Good Price
- Frugality in Practice: At the Movies
- Don't Confuse Frugality With Depriving Yourself
- Is It Possible to Be a Frugal Collector?
- 26 cheap camping tips
- Penny Pinchers: I Want My Four Dollars
- Penny Pinchers: Pop Buys Pop
- The Frugal Photographer
- Frugality in Practice: Using the Public Library
- Save Money With Magazines
- Frugality in Practice: Shaking That New Car Itch
- Frugality in Practice: Back Porch Furniture
Giving
- The perfect gift is cheap and easy
- How (and where) to donate unwanted Christmas presents
- Keeping the spirit of Christmas alive
- The problem with the “perfect” gift
- Charity, hobby, or mistake? The cat we didn't keep
- Surviving Christmas: A post-holiday checklist
- Ask the Readers: What brings out the Scrooge in you?
- Tax-efficient charitable giving
- ‘Tis the Season for an Autopsy of Last Year’s Holiday
- Expectations and Your Money
- Why I still pick up pennies
- Ask the Readers: How Much Do You Spend on Gifts?
- Ask the readers: What are the moral implications of spending?
- Getting the most from your charitable deductions
- Christmas Gifts That Make a Difference
- Using Consumerism for Social Good
- Social Capital: More Valuable Than Money?
- Give your wealth away: An argument for a secular tithe
- Giving to Receive: What Legacy Will You Leave?
- Why Do You Want to Be Rich?
- A DIY budget Christmas: 99 great gifts to start right now
- When Is It Okay to Give?
Health & Fitness
- Welcome to fifty: My first health scare as a middle-aged man
- The big fat truth: J.D. Roth interviews JD Roth
- The High Cost of Working Sick
- What's the Cure for the High Cost of Prescriptions?
- How to Spend FSA Money
- Open Enrollment 2016 dates and how to shop for health insurance
- Medical identity theft: The identity theft no one is talking about
- How can retirement affect your health?
- What does it cost to commute?
- How the new healthcare law changes maternity care
- My experience with alternative health insurance to Obamacare
- Ask the Readers: Are you reaching your goals?
- The high cost of infertility
- Ask the readers: How much are you willing to spend to save a sick pet?
- One way to survive without health insurance
- The shocking truth about medical bills that can save you thousands
- Take a deep breath: Letting go of financial stress
- More fun with life and death
- HSA pros and cons
- Turning Long-Term Goals Into Short-Term Goals (and Not Getting Fat Along the Way)
- Letting Things Fester: The Art of Cultivating Misery
- Survival Techniques for the Barely Insured
- Hunting for Health Insurance
- 10 Tips to Save Money on Your Prescriptions
- Make the Choice Not to Decay
- Cheap Ways to Relieve Your Aching Back
- Prepare to get sick
- The cost of being an overachiever
- Going to the (Organic) Mattresses
- Ask the Readers: How Much Do You Spend on Health Insurance?
- 5 Free Ways to De-Stress
- Want to Save Money? Slow Down
- Health is Wealth: The Best Investment I Ever Made
- Fitness Rewards: Break a Sweat without Breaking the Bank
- Financial Health vs. Mental Health?
- Your health is your most important asset
- How I Purchased Private Health Insurance
- Slow and Steady: More Thoughts on Physical and Financial Fitness
- Getting Paid to Lose Weight with HealthyWage
- Money, Stress, and Your Health
- The psychology of happiness: 13 steps to a better life
- Earn quick cash by participating in medical research and marketing studies
- Finding Affordable Health Insurance When You're On Your Own
- Ads I Hate: Athletic Clubs
- An Expert Tip for Saving on Prescription Drugs
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Manage Health Care Costs When You're On Your Own?
- How a Wellness Coach Whipped Me Into Shape
- The High Cost of Being Fat
- Why Don't Doctors Know How Much Their Services Cost?
- How I finally defeated dandruff
- How to Walk for Fun and Profit
- A Brief Guide to Better Sleep
Home & Garden
- Outsourcing my life: Why I pay others to do tasks I could do myself
- The advantages of buying and owning a home
- Is your home a better investment than the stock market?
- The proactive homeowner: How to stay on top of home improvement
- Does the American Dream require a big American home?
- Is it better to rent or buy? How to know when renting a home makes sense
- The high cost of homeownership
- Cost of living: Why you should choose a cheap place to live
- I just organized my files, and here's what I did
- Great small cities for millennials (or anyone seeking affordable urban spaces)
- Why you should make a home your first investment
- Should you buy a home or invest?
- Do you practice retiring?
- We're eating our house!
- The sharing economy and taxes
- Replacing our HVAC: From estimates to installation to rebates
- How long will mortgage rates stay low?
- Ask the readers: Are home security systems worth the money?
- Lifestyle inflation: How to decide if it's ever okay
- How not to approach rising home prices
- Fire: Oh, that will never happen to me
- Buying rental property: Sometimes getting rich means taking it slowly
- The most money I've ever lost
- Looking out for your finances as a renter
- Challenging traditional measures of financial success: Homeownership
- Saving your sanity (and your budget) this summer vacation
- 8 Surprise expenses for new homeowners
- Foreclosure from the tenant's perspective: Honey's story
- Why home prices are climbing again, and what you should do about it
- How to spring clean your financial house
- Maximizing your dollar: Renovating a historic house for the rental market
- How to winterize your home
- Home remodeling — when you can't (or don't want to) DIY
- In the kitchen: When less is more
- Moving scams: Avoid the headache by checking consumer reviews
- When the right choice isn't obvious
- 7 Money-saving strategies that can cost you more
- The last straw: We're moving
- The small house experiment
- The day my dishwasher died
- How to make room for redecorating in your budget
- Refinancing in the post-financial-crisis economy
- Declutter and save your sense
- Ask the readers: Post-divorce — buy out wife or sell house?
- Ask the Readers: What will you repair this month?
- I bought a foreclosure house on the courthouse steps
- 6 ways to lower your home insurance
- How to throw a yard sale when you're an apartment dweller
- Are you prepared to buy a home?
- I bought a duplex to save money on rent
- 5 reasons to refinance your mortgage
- Oops, I may have broken my nest egg
- Will a low appraisal wreck your refi?
- Ask the readers: How much rent should I charge my in-laws?
- Stuff: How to protect it
- How badly would a disaster affect you?
- An ode to the condo lifestyle
- Being a landlord: Is it worth it?
- Should you buy a fixer-upper?
- Selling Your Home? Don’t Make This Costly Mistake
- In Defense of Clutter
- Is Now a Good Time to Rent?
- Dream home or dream life?
- Ask the Readers: Should I Buy a New House?
- Sheet dreams: How to shop for bed sheets
- How to buy quality furniture
- Home insurance and pipes that go ‘pop' in the night
- How One Decision Can Help You Retire Faster
- Let go of the spatula: Reconsidering wedding registries
- The Money Fix
- How we paid cash for our first home
- A place of my own
- Can a Saver Learn to Spend?
- The Economics of Country Mouse vs. City Mouse
- Long-Term Thinking Pays Off
- Our roof repair: A typical tale of working with contractors
- Old Friends: Scenes from a Class Reunion
- Preparing for an Emergency
- How Much Is a Clean Home Worth?
- 10 easy ways to lower your electric bill
- When Renting Is Smarter Than Buying
- How I Sold My Condo and Saved $5,000
- Big House, Little House
- Buying a home? Pay attention to property inspection
- The basic allowance for housing: Helping military members afford a home
- Rental properties from the tenant's point of view
- Do programmable thermostats really save money?
- Saving for Something Close to Home
- Living on less in Mexico
- Geographic arbitrage: Save money by leaving the country
- Setting your homebuying priorities – price, quality, location: Pick any two
- Ask the Readers: Should We Move to a More Expensive Part of the Country?
- How to slay energy vampires
- Moving? Rent first, ask questions later
- I Paid for Graduate School by Renting out Rooms
- Unusual abodes: The grain bin home
- Bigger isn't always better: Remembering to appreciate what I already have
- How quickly wants can turn to needs
- Home Safe Home? 27 Safety Precautions Under $40
- Further Adventures in Home Maintenance
- How I generate extra income by letting strangers pay my rent
- I bought a fire station for my first home
- Living Like No One Else
- How I made my peace with hiring a housekeeper
- How My Real Estate Investing Adventure Came to an End
- Lessons Learned from Rushing Into Real-Estate Investing
- Does renting make sense?
- Rental Properties for the Average Joe
- How I bought an 8-unit apartment building with no money down and walked away with $1000 cash at closing
- How I Cut 16 Years from My Mortgage in Just One Hour
- Is a Reverse Mortgage Right for You?
- Furniture and scambags: Adventures on Craigslist
- A Very, Very Fine House
- How much house do you need?
- Which Comes First: The House or the Nest Egg?
- 9 ways you can knock the socks off your next landlord
- Use a Lease Option to Lock in Low Home Prices
- Furniture shopping secrets: How to tell superior from shoddy
- Renters Insurance: Peace of Mind for Ten Bucks a Month
- Should You Buy It? A Flowchart for Evaluating Potential Purchases
- Further Adventures in My War on Stuff
- Understanding your home appraisal
- How to Buy a Mattress
- How My Parents Saved $14,000 on Home Repairs
- Remnants of Things Past
- Coping with Life's Little Setbacks
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Choose a Mortgage Broker?
- The neighborhood plant swap
- Why Our Heating Bill Ballooned This Winter
- The high cost of having children
- Kansas or bust: Considering cost of living
- Why You Shouldn't Keep a Mortgage Just for the Tax Deduction
- Refinancing Made Easy: Our Story
- Ask the readers: How to rent out your spare room?
- How to Save $5000 a Year — As a Homeowner or a Renter
- 6 must-have characteristics to look for when buying a home
- Plant a Tree to Add Beauty and Value to Your Home
- My Family Financial History (As Told by My Mother)
- Drama in Real Life: Burgled Again
- The First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit
- Dealing with Disaster: A Brief Guide to Emergency Preparedness
- Could tithing lead some Americans to lose their homes?
- How to Prepare for Buying a Home
- Selling your existing home while buying a new one
- 11 Tips for First-Time Homebuyers
- Estimate Your Electricity Costs with a Web-Based Calculator
- Guarding Against the Invasion of Stuff
- How to Stop Junk Mail in Its Tracks
- Suze Orman's ultimate protection portfolio (and a do-it-yourself alternative)
- Possessed: People Who are Ruled by Stuff
- Home-Made Treats for Backyard Birds
- Ask the Readers: How to Choose VOIP Telephone Service?
- Energy Star: Saving Money Through Energy Efficiency
- Mortgage prepayment made easy: Own your home in half the time
- The Pros and Cons of an Interest-Only Mortgage
- The New York Times rent vs. buy calculator
- Ask the Readers: Buy a Home, or Max Out Retirement Savings?
- Learning to love the not-so-big house
- Accelerated Mortgage Payments (and the GRS Amortization Calculator)
- Is a money merge account a good way to pay off your mortgage?
- Extreme Personal Finance: From Penthouse to RV
- Blow-by-Blow Account of a Housing Addition
- Renting vs. buying: The realities of home-ownership
- Fact or Fiction: Can a Rain Barrel Save You Money?
- How to Find a Contractor: It's Not Just About Price
- 7 Mistakes That Make Homeowners Targets for Burglars
- Save Money on Plumbing Whether or Not You Do It Yourself
- Review: Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor
- Remodeling a Home and the Little Surprises
- Broken Window, Stolen Goods
- What Happens When You Try to Get Rich Quickly
- Buying a Home
- Saving Electricity: How to Reduce Your Energy Costs
Insurance
- How to get what you deserve when filing an insurance claim
- 5 ways to reduce the pain of the inevitable
- What kind of insurance do drivers like me buy?
- Ask the Readers: Are these good enough reasons to buy life insurance?
- One year later: The benefits and tragedies of self-employment
- Ask the Readers: What benefits have you seen from the Affordable Care Act?
- Ask the readers: High-deductible health insurance: yea or nay?
- Ask the Readers: Would you let your insurance company monitor your driving for a discount?
- That time I got hit by a drunk driver
- Ask the Readers: 4 options for the next step
- Insurance: An easier way to comparison shop
- Preparing for the inevitable
- Risk-a-Palooza: All that can go wrong and how to prevent it
- Is long-term care insurance worth it?
- Risks That Can Derail Your Retirement
- Traffic violations and your auto insurance
- How Much is Pet Insurance?
- Insurance basics: How car insurance works
- Insurance basics: How to save on insurance
- Insurance basics: How insurance works
- Instructions for the Afterlife: Preparing for the Inevitable
- How Much Life Insurance Do You REALLY Need?
- Reader question: How much life insurance do you need?
- How I Saved Hundreds of Dollars on Insurance
- Recession-Proofing Your Life Insurance
- 14 Tips for Purchasing Life Insurance
- An introduction to life insurance
- We're All Going to Die Someday: Making Informed Insurance Choices
- The disability insurance maze: How to select and purchase a policy
- A brief introduction to insurance
- 10 Expert Tips for Saving on Car Insurance
Investing
- The best investing apps for 2019
- Which matters more for building wealth: Your saving rate or your investment returns?
- What we talk about when we talk about risk
- How to get started with real estate investing
- The Get Rich Slowly investment philosophy and strategy
- The parking lot attendant worth half a million bucks
- The power of compounding: How your wealth snowball grows with time
- Best Online Brokers for Small Investors and Beginners 2018
- How to invest: An essential guide
- How mutual fund fees can cost you big bucks
- Returns are almost never average
- The difference between investing and speculation (or: The problem with Bitcoin)
- Retirement investing with the bucket system
- How to Invest $1,000, $10,000, or $100,000
- Beginners' Guide to Investing
- Survey: 71% of Americans are Behind on Retirement Savings
- Retirement Strategies: How are you Doing?
- Is an annuity a good investment?
- 11 Things to Know about Bonds
- How to Open a SEP-IRA
- How to Hire a Financial Planner (or Not)
- How to maximize returns while minimizing investment risk
- Why buying individual stocks is a bad idea
- Starting to save for retirement at 40
- Social investing in the wake of the Volkswagen scandal: Have your say
- When investing in yourself is wise
- How to Invest in Index Funds
- What is an index fund exactly?
- Investing 101: A primer on mutual funds
- Overcoming the fear of investing
- Your teen's summer jobs could be their first million
- What the Chinese stock market crash can teach you
- Why gold should be part of your investment portfolio
- Should gold be part of my portfolio?
- The rise of alternative investments
- How to ladder CDs
- Hidden advantages of savings accounts
- What should your investment priorities be?
- How to evaluate mutual funds to boost your returns
- Heed the Ghost of Yourself Yet to Come
- Tips for the First-time Investor
- Women, insecurity and money: Overcoming the confidence gap
- What is your investment strategy?
- Indexing vs. stock-picking: You don't have to choose sides
- Should you consider ETFs for your portfolio?
- Average 401(k) Balance by Age
- Investing: Two ways to beat average returns
- Can you really get rich quickly from fix and flipping homes?
- I was intimidated by investing, but here's how I got started
- You can learn how to make money investing: Just do it!
- Ask the readers: Whom do you turn to for money advice, humans or robots?
- Ask the readers: How do you balance multiple sinking funds?
- What to do during the “What's Next?” stage of finance
- How close are you?
- Act surprised: Your wedding ring is a terrible investment
- The pursuit of passive income: Is it time to become a landlord?
- Ask the Readers: Should you transfer a Class A mutual fund savings account to a Roth IRA?
- How will the new Small Business Capital Act affect you?
- What are dividend reinvestment plans?
- Professional investment advice (and why you should ignore it)
- How to get started investing
- Investing Ideas that Avoid the Stock Market
- How to handle a windfall
- Your future … seriously
- The Sheep and the Wolves: Smart investing made simple
- How I kept saving even during a job loss
- What is market timing, and should you do it?
- Develop your investing edge to become a better investor
- The one-page guide to financial freedom
- Understanding the IPO process
- What you wouldn't want to hear from your adviser
- What are savings for?
- A Meeting With My Financial Adviser
- Treasury yield: The most important economic metric
- Investment Workout: 6 drills to cut the flab on a portfolio
- 5 ways to get over the money blues
- How to avoid hiring a shady financial adviser
- Thoughts on Financial and Personal Independence
- 7 rules for growing slow (but sustainable) wealth
- Confessions of a former online trading broker
- Easy ways to give your 401(k) a tune-up
- Five factors for your asset allocation
- Is the Roth right for you?
- Where to put your next investment
- Coverdell Savings Account: Definition, Pros and Cons
- Understanding fundamental and technical analysis
- The importance of number crunching
- Will you have what you need when you need it?
- How to audit your own investments
- Are there any safe investments?
- Invest in this: How I pick stocks
- The stock market has recovered, but have you?
- Ask the Readers: What will you invest in this month?
- The most powerful ways to secure your retirement
- Evaluating financial advisors
- Dividends or bust: Thinking critically about investment
- The most important decision you’ll make about your portfolio
- Fear of investing: Divide(nd) and conquer!
- The consumer, the ower and the owner
- A few things to consider before becoming an expatriate
- Making friends in ‘God's Waiting Room'
- Is investing optional?
- 5 principles of fund investing, as illustrated by a zombie
- How Wall Street eats a third of your savings and makes you work longer
- Get Free Financial Planning Help
- How to Pick the Best Darned Account for You
- Community-sourced Investing: Should You Fund Capital Improvements?
- Is Your Money in the Right Place?
- How to invest using direct stock purchase plans
- Your 401(k) Stinks, and Here’s What to Do About It
- What is a Roth IRA? A short and simple guide
- Buy a Coke — or the Company
- Four Reasons to Invest Internationally
- Is Retirement Just Too Dang Risky?
- Ask the Readers: How Much Should I Save (and What Should I Save For)?
- What Really Makes Your Retirement Accounts Grow
- Learn More About Money from an Investment Group
- The Follies of Fortune Telling
- A Closer Look at Bonds
- Saving for Retirement with More Than Mutual Funds
- 8 little-known facts and benefits of Roth IRA savings
- Ask the Readers: How Do I Get Started with Investing?
- Compound Interest vs. Increased Income — Which Matters More?
- Winning the Lottery
- Estate Planning Essentials: Preparing for the Unpleasantly Possible
- Slowly get rich with dividends: Living on dividends alone?
- Your Retirement Account Survival Guide
- Rebalancing in Real Life
- Rebalancing Your Investment Portfolio
- All About Asset Location: How to Make the Most of Your Accounts
- The lottery: An “investment” for fools (with bonus lottery simulator!)
- The Tao of the Dow: All About Stock Market Indexes
- A Brief Intro to Peer-to-Peer Lending
- The Most Important Factor in Retirement Savings
- Coping with my inheritance
- Don’t Get Rich Any Slower Than You Have To
- Stupid Stock Market Tricks
- Index funds: The investment answer?
- Morningstar ratings: Useful or useless?
- Dinner with the Diehards: A Chat About Investing
- Life After Debt: What It's Like in the Third Stage of Personal Finance
- Investing in Stocks: It’s Not as Bad as You Think
- Choosing a Target-Date Fund
- The marginal utility of money
- The Best Way to Pay for Advice: The Advantages of a Fee-Only Financial Advisor
- MyFinancialAdvice.com Helps the Average Person Find a Financial Advisor
- Roth IRA Conversions Made Easy
- The Problem With Prognostication: Why You Shouldn't Invest Based on “Expert” Predictions
- How to get the best rates on your savings — safely
- Ask the Readers: Life After a Maxed-Out IRA?
- Getting Started with Asset Allocation
- Index Funds: Why Choose Anything Else?
- The Roth IRA Made Easy
- Pay yourself first: How you can overcome the challenge of saving
- Investing 101: How Diversification Reduces Risk
- Sound Saving and Investing: Taking the Road to Riches Step-by-Step
- Ask The Readers: What Is Your Appetite for Risk?
- How much is your 401(k) costing you?
- Investing as a Couple: Draw on Your Differences
- How Long You’ll Be Investing
- The Problem With Market Timing
- Ask the Readers: How to Handle a Windfall?
- Investment Risk and the Growth of Wealth: The Importance of Course Corrections
- Why I Love the Roth IRA
- The passive way to investment success
- No Crystal Ball Required: Getting Better Investment Returns (Without Guessing)
- Developing an Investment Policy Statement
- How to find the right CD or money market account
- How to Create Your Own Target-Date Mutual Fund
- How to Read a Mutual Fund Prospectus
- Investing 101: How bonds work
- The Basics of Bonds
- Investing for Your Future
- Investing 101: An introduction to asset allocation
- The Fundamental Rules of Investment Success
- The Index Fund Wins Again
- Investing 101: Average is NOT Normal
- Behavior Gap: The Psychology of Investing
- The young money stock market game
- Tax-Loss Harvesting: How to Use the Market Downturn to Save on Taxes This Year
- Investing 101: An Introduction to Index Funds and Passive Investing
- How to Invest in a Bad Economy
- Meeting the Diehards: Profiting from Shared Wisdom
- Investing in a Bear Market
- All I Really Need to Know About Stocks I Learned in the Sixth Grade (An Interview with David Gardner)
- How to Cope with a Lousy 401(k) Plan
- Simplify Your Investing: An Introduction to DRIPs
- Ask the Readers: How to Get Started with Investing?
- Report from Motley Fool HQ: How Do People Find and Use Financial Information?
- Picking Stocks with The Motley Fool's CAPS
- Why It Pays to Ignore Financial News
- Trading Stocks: How Do I Find Good Stocks?
- Saving and Investing: An Introduction to Stock Valuation
- What If You Didn't Start Saving Early? Advice for Late Bloomers
- Saving and investing: An introduction to diversification
- The Compound Return Marathon: Which Retirement Strategy Will Win?
- The extraordinary power of compound interest
- What's the Safest Thing I Can Do with My Money?
- The Number One Impact on Your Investments is YOU
- How Lower Fees and Expenses with Index Funds Could Mean 33% More to Spend in Retirement
- Ask the Readers: Is Now a Good Time to Buy Index Funds?
- What to consider when opening your first brokerage account
- The pros and cons of Sharebuilder
- Ask the Readers: What to Do When Money and Ethics Clash?
- Can You Have a Savings Account in a Roth IRA?
- The Upside of Risk: Why Market Volatility is a Good Thing
- 12 Investing Mistakes I've Made (and How You Can Learn From Them)
- What if the Stock Market Makes You Nervous?
- Community Investing and Other Socially-Conscious Banking Options
- Confessions of a Personal Finance Guru
- Questions and answers about Roth IRAs (Updated!)
- Which investments are best for Roth IRAs?
- How to open a Roth IRA
- What is a Roth IRA and Why Should You Care?
- Where Can I Invest My Money to Realize at Least a 10% Return?
- Saving and Investing: 5 Popular Misconceptions
- Saving and Investing: Getting Started
- Saving and Investing: Three Enemies of Growth
- When and How To Hire a Financial Planner
- Saving and Investing: The Impact of Time
- Saving and Investing: An Introduction to Dollar-Cost Averaging
- Saving and Investing: The Difference Between Active and Passive Management
- Saving and Investing: Types of Mutual Funds
- Saving and Investing: What is a Mutual Fund?
- Saving and Investing: The Importance of Diversification
- Saving and Investing: What is a Stock Market Index?
- Saving and Investing: What is a Stock?
- Saving and Investing: What is a Bond?
- Saving and Investing: Why do Financial Markets Exist?
- Saving and investing: An introduction to financial statements
- Saving and Investing: What is Leverage?
- Saving and Investing: The Difference Between Debt and Equity
- Saving and Investing: Providers and Users of Capital
- Saving and Investing: The Power of Compounding
- Saving and Investing: Introduction
- What the Stock Market Decline Means for You
- Prosper: Investing on YOUR Terms
- Ask the Readers: Where to Start With the Stock Market?
- Are Index Funds the Best Investment?
- The Beauty of Penny Stocks
- The Billionaire Next Door: The Wisdom of Warren Buffett
- Tax Tips for Tykes
- Intro to Mutual Funds: Index Funds
- No One Ever Went Broke Taking a Profit
- An Introduction to Mutual Funds
- Make Money Quick! In the Stock Market!
- Reader Question: Socially Responsible Investments?
Money Basics
Money Mindset
Money Tools
Planning
- The flywheel of wealth (and the importance of patience)
- How couples can create a shared plan for the future
- The forever fallacy
- How much should you spend in retirement?
- How to find your purpose in life: 12 powerful exercises to help you discover purpose and passion
- Foolish money mistakes — and how to avoid them
- How to write a personal mission statement
- Life expectancy: The most important variable in retirement planning
- What is financial independence? The basics of FI explained in plain English
- Should you give money to your adult children?
- Money story: Two broke millennials in pursuit of financial freedom
- Writing your financial autobiography
- How to check your Social Security benefits online
- Conducting a family goals conference
- Money story: Our financial 180
- The opportunity fund: How to be prepared for lucky breaks
- On the importance of putting first things first
- How to calculate your net worth (and what to do with it)
- How to set smart goals: What science says about getting what you want
- Visualizing your net worth — and how it compares to others
- Avoiding the fate of the dodo: How to prepare for an uncertain future
- Your lifetime wealth ratio (and how to calculate it)
- Planning For the Year Ahead
- How to Handle Financial Disappointments
- Inheritance disputes: Avoiding the war when there's a will
- What is an Apprenticeship?
- How to know when to change your financial plan
- Year-end tax planning – 2015 checklist
- Maneuver toward retirement: What to do in your 30s
- Money mistakes to avoid in your 40s
- How much does it cost to start a side gig?
- How Social Security can help you catch up on retirement savings
- Ready to declare financial independence?
- The best (and worst) money advice Dad ever gave you
- Unexpected funeral costs – 3 financial lessons that could protect your heirs
- Financial stress: Strategies for the sandwich generation
- How Much to Save for Retirement in My 30s? (And Other Burning Questions)
- How to achieve long-term financial goals
- Personal finance and the long game
- 10 tax breaks for 20-somethings
- 5 military tax deductions service members can claim but often don't
- How to prevent mobile phone theft
- Beyond Valentine's Day: Money and relationships
- Finding Retirement Security
- Free online background check — Could a specialty consumer report be costing you?
- Ask the Readers: What personal finance choices will you face in the coming year?
- 14 smart money moves to make before the end of the year
- What can we learn from Gen Y's view of money?
- The problem with being goal-oriented
- No, the American dream doesn't cost 130K
- Are you ready for a major power outage?
- Ask the readers: What do you do when someone constantly hits you up for money?
- When prepaid college plans work
- Money resolutions and goals for the New Year
- In praise of financial resilience
- When is your financial relaxation due date?
- Why, at 25, I made retirement my first priority
- Emotional and financial lessons from death
- ‘Gen Z' is financially-savvy, with one big exception
- Ask the Readers: Do you plan for the good times as well as the bad?
- Couples and money: Lessons from The Queen of Versailles
- The tyranny of the 401(k) industrial complex
- How (and why) to create a financial plan
- I'm 30! Am I where I should be with my finances?
- Creating objective rules for spending
- How to plan for a worst-case scenario
- Taking the semi-retirement plunge without drowning in debt
- This year, switch and get things done
- Why giving up $100,000 a year was the right choice
- I'm Retiring from Get Rich Slowly
- 15 things you need to know about financial aid
- Finding Hope In The Bleakest Of Situations
- Friendships and financial inequality
- Keeping Your Head During Estate Settlement
- What would you do if you were rich?
- Straying Off the Path or Changing Direction?
- Getting Rich Slowly vs. Taking Financial Risks
- Estate Settlement: Reading the Will Is Not What You Expect
- Wills, trusts and drama: What to expect when settling an estate
- The Retirement Outlook for 20-Somethings
- How to Do a Wallet Audit
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Merge Finances and Philosophies?
- How to donate your body to Science
- Make This Year Better by Asking the Right Question
- Planning for My Financial Future
- Recovering from Divorce
- Ask the readers: How to help a homeless friend?
- What my father's death taught me about estate planning
- Deciding What to Buy
- Seven Years of Fiscal Responsibility
- Play the Fooly-Wed Game!
- Ask the Readers: Which Financial Products Do You Actually Use?
- Turn Paranoia Into Plan B (Because Things Might Get Worse)
- How did my phone bill get so high?!? Why you should pay attention to your bills
- Ask the readers: How would you sell a collection?
- Want More Money in Retirement? Work a Little Longer!
- Lay-Off Resistant Family Finances
- Engineer Your Retirement
- Estate Planning – The First Month
- Drama in Real Life: A Place for Mom
- The Next Step: Preparing for Change
- Every purchase is a trade-off
- Making Life Transitions Meaningful
- How My Debt-Free Marriage Led to Freedom for New Opportunities
- How to Make Separate Finances Work: An Interview with J.D. and Kris
- Estate Planning Done Right: How to Help Your Family from the Great Beyond
- To Automate, or Not to Automate
- Building Your Financial “Safety Gear”
- A Five-Year Financial Turnaround
- Use a Financial Fire Drill to Prepare for the Worst BEFORE It Happens
- Financial Security for Unmarried Couples
- Establish Your Financial Priorities (Worksheet Inside!)
- Earning, spending, and saving: The building blocks of personal finance
- Tax-preparation fees: How much does it cost to have your taxes done?
- The power of patience
- Getting Started with Estate Planning
- Sailing Away from the American Dream
- Redbox vs. iTunes vs. Netflix vs. Blockbuster
- Conscious spending in action
- Caring for aging parents
- Two Stories About Retirement Planning
- Drama in Real Life: When Emergencies Pile Up
- One Problem, One Correction: How to Set New Year's Resolutions You'll Actually Keep
- The Cost of Being a Better Parent
- Three posters about personal finance
- Fantasy vs. Reality: Paving a Path to a Promising Future
- Since My Divorce
- Allowance: For learning or reward?
- Why Now is the Time to Think Long-Term
- Re-Thinking Retirement: Beyond Conventional Wisdom
- Ask the readers: Financial advice for an 18-year-old?
- When Will You Be Able to Retire?
- The High Cost of Modern Living
- What is Retirement?
- Widowed Young
- How to find unclaimed money (and unclaimed property)
- How do you define financial freedom?
- Preparing for the Future: A Risk-Management Checklist
- What happens to your stuff when you die?
- What YOU Can Learn from Baby-Boomer Blunders
- Six Steps to Strengthen Your Family on the Journey to Financial Freedom
- The Business of Marriage: Five Things You Should Do Before Tying the Knot
- Are We There Yet? How Will You Know When You're Rich?
- Calculating Your Life-Time Income
- How to Self-Diagnose Your Financial Health
- From Whole Foods to Food Stamps
- How to Be Happy in Retirement
- Great lessons from great men
- Learning to use money as a tool
- Planning a (Debt-Free) Dream Vacation
- Women and Retirement
- The Regrets of Christmas Past
- Are Pre-Nuptial Agreements For Everyone?
- Ask the Readers: Why Are YOU Saving for Retirement?
- No One Cares More About Your Retirement Than YOU Do
- Minimalist money: 6 steps to simplify your financial life
- Goals Are the Gateway to Financial Success
- The Best Ways to Boost Your Retirement
- What Got You to Get Better? Reasons for Change
- The Big Book of Everything: A free life-affairs organizer
- What If You Don't Plan to Retire? Save Anyhow!
- My Sister’s Keeper: Sharing Financial Goals with an Accountability Partner
- Estate Planning 101: Preparing for the Possible — and the Inevitable
- Ask the Readers: Tips for Tackling Big Financial Goals?
- Be More Involved in Your Financial Planning
- The Boat Experience: The Means Justify the Ends
- When does it make sense to stock up?
- The Miser's Peril: Why You Should Save for Tomorrow AND Enjoy Today
- 8 Questions to Ask BEFORE Hiring a Financial Planner
- The Ways and Means of Coping with Emergencies
- Ask the Readers: Where's the Fun in Personal Finance?
- How to Find Great Deals on Vacation and Travel
- Financial Independence: The Final Stage of Money Management
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Organize Your Account Information?
- George Kinder: Three questions about life planning
- “What Next?” The Third Stage of Personal Finance
- Playing with Numbers: Using Spreadsheets to Learn About Money
- What's your why? The importance of finding meaning in your life
- Ask the Readers: How Can I Know Whom to Trust?
- Creating a Will: It's Not as Scary as You Might Think
- The Saver's Tax Credit for Retirement Savings Contributions
- Setting and Achieving Family Financial Goals
- Ask the readers: How much cash do you stash?
- How to Save Money on Your Wedding: ASK!
- 7 Tips for Money and Marriage
- Ask the Readers: How Should We Spend Our Inheritance?
- Use Written Goals to Pursue Your Dreams
- Ask the Readers: How Can I Get My Wife to Talk About Money?
- Getting disciplined about money
- The Non-Conformists' Guide to Making Money
- Thoughts on Retirement and Financial Independence
- Early Retirement Requires Financial and Lifestyle Planning
- Excited and Scared: One Week as a Full-Time Blogger
- Friends and Money: Coping with Social Spending Situations
- Calculate Your Economic Stimulus Tax Rebate
- Ask the Readers: Quality Early Retirement Resources?
- The power of positive cash flow
- Ask the Readers: I'm Not Good With Money — How Should I Handle a Windfall?
- It's a Wonderful Life and the Value of Social Capital
- Paycheck and Withholding Calculators for Year-End Money Moves
- Money hack: Prepay your monthly bills
- Beating the High Cost of Weddings: How We Did It, and How You Can Too
- Yardwork and Financial Setbacks: A Metaphor
- Ask the Readers: How Do I Find a Good Lawyer (or Accountant)?
- A Brief Overview of Estate Planning Software
- Early Retirement: Couples Who Made It Happen
- Shaking the New Car Itch: A Tale of Priorities
- Ask the Readers: Am I Saving Too Much?
- An Introduction to the Crossover Point
- Ask the Readers: Personal Finance During a Health Crisis?
- The New Graduate's Guide to Financial Freedom
- Which Should You Choose: Joint or Separate Finances?
- What is a Financial Plan and Why Have One?
- How to retire rich Dave Ramsey style
- Ask the Readers: What if You Have No Credit History?
- Jump-Start Your Life With a Financial Plan
- Nintendo Wii: A Study in Planned Saving
- Two Approaches to Car-Buying
- A Brief Guide to Creating a Will
- Make a Wish List of Financial Goals
- Tips for Financial Independence
- Toward Financial Independence
- How compound returns favor the young
- Making Early Retirement Happen
Productivity
- The power of focus: Why you should tackle one goal at a time
- Small leaks sink great ships: How little habits can have large consequences
- Just solve the problem!
- Developing Self-Reliance — Personal empowerment lessons from 1951
- The power of personal transformation: Change your self, change the world
- Time Sinks and Passion: More Thoughts on Time Management
- A Magician of Time
- Struggling with Time-Debt
- Resisting the Time Suck
- Back Up Your Computer to Save Time and Money
- Finding Time to Pursue Your Dreams: Free Up 750 Hours a Year with One Simple Change
- An Introduction to Time-Banking
Psychology
- How I'm fighting chronic depression and anxiety
- Six simple money habits that changed my life
- More money, less happiness: When money makes you miserable
- Identity economics: Who are you? And how does it affect your spending?
- Beyond wealth: What happens AFTER you achieve financial independence?
- The psychology of passive barriers
- Why financial literacy fails (and what to do about it)
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- My life philosophy: 50 lessons from 50 years
- Discipline equals freedom: The difference between deprivation and depriving yourself
- Getting started with gratitude — a 30-day challenge for the new year
- Potential needs versus actual needs: Re-writing my financial blueprint
- What the marshmallow test can teach us about money
- Moving from emotional to analytical (with finance and fitness)
- There are no shortcuts
- The death of Anthony Bourdain: Thoughts on productivity, pleasure, and depression
- What's your why? My talk from Camp FI in April
- The perfect is the enemy of the good
- How to build confidence and destroy fear
- The stages of financial freedom: The road to financial independence
- Mastering the abundance mindset (and changing your money blueprint)
- Loss hurts: Loss aversion and how to beat it
- Developing financial resilience
- How to use barriers and pre-commitment to do the right things with your money
- The stories we tell ourselves
- You are the boss of you: Why you should run your life like a business
- Everyone hates a winner: How to cope with haters
- Building financial empathy
- Fighting lifestyle inflation: Hopping off the hedonic treadmill
- Becoming proactive: The number-one secret to wealth, freedom, and happiness
- Start where you are
- Ask the readers: Can you use positive reinforcement to train smart money habits?
- Your money blueprint — and how it shapes your world
- Purpose and the value of money
- Mastering your money: 12 steps to financial freedom
- How to navigate relationships as your finances change
- Why we spend: Are you falling for these costly biases?
- The power of focusing on what you can control
- Ask the Readers: Is financial ability intrinsic or learned?
- What's wrong with consumerism and materialism? Lots
- Preventing failure before it is an option
- Change is hard: Willpower versus habit
- Weird ways our brains control our money habits
- Motivation and money
- Ask the Readers: How do you dream?
- Talking with Tess Vigeland about the psychology of money
- Gratitude is good for your soul … and your finances
- What type of procrastinator are you?
- 6 ways to doubt yourself and do it anyway
- Ask the readers: What's your embarrassing money moment?
- Do we have a duty to live up to our potential?
- Can we really change our financial habits if our backs aren't against the wall?
- Material stuff can make you happy
- Big wins: The quickest way to wealth
- 8 hacks to help you keep your resolutions
- Unintended Consequences of a Move
- The psychology of a debtor and the climb out of darkness
- Are English-speakers less likely to save money?
- You Are the Boss of You: How to Find Success with Life and Money
- Ask the Readers: How much do you dare to bare?
- Is there morality in personal finance?
- Talk about money: The key to financial literacy?
- Financial literacy: What's my motivation?
- Lessons from a widow: The real value of money
- Relationship deal breakers, then and now
- My New Year's resolution: lowering the bar for happiness
- The morality of personal finance
- Ask the readers: Do you lend money to friends?
- Financial enlightenment does not come from charts
- The rise and fall of the shopaholic
- When Seizing the Day Backfires
- Tips for the Introverted Negotiator
- What IS financial responsibility?
- The Power of Personal Responsibility
- The Politeness Tax
- Fighting Financial Pressure from Friends
- What is Wealth?
- Finding Balance in an Imbalanced World
- The Power of Community
- How Saving Money Cost Me Money
- How to handle people who undermine your success
- The Statute of Limitations on Regret
- Ask the Readers: Why Don't People Talk About Money?
- How to Change Your Spending Habits
- Your Friends are Marketing to You (How to Like Them Anyway)
- Trading Time for Money
- From the Trenches: An Update on My War on Stuff
- A philosophy of failure
- Getting Emotional About Money
- The Fear of Missing Out
- Class Consciousness and Social Mobility
- Can money buy freedom?
- Why I Lied About Money
- Don't Forget Regret – Use It Instead
- How to Fend Off Financial Trolls
- How I Lost 25 Pounds – And How It Can Help Your Finances
- How “Anchoring” Sways Your Decisions
- Ask the Readers: Staying Motivated to Save?
- Empower Your Willpower
- Finding Your Flow: Spend Less and Do More
- Got the Urge to Splurge? Use These Strategies to Fight It (or Not)
- Ask the Readers: How to Cope with Financial Mistakes?
- Social Capital and the Neighborhood Exchange
- Decision Fatigue: Why Willpower Isn't Always Enough
- Dissatisfied customer? Make an effective complaint
- Playing to win: Turning money management into a game
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Defining Your Financial Future
- The psychology of consumerism
- Tackling Temptation: Is It Better to Resist or to Give In?
- How to Spend Your Way to Happiness
- National Financial Literacy Month: The financial literacy toolkit
- Affirm your way to wealth
- 10 Money Lessons from Music Lyrics
- Wants, Needs, and the Sense of Entitlement
- All Value is Perceived Value
- Underachievement and the all-or-nothing mindset
- A Fresh Start on the Path to Prosperity
- What to Do When Personal Finance Becomes a Chore
- Gaming The System: Score Points With Your Savings
- Money ‘magic' to curb spending
- What to do when you're completely unsure
- Why Are There No Ads Urging Us to Save?
- Even Better Than Enough
- Welcome to Generation App
- Bargain Shopping Gone Berserk!
- How to use a commitment contract to change your habits
- How much is enough? On average, about $75,000 per year
- Action not words: The difference between talkers and doers
- Money CAN Buy You Happiness!
- Productivity Lagging? Take a Siesta
- Use an Informational Interview to Overcome Mental Barriers
- Patience and Personal Finance
- Three Passive Barriers I Use to Counter Consumerism
- The Importance of Finishing What You Started
- Money and Relationships: A Matter of Control?
- Money Myths and the Importance of Thinking for Yourself
- Spend Based on Who You Are, Not Who You Want to Be
- Be Happy on Your Own Terms
- Warren Buffett on the lottery of birth
- A Two-Step Approach to Breaking Bad Money Habits
- How I Learned to Save LESS — and Loved It
- The Balance Between Splurger and Miser
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Figure the Calculus of Kids?
- The Hidden Cost of Spending While In Debt
- How I Fought Lifestyle Inflation — and Won!
- Love and Money: Do Savers Seek Spenders?
- Break out of your comfort zone to achieve success
- Notes on Self-Study from a Killjoy Perfectionist
- It's more important to be happy than to be rich
- Failure is Okay
- My Advertising Crash Diet
- Slow and steady wins the race
- Do what works for you
- The Curse of a Big-Win Mentality
- Knocking Out the Beliefs That Hold You Back
- Accumulation and Attachment: Finding Balance
- The guilt of wealth
- Money is more about mind than it is about Math
- Lighting a Fire: How to Overcome Procrastination
- Discovering (and Challenging) Your Financial Values
- Peer pressure and money: Do you spend differently with friends?
- Freedom from Mindless Spending
- Do Experiences Lead to Greater Happiness Than Material Purchases?
- Lower your expectations, increase your happiness
- How money-transfer scams work
- Financial Serenity — The Missing Ingredient
- The Turning Point
- Finding Balance Between Time and Money
- Lighting the Way
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel
- Implementing the Debt Snowball: A Personal Journey
- The Ongoing Battle with Lifestyle Inflation
- Fumbling in the Dark
- How to Make Your Own Luck
- Use Personal Marketing to Persuade Yourself to Save
- How to Replace Bad Financial Habits With Good Ones
- Ask the Readers: How Much Money Would it Take For You to Compromise Your Principles?
- You Are Not Your Money
- When Less is More: The Importance of Perceived Value
- You Can't Always Get What You Want: The Dark Side of Personal Finance
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Talk to Your Loved Ones About Money?
- The Irritation Threshold and Lifestyle Inflation
- 10 Unconventional Money-Saving Tips
- What does it mean to be rich?
- The Never-Ending War Against Advertising
- Why I Don't Track My Net Worth
- Warren Buffett's ten secrets to wealth and life
- The sunk-cost fallacy: Throwing good money after bad
- The Idea of Having
- Financial Success Comes from Within
- How to win the lottery
- Cleaning House: When Little Messes Become Big Problems
- Dangerous Norms: When a Treat Becomes a Routine Matter
- Is it more important to be rich or to be happy?
- Closing the Gap Between Dreams and Reality
- Richer Than Rockefeller: Putting Wealth in Perspective
- Personal Currencies: New Ways to Look at Money
- Making the Move from Spender to Saver
- Seven Traits of Successful People
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Keep from Losing Control?
- Don't Panic! Coping with Financial Mistakes and Setbacks
- The Magic of Thinking Small
- Why We Shop: Getting a Grip on Consumerism
- How to handle a door-to-door salesman
- What Motivates You to Pursue Smart Personal Finance?
- Proven methods for servers to increase their tips
- Tech Lust: How to Cope with Gadget Envy
- How Good Habits Keep Small Mistakes Manageable
- Money and security: Fear of the future
- The Pastoral Lifestyle: A Life Removed from Day-to-Day Concerns
- The Hidden Costs of Stuff
- Understanding the Seven Habits of Wealth
- What is financial security?
- On the Relationship Between Temperament and Financial Behavior
- Three Questions About Money and Ethics
- Getting to Now: How to Beat the Procrastination Habit
- The Top 3 Mental Blocks to Personal Finance (and How to Get Past Them)
- The Tyranny of Stuff
- Why religion is an important part of personal finance
- The power of yes: A simple way to get more out of life
- If Personal Finance Is Easy, Why Isn't Everybody Rich?
- The Problem with the Bank of Mom and Dad
- The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good (Walking example)
- Ask the Readers: When Does This All Pay Off?
- Beware the Insidious Power of Marketing
- Procrastination Can Cost You Money!
- Facing and Fighting Financial Trolls
- Control impulse spending with the 30-day rule
- Beggars on the Streets of San Francisco
- Lessons About Money from the World of Warcraft
- How to Haggle
Relationships
- How adopting two girls changed my money mindset
- A self-made man
- Five lessons I learned while making a documentary film about FIRE
- The case for separate (but combined) finances
- Your financial family tree: What our parents teach us about money
- Time is more valuable than money
- Money story: Small acts of kindness create social capital
- The right way (and the wrong way) to lend money to family and friends
- How to have fair fights about money
- How couples can manage money together
- How to talk with your spouse about money
- How to stop fighting with your spouse about money
Retirement
- Early Retirement Extreme: The ten-year update
- The £200 Millionaire: An early retirement story from 1932
- The spend safely in retirement strategy
- Playing with fire: Words of wisdom from Vicki Robin
- Saving regret — and how to avoid it
- Am I financially independent? (And does it matter?)
- How we used geographic arbitrage to pursue our dreams (and enrich our lives)
- How to retire early: Early retirement by the numbers
- Passive income vs. passion income
- The four-percent rule for safe withdrawals during retirement: Theory versus reality
- Helping Mom apply for Social Security — More complicated than it needs to be?
- Free retirement planning guide from Vanguard
- Fifteen years of semi-retirement: A real-life look at what it's like to live more and work less
- Traditional advice is wrong: Here's how much you actually need to save for retirement
- Money story: I achieved financial independence in the U.S. Navy
- The five types of retirement
- Defining retirement: What does it mean to be retired?
- My mom is a millionaire!
- Best Cities to Retire 2018
- J.D. on the NewRetirement podcast: Financial independence, purpose, and happiness
- The evolution of retirement
- Jean Chatzky's retirement savings factor
- How to Forecast Your Retirement Savings
- The Essential Guide to Retirement
- What is a 702 Retirement Account?
- How many jobs is too many jobs?
- Father Knows Finances
- Performance reviews and asking for a raise
- How to Live Comfortably in Retirement
- Retire at 40: A 24-year-old in pursuit of financial freedom
- Ask the Readers: Have you ever opened a retirement account to reduce your taxes?
- Retirement travel and frugal living
- 5 key retirement factors your financial plan may not address
- Approaching retirement: What now?
- How I am financing retirement
- Update on a dad in need of retirement help
- Coming to terms: retirement vs. financial independence
- Success Stories (and the People Who Hate Them)
- How to Retire Abroad on $500 a Month
- 5 ways to cut costs to save more for retirement
- Ask the Readers: How can I help my father get financially set?
- All you need to know about saving for retirement
- Ask the Readers: Can you retire without a pension or 401(k)?
- My Roth IRA Sprint
- The Many Roads to Retirement
- When a Woman’s Work Is Done
- Why You’ll Likely Need Less in Retirement
- 11 Things You May Not Know About Retirement Accounts
- How to Buy a Pension with a Lifetime Annuity
- What Will You Get from Social Security?
- Extreme Early Retirement in Practice: How Two People Did It
- Ask the Readers: I'm Getting Older — Should I Save or Should I Travel?
- Making the Move to Semi-Retirement
- Ask the Readers: Am I Being Foolish for Saving So Much?
- Outsourcing Life: Unconventional Advice for When You're Financially Secure
- How much money should you save?
- Indian Beggar Saves 200 Pounds of Coins, Opens Bank Account
- Which is better: a Roth IRA or a traditional IRA?
Saving & Investing
Shopping
- How to make better (and quicker) decisions
- Mindful shopping: Learning to be deliberate about the things we buy and own
- The pink tax: The hidden cost of being female
- Christmas on a budget: How to save money on Christmas gifts (and still have fun)
- Are you a shopaholic? How to fight a shopping addiction
- Shaquille O'Neal once spent $1,000,000 in a single day
- How much do you spend on fireworks?
- What can I do with the gift cards I don't want?
- Ask the readers: How many wedding gifts should you buy?
- The Perils and Pangs of a Pricey Purchase
- The 3-say cooling-off period: Myth and reality
- Sometimes it's okay to splurge: 10 splurges that won't break the bank
Side Hustles
- How to make money fast: Quick ways to earn money in 2019
- The pros and cons of becoming a rideshare driver
- Money story: One man's trash is another man's treasure
- Super Business Girl
- Teen Boss: A magazine for young entrepreneurs
- Side hustles: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- 7 Ways to Skip the Day Job
- Guide to Using Micro-Jobs to Boost Savings
- Lessons From Your Summer Job: “Date the ice cream guy”
- Layoff: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
- Tailor your circumstances to your strategy
- What is the most difficult part of running your own business?
- What is the last day to ship before Christmas?
- Giving kids money to manage
- For fraudsters, no target too small
- How I sold my comic books (and why)
- Ask the Readers: What can you do this month to earn an extra $150?
- How I Launched a Successful Kickstarter Campaign
- How I Won $10,200 on Game Shows
- Advice for Entrepreneurs
- Starting a Successful Business as a Single Person
- How to make money at the farmers market
- How and why I sold Get Rich Slowly
- Turning a Side Hustle into Self Employment
- 5 Unusual Ways to Raise Successful Children
- Finding Financial Balance
- Giving Thanks for Small Businesses
- Think Different: Teaching Kids to Be Entrepreneurs
- Using Small Income Streams to Fund Big Goals
- Hostels For Adults: Spend Travel Money Where it Counts
- An introduction to Arbitrage: Using Craigslist to make a living
- Calling the Shots: How to Be the CEO of Your Own Life
- Blogging: A Demanding Task with Few Rewards?
- Earning Extra Income: Tips for Positive Cash Flow
- Comic Book Ad from 1956: How I Made a Small Fortune in Spare Time!
- Capitalist Kids: Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs
- Should I sell my car on eBay Motors?
- The $20 Challenge
- Want to Make Something by Hand? Sew Start, Already!
- How to Turn Your Clutter Into Cash
- The high cost of clutter
- The Benefits of Starting a Side Business
- Turning garage sale junk into eBay gold
- Office Space: Why I Rented a Place to Write
- How to Decide If You Should Become an Entrepreneur
- Practice, Passion, and Patience: The Secrets to Successful Blogs
- Quiz: Are You the Entrepreneurial “Type”?
- The Best $20 You'll Ever Spend
- Making and Doing: The Value of Productive Hobbies
- Success as an Entrepreneur: Why It’s Not About You
- Entrepreneurship Advice from Marc Hedlund, CEO of Wesabe
- 5 Tips for Starting a Small Business
- Young Entrepreneurs: Encouraging Children With Kid-Sized Businesses
- In Praise of the Lifestyle Business
- An Interview with Rich Rogers, Cheesemonger
- Going into Business? Keep your Personal Finances Safe
- The pros and cons of gift cards
- How I Became a Millionaire While Working in My Pajamas
- How to list an eBay auction for maximum profit
- How to Use the Amazon Marketplace for Fun and Profit
- The ultimate guide to making money from your yard sale
- Money-Making Hobbies: Mystery Shopping and Belly Dancing
- Money-Making Hobbies: Binding Books and Printing Buttons
- An Introduction to Making Money Selling Digital Photos
- Money Blueprints: What Our Parents Taught Us About Money
- Six Tips for Money-Making Hobbies
- Money Interviews: Imagination Movers
- I Was a Grade-School Entrepreneur
- Flipping cars for Fun and Profit
- An Entrepreneurial Leap of Faith
- The Entrepreneurial Spirit, a Tribute to My Father
- In Praise of Young Entrepreneurs
- Use Your Hobbies to Bring You Wealth
Sites
- Fiology: The online encyclopedia of financial independence
- Suze Orman hates the FIRE movement. She hates it, she hates it, she hates it.
- The thin green line: Why you should be skeptical of financial blogs
- J.D. on the Mo' Money Podcast
- A primer on finding unclaimed property
- Best non-U.S. personal finance sites?
Spending Wisely
Taxes
- The best (and worst) states for saving money and getting ahead 2018
- The Savers Tax Credit Explained
- IRS Tax Changes for 2016
- Things you never knew were taxable
- How I paid less in property taxes
- I was audited by the IRS! (and the red flags to avoid an IRS audit)
- Homeowners: Could this save you thousands in just a few hours?
- Ask the Readers: 5 questions about your taxes
- Year-End Tax Tips
- Taxes: Don't rush it
- Prepare for the Tax Preparer to Save Money
- I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)
- Tax Tips for the Freelancer
- The Truth About Tax Deductions
- How to cheat on your taxes legally
- Use FreeFile to File Your Tax Return for Free
- How to check your federal IRS tax refund status
- New from the IRS! Use Your Tax Refund to Buy Savings Bonds
- Where Your Money Goes: An Interactive Tax Calculator
- How marginal tax rates work
- What Tax Season Taught Me About Personal Finance
- Free File: A Fast, Easy Way to File Your Federal Income Taxes
- Mr. Lawyer and Mr. Accountant Chat About Taxes
- A Brief Overview of the Alternative Minimum Tax
- Last Minute Tax Tips
- Free Online Tax Preparation and E-Filing From the IRS
- A Contrarian View: Why I Love a Huge Tax Refund
- Original Income Tax Form from 1913
- Taxpayer Panic: What To Do If You Can’t Pay Uncle Sam
- Which financial records to keep (and how long to keep them)
Transportation
- Don't buy a new car without this cheat sheet!
- My plan for purchasing a new car
- The end of the road: Preparing to buy a new car
- Which new car would you buy?
- How much does your commute cost?
- Ask the readers: How do you know when your car is dead?
- A comprehensive guide to certified pre-owned vehicle programs
- Luxury is a state of mind: An awesome home-made car commercial
- How to buy the right car for your wallet
- How to save big with a salvage title
- Don't let your emotions drive your car-buying decisions
- Deals on wheels: Should you buy your child a car?
- 5 car maintenance services you can get for free
- Why I plan on driving my car into the ground
- Ask the readers: Do you repair your own car to save money?
- The Best Way to Buy a New Car
- Consumer Reports Auto Issue: Best and Worst Cars
- How to buy a car at auction
- Ask the Readers: Is a Used Car Still a Good Deal?
- Biking vs. driving calculator
- How to dispute your mechanic bill
- Save on Gas with Auto Maintenance
- Ask the readers: Should I sell my car?
- How We Bought a New Car
- How much should you spend on a car?
- When to replace your car
- Common car-dealer tricks
- Cost to Drive: Simple Web Tools for Budgeting Road Trips
- Thoughts on a scooter-based lifestyle
- The inner workings of a car dealership (and how to use them to your advantage)
- Are High Gas Prices Changing the Way We Drive?
- Use Fuelly to Track Your Fuel Economy
- Ask the readers: Buy a car or pay off debt?
- Motor Trend 1971 — 40 cars under $2500
- What's Not to Love About a New Car?
- Edmunds True Cost-to-Own calculator
- How to improve your fuel economy: 23 top tips for better gas mileage
- Reader Submission: Fritz Buys a New Car
- How to Sell a Used Car
- The true cost of car ownership
Travel
- Experimenting with ultra-light packing: How I packed light for 20 days on the road
- Summer vacation!
- How much I spent during two weeks of travel
- Big pleasure from small things
- A postcard from Europe: A mid-journey update on my travels
- A short conversation with Jillian from Montana Money Adventures
- Exploring the U.S. by RV: The price of adventure
- Using the Priority Pass for airport perks
- Travel Deal Tuesday is the best day of the year to shop for flights
- 10 amazing waterfront rentals for under $1,000 per week
- Should you travel in your 20s?
- Best way to redeem travel points: Why hoarding points is a bad investment
- The cure for vacation deprivation: A vacation budget
- Money speaks the same language, but with different accents
- Want to get rich quickly? Start looking for hidden treasure
- Money highlights while traveling
- What I Did On My Summer Vacation
- Budgeting for Travel
- Why I Love Budget Travel
- A Month of Travel for Less than a Month at Home
- Working Overseas
- Saving and Spending in South America
- Get the Most Mileage from Frequent Flier Rewards
- How to learn a foreign language without spending a cent
- Is Unlimited Air Travel a Good Deal?
- Pack Smart to Save Money
- Free Round-Trip Tickets with British Airways Card (or, J.D. Discovers Travel Hacking)
- Why I Spent $5000 to See the Space Shuttle
- From the Rich to the Poor (or, What I Learned in Africa)
- Cheap Travel: How To Get The Most For Your Travel Dollars
- How moving to a developing nation improved our financial situation
- How to Avoid Sneaky Airline Fees
- Searching for the Cheapest Airfare: Is There a Silver Bullet?
- 5 Little-Known Websites That Will Save You Time and Money When Booking Airfare Online
- How to Earn Free Plane Tickets and Cash Back by Shopping Online
- Travel Hacking: Smart Ways to See the World
- My Great Disney World Adventure
- The razor's edge: Lessons in true wealth
- Grocery Shopping in New Delhi
- Personal Finance in Japan: An American View
- The Nonconformists’ Guide to Personal Finance
- Update from the Emerald Isle
- What Developing Nations Can Teach Us About Personal Finance
- More Cheap Travel: Where the Hell is Matt?
Uncategorized
- The Modern Wealth Index
- I'm 21 and pursuing the path to financial independence
- The secret to a rich life
- The optimization trap
- The cost of pet ownership: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Teaching kids about money: How to raise money-smart kids
- January 2018: By the Numbers
- Linchpin habits: Minimum effort for maximum results
- More on the value of negotiating
- Back to basics: Find success by focusing on fundamentals
- My 2017 year-end review
- Lessons from the kid who sold the most Girl Scout cookies in Brooklyn
- There are pros and cons to everywhere
- Earning millions of air miles by renting a new car every day
- Four life expectancy calculators
- How to stay rich when you win the lottery
- Buying a World War II-era Monopoly set
- How to make millions per year with toy store arbitrage
- Anthony Bourdain's money diary
- Ask the readers: Where do you get your money information?
- A Home Owner's Guide to Refinancing Your Mortgage
- 5 Ways to a Lower Mortgage Payment, According to a Realtor
- 11 Years On: Why I'm Still Glad We Bought Our Mexican Home
- How to Create Passive Income
- Refinancing Tips When Rates Start to Rise
- Taking a Broader View of Refinancing
- Saving for Your Newborn
- What is a Spousal IRA?
- Savings Strategies for High-Net Worth Individuals
- How to Build a Savings Nest Egg (Even While Broke)
- How Not to Overspend
- What to Do if you Inherit an IRA?
- 529 Plans vs. Prepaid 529 Plans
- 2016 Guide to IRA Contribution Limits, Deadlines and Deductions
- The Newlyweds' Guide to Money
- Why Gym Memberships Can be a Smart Investment
- Dear Diary: I live at home and I'm still broke — Part I
- Tandas: Informal Loan Clubs Where Trust Meets Need
- Lemonade's Life Lessons
- Savings Strategies: Little Moves That Equal Big Money
- Gap Year Programs: Where do you Stand?
- What's your best personal finance tip?
- What else can young people do to jumpstart their lives?
- What are Pay as you Earn (REPAYE) Student Loans?
- What is your just-getting-started story?
- What you need to succeed against the odds
- Act fast for double cash back rewards from Discover
- Balancing expectations for bonus-and-raise season
- The good side of quitting
- 10 innovative tools under $100 for Father's Day
- Dorm survival guide — what to splurge on, what to skip
- Ask the Readers: How are you leveraging personal relationships?
- Ask the Readers: How do you teach your children about net worth?
- Ask the Readers: What are you saving for?
- When is it okay to re-gift?
- What to buy on Black Friday
- How I use negative feelings about finances to my advantage
- How to be generous with money
- How to avoid borrowing from your future self
- Bird leaves nest: Equipping your graduate with wings
- Why I voluntarily slashed my salary
- What's the definition of success?
- Breaking taboo: Ask your friends and family for financial advice
- Ask the Readers: What is your personal finance calculus?
- What older children need to know about money
- Using “Decisive” for your decisions
- Breaking the stress spending cycle
- More on motivation and money
- The renegade’s complete guide to personal finance
- Ask the Readers: Do you stress-test your finances?
- Money challenges: Why I'm OK with them, and a few of my favorites
- Ask the Readers: What's on your personal finance syllabus?
- The cultural shift toward financial security
- Ask the Readers: What was your financial turning point?
- Breaking bad … habits
- Money lessons from the Grinch, Scrooge, and Buddy the Elf
- Ask the Readers: If I could turn back time…
- Thanksgiving is all about personal finance
- How to avoid binge-shopping
- Lifestyle inflation: Can it be done responsibly?
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Bargain
- How I'm changing my relationship with money
- Ask the Readers: Which Concepts Have Contributed Most to Your Financial Success?
- Confession: I Don't Track Every Penny
- Do you read the fine print?
- No discipline and can't save? No problem!
- Look, Mom! I’m on TV!
- Financial advice for my former self
- How my mom inspired me during a savings slump
- Friends and philosophies of personal finance
- Building a life we value
- Teenagers and money (aka Debunking the Mom-Is-an-ATM myth)
- Ask the Readers: What will you give up this month to save $250?
- How to File a Consumer Complaint
- Adventures in negotiating
- Breaking the boom-and-bust cycle
- Want to avoid Black Friday madness? Just fill out this application…
- We all have our Joneses
- Go online to raise money-savvy kids
- Why I hate consumer contracts
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Maximize Store Loyalty Cards?
- Financial Literacy: Is There Ever Enough?
- In Search of a Financial Theory of Everything
- Falling in Love with the Freedom Fund
- Rethinking Luxuries: How Luxurious Are They?
- Seize the Summer
- Signs of Financial Relationship Trouble?
- Showered With Needs
- My Son Manages My Finances
- Changing Focus from Stuff to Substance
- Financial Advice for a Five-Year-Old
- What Financial Freedom Really Means
- Ask the Readers: Items Worth the Extra Money?
- How to Buy Brand Name Items at Generic Brand Prices
- Ask the Readers: What Do You Wish You'd Learned About Money?
- Escaping Poverty
- Saving Without a Goal
- Just One Thing: A Simple Way to Make Changes to Your Life
- Why It’s Okay to Buy a Mega Millions Ticket (Even After You’ve Done the Math)
- Shopping for the Sake of Shopping
- My Financial Decisions as an Undergrad
- How Safe Is Your Cash?
- Building a Collection Without Breaking the Bank
- How to Have More Money
- Automating Savings on an Irregular Income
- Ask the Readers: Basic Financial Frameworks?
- The Calculus of Convenience
- Does Suze Orman's Prepaid Debit Card Make Sense for You?
- Four-Week Financial Boot Camp
- Kickstart New Habits with a 30-Day Challenge
- The Night That Mama Cried While Angels Sang
- Consumers Bear the Risk with Gift Cards
- Avoiding Competitive Shopping For Fun and Profit
- Finish What You Start
- Black Friday by the Numbers
- Spend on the Things You Do Every Day
- Ask the Readers: How Much Money Do You Need Before You Have Kids?
- Beating the Single-Shopper Penalty
- An Early Education in Financial Literacy
- Halloween Spending: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
- A Meeting of Minds: Financial Blogger Conference 2011
- The High Cost of Kids' Sports
- Saving Time and Money with Autopay
- Drugstore Price Comparison: Online vs. In-store
- How Much Do We Owe Others? (And When Should We Walk Away?)
- Crammed! A Shocking Utility Tale
- The Blurry Line Between Experiences and Stuff
- Putting First Things First
- My Financial Roadmap and Making Course Corrections
- Why I hate “new, unique” money tips
- What To Do with All That Clutter: Sell It, Swap It, Give It Away
- Paying Attention and Taking Action
- Setting Smart Financial Goals
- Fight for Your Finances
- Saving the American Way…and the Bulgarian Way
- 42 Goals in 42 Months
- How to Spend Your Money
- You Can Have It All (Just Not All At Once)
- Developing Systems That Work
- Gaming Without Breaking the Bank
- Mistakes and Milestones, and Lessons Learned Along the Way
- How to Avoid Common Money Mistakes
- The Cost of Love
- Money Lessons for Kids from Captain America
- Women and Money: Slaying Stereotypes and Facing Reality
- Does Your Spending Match Your Values?
- The Coming of the Shopocalypse
- Scholarships for Fun and Profit
- DIY Personal Finance: How to Take Control of Your Financial Life
- A Crash Course in Financial Freedom
- 5 Habits of Highly-Effective Credit Card Users
- Are Discounts Coming for Paying in Cash?
- How to Replace Six Vital Documents
- Stopping Shopping Momentum
- Who's Spying on (and Profiting from) Your Browsing Habits?
- Downshifting: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
- Learning to Spend
- The Personal-Finance Continuum
- The Rewards of Routine Maintenance
- Ask the Readers: From London to Los Angeles?
- Living The Examined Life: Personal Data Collection is a Powerful Tool for Change
- Busting the Myths: Why Coupons Are a Valuable Part of Your Financial Arsenal
- Learning to Read the Fine Print
- Grow Your Savings by Paying in Full
- Don't Wait for a Discount — Ask for One
- Ask the Readers: How to Talk About Money with Teenagers?
- Can You Afford to Go Green?
- If You're Going to Buy a Warranty, Shop Around
- The Get Rich Slowly Philosophy
- Finding a Financial Guru
- Do You Get What You Pay For?
- National Day of Unplugging
- Made by Hand: In Praise of Amateurs
- How Much Stuff Does One Man Need?
- What Marriage Has Taught Me About Money
- Online Tools for Mindful Consumerism
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Moved in with Mom
- Are Americans Ready to Ditch the Dollar Bill?
- Action Beats Inaction
- Ask the Readers: Do You Buy Christmas Gifts For Your Spouse?
- Nobody Cares More About Your Money Than You Do
- Suze Orman Jumps Aboard the “Pay With Cash” Bandwagon
- A Brief Guide to Holiday Tipping
- Financial Balance Lets You Enjoy Tomorrow AND Today
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Handle Peer Pressure?
- Master Your Money with a Financial Health Day
- Is There a Generation Gap in Saving?
- The Anti-Stuff Holiday Gift Guide
- Large Amounts Matter Too
- How Much Money Should I Save? Answering the Big Question
- On the Road to Financial Independence
- Personal Finance on Film: The Up Series
- How a Haircut Led to a Handy Acronym
- Ask the Readers: What Happens *After* You Use Your Emergency Savings?
- Impulse Spending: The Present and the Past
- Why Pursue Financial Freedom?
- The First Three Steps to Financial Freedom
- The Wisdom of My Father
- Where We're Starting From
- Credit Union Service Centers Provide Shared Branching
- Un-Broke: What You Need to Know About Money
- Mother Knows Best: 5 Ways to Teach Your Kids About Money
- Prepaid Cell Phones Can Save You Money
- What Fourth-Graders “Know” About Money
- My financial infrastructure
- Some Thoughts on the Return to Traditional Skills
- Safe Money in Tough Times: Questions and Answers with Jonathan Pond
- How I Cut My Television Bill in Half
- Ask the Readers: Two Questions About Saving
- Save on Cell Phones with Employee and Student Discounts
- Commitment Contracts and StickK.com
- The Personal Finance Gift Guide
- Three Reasons Cash is King
- Do the Tools of Personal Finance Actually Work?
- The Best Mortgage Rates of 2018
- Gift Cards and Bankruptcy: What To Do When Stores Go Broke
- The Millionaire Quiz
- The Last Word on Kids and Cash
- Simplify Your Life with a Stuff Replacement Fund
- Net Worth: The Most Important Number in Personal Finance?
- A Few Ways to Raise Cash Quickly
- Marvelous Magazine Ads from 1904
- 8 Tips for Saving Money on Hobbies and Pastimes
- Using an Allowance to Teach Kids About Money
- Leverage, Luck, and Living Well: A Conversation with Financial Columnist Scott Burns
- Why I Fought to Save Three Bucks (and Why You Should Too)
- The Key to Getting Things Done
- Ask the Readers: How to Cope with Socially Obligated Spending?
- Subscribe to Craigslist Search Results to Grab Great Deals
- Small Changes Are the Building Blocks of Financial Success
- Ask the Readers: How to Cope with Financial Disaster?
- Financial Advice from My Father (When I Was Nineteen)
- The 13 Commandments of Savvy Consumers
- Talking With Friends About Money
- Saving with Albert: Teaching a Four-Year-Old the Value of Money
- My Paperless Personal Finance System: A Work in Progress
- Best Personal Finance Podcasts
- Money and Values: The Ecology of Commerce
- How One Reader Uses Haggling to Save Big Bucks
- Negotiate Once, Save Thousands Every Year
- How to Turn $500 into $7 the Hard Way
- How to Inoculate Your Children Against Advertising
- The Key to Wealth is Being Satisfied with What You Already Have
- An Angel on One Shoulder and a Devil on the Other
- Money Talk at the Barber Shop
- Missing Money: Finding Unclaimed Property
- Asking for a Better Financial Future
- The Architecture of Personal Finance: Choosing the Right Materials
- Clark's Option Theory: Making the Most of Opportunity
- Letter to a Godchild: Passing on Financial Wisdom
- Turning the Tables on Telemarketers
- Basic Personal Finance: Know How Your Accounts Work
- Build Wealth with a “Virtual Employer”
- Mystery Checks in the Mail
- 10 Ways to Build the Habit of Saving Money
- Always Check Your Receipts
- In Pursuit of Paperless Personal Finance
- When a Saver and a Spender Say “I Do”
- Sammy the Rabbit Teaches Kids to Save
- Money Mistakes: That Old Black Magic
- How to Find Great Deals on eBay
- Money Day: Your Personal Finance Holiday
- Small-Town Personal Finance
- Good Customer Service Still Exists
- Clutter's Last Stand: The Cost of Buying Things You Will Not Use
- The Completely Consumed Increment, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Used Stuff
- 7 Essential Skills to Protect Yourself from Scammers
- Dumb Things I Sometimes Do
- When Did You Start Caring About Your Finances?
- 101 Things in 1001 Days
- The Road to Wealth is Paved with Goals
- How to Organize Your Finances in Four Easy Steps
- 24 Craigslist Tips, Tricks, and Resources
- The Cost of Customer Loyalty
- Ask the Readers: Advice for the Old and Wise?
- Manage Your Finances Like a Professional Gambler
- Ask to Save!
- Reduction Quest: How to Save at the Money Game
- Money and Values: Shopping Locally
- You're Never Too Young to Save
- How Do You Teach Kids the Value of Money?
- Why Bother With Personal Finance?
- 8 Ways to Make Bill-Paying Easier
- How to Find an Accountant
- Saving Money vs. Making Money
- Survey: What Does Money Mean to You?
- The Politics of Personal Finance
- Financial Urban Legends
- Lattes, iPods, and Masterworks: New Ways to Look at Money
- How to Get Better Customer Service
- Pep Talk: The Courage to Succeed
- A List of Excellent Personal-Development Sites
- The Most Important Money Tip
- Plan for Saving One Hundred Thousand Pounds
- Financial Advice from a Founding Father
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