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Money Basics
- Scambaiters: Meet the modern-day heroes who scam scammers
- A lesson in speaking up for yourself: I saved $575 for a moment of discomfort
- Start where you are
- “Saving rate” vs. “savings rate” — What's the difference?
- A brief guide to cybersecurity basics
- How to manage money for financial success in the U.S. military
- Which financial advice should you trust?
- Basic tips on tipping: How much and to whom?
Budgeting
- Why you should track your spending (and why Quicken sucks)
- How to budget: A pain-free guide to building a budget that works
- Money nerds and their spreadsheets
- 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!
- Your Thrift Habits — Budgeting tips from 1948
- Best budgeting apps of 2021
- Visualize your budget flows with a Sankey diagram
- Household Budgets for Beginners: Simple Tips for Success
- How to save money each month
- 7 surprising results when you pay your kids for chores
- How do you decide what to spend on a computer?
- Money moves for graduates: How to set up a budget
- How to start paying student loans – best practices guide
- What will you do when your debt is paid off?
- How much to save for maternity leave
- How to build wealth from scratch
- How to Save for a House
- Christmas gifts that keep on giving
- How does a strong dollar affect you?
- Can getting one month ahead save your budget?
- Should cash be part of your emergency fund?
- How I budget with a variable income
- Hiccups on the way to combining finances
- The daycare debate: A double-edged sword
- How do you know if a vet procedure is really necessary?
- A Guide to Managing Your Fear of Money
- Your landline: Think twice before cutting the cord
- How to track your spending (and why you should)
- Don't have savings? Quit making excuses
- On a time crunch? Squeeze more out of your day
- The power of a zero-sum budget
- Adventures in returning to the envelope system
- The truth about being broke
- Your budget isn't working. Here's why.
- Are automatic payments all they're cracked up to be?
- Costs and savings of having a stay-at-home parent
- Love, relationships and financial harmony
- How to save money while seeing the world
- How to Save and Invest Money
- Lowering expectations for Christmas
- Redefining Frugality: Mistakes and Money Lessons Learned as a Freelancer
- Household budgets: When one partner won't budget
- Saving for a big purchase
- Frugal or foolish? Our cruise-ship wedding
- Classifying wants and needs
- The costs and benefits of the family dog
- Detecting and preventing lifestyle creep
- The Many Ways to Know and Control the Flow of Your Dough
- Holiday Saving Tips: How to Grow Your Christmas Nest Egg
- Budgeting Dilemma: How Do You Decide What You Can Afford?
- Learning to Give
- Five ways to outwit the ATM
- Gaming without breaking the bank
- 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
- Finding My Spending Identity
- 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
- The Prioritized Spending Plan
- Investing in Your Life Pays Off in the Long Term
- Free Microsoft Money download now available
- Free money-management spreadsheet
- A Simple Question to Jump-Start Your Finances
- 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
- Drafting a plan for discretionary spending
- Don’t Let Irregular Expenses Wreck Your Budget (or Drain Your Emergency Fund)
- 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
- The high cost of cats and dogs: Are pets worth the money?
- The Ten-Minute Budget
- Personal finance 101: How to pay your utility bills
- In praise of the adult allowance
- The Balanced Money Formula
- Learning to Give: What *I* Can Do to Fight Poverty
- The budget toolbox: 13 tools for building a better budget
- How to Track Travel Expenses and Stick to a Vacation 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
- How I Escaped from Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck
- You Are Your Own Worst Enemy
- The Get Rich Slowly Budget Workbook (Version 2.0)
- How To Protect Yourself From Lifestyle Inflation
- You, Inc.: How to be the CFO of your own life
- Track every penny you spend
- Want to Save? Give up the Big Things!
- Handy personal finance spreadsheets
Debt
- Case study: Deep in debt but scared to take action
- How to refinance your student loans
- Building a wealth snowball
- How to get out of debt (without gimmicks or games)
- Creative Ways To Reduce Student-Loan Debt
- 21 Ways to Stretch Your Dollar While in College
- 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
- Why bankruptcy should be your last resort
- How to Get Out of Debt on a Low Income
- Living in a car to pay off debt
- Car payments: ‘Til death do us part
- Why paying with cash hurts (and why it should)
- 4 steps to finding financial improvement
- 10 financial lessons I learned from my parents’ divorce
- Student loan debt: How I got in deep
- Are universities immoral?
- Surviving Student Loans
- Calibrating and Circumventing the Cost of College
- How much do we owe others? (and when should we walk away?)
- What is my financial obligation to my family?
- How to lend money to friends (without ruining the relationship)
- When to walk away from a bad mortgage
- Emergency fund vs. debt snowball: What's the top priority?
- Should I sell my home to pay off my debt?
- Help! I co-signed on a loan and now I wish I hadn't!
- Casting stones: When is it okay to judge?
- Is your spouse hiding debt? Recovering from financial infidelity
- Calculate how much your debt costs you per month
- How to get your free credit report online: A step-by-step guide
- Pros and cons: 30-year mortgage vs. 15-year mortgage
- Should repaying debt be an obsession?
- Free debt snowball spreadsheet
- What are debt snowballs made of? Debt snowflakes!
- 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
- The Debt to Pleasure: What is the Cost of Fun?
- Real-life choices: Retirement savings vs. debt reduction
- In praise of the debt snowball
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
- When to buy cheap airline tickets
- Time is money: How frugality buys freedom — tomorrow AND today
- How we watch TV without cable (and how much it costs)
- Community supported agriculture and tour 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
- Talking turkey about Black Friday savings
- What discounts can I get with a student ID?
- 11 frugal ways to prepare for an emergency
- Keeping a Pet Healthy on a Budget
- Ideas for a cheap vacation
- How to deal with expensive friends
- Caring for your garden tools
- How to save money on family vacations
- How to use coupons effectively
- How to raise a frugal child
- Questions to ask before paying more for quality
- Cold and flu season: Stock your medicine cabinet for less
- Painless ways I save money in every category of my budget
- In defense of frugality
- Another visit with the real Millionaire Next Door
- Pick your hobbies strategically and save
- My grandmother's home remedies
- Saving money with my feet: The joys of a walkable neighborhood
- Do expiration dates make us wasteful?
- The power of speaking up
- Buy Nothing Year: Changing how we spend
- A wine guide for frugal folks
- Can you be friends with rich people?
- Travel on a budget: The all-inclusive vacation
- The 5 most popular coupon sites (and one with a mission)
- Defining a healthy dose of lifestyle inflation
- How to save money on vet bills
- Romanticizing poverty and learning financial independence
- Resisting the holiday spending trap
- 25 Ways to Give (Without Breaking the Bank)
- Which is cheaper: In the kitchen
- Can’t Afford to Socialize? Compromise!
- Professional sports: A waste of time, money, and energy?
- Be a Budget Traveler…in Your Own Town
- Five easy ways to save money
- 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
- Smart ways to save money
- How to get cheap drugs
- How to save on your cell phone plan with secret no-contract deals
- Frugal back-to-school shopping
- Frugal beauty: How to look good on a budget
- How to spend money (even if you think you shouldn't)
- 10 ways to build a gift closet that's both deep and cheap
- Celebrating Frugal Role Models
- When does minimalism go too far?
- Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without
- Becoming a Groupon Groupie
- Living below your means is like saving for retirement twice
- Getting Creative with Budget Travel
- 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
- How to lower your heating bills this winter
- Inexpensive Gift Ideas for Christmas (and Beyond!)
- Cheap Things You Never Use Are No Bargain
- Save money on shipping with free boxes from USPS
- How to Save Money While Traveling
- The rewards of frugality and thrift (or, why we scrimp and save)
- Busting the myths: Why coupons are a valuable part of your financial arsenal
- Save Money by Reducing Subscriptions and Avoiding Long-Term Contracts
- The best time to buy almost everything
- How I cut my Comcast cable bill by 33% (without losing any service)
- The Art of Improvising: Alternatives to Buying New
- The pitfalls of buying in bulk
- Small amounts matter
- Spend less than you earn
- Slash your grocery bill with store-brand products
- Sweating the Big Stuff
- How to shop at an estate sale
- Where to find free activities and events in your area
- How to Use Couchsurfing to See the World
- How to save money on food: Great tips from three years of Get Rich Slowly
- How to live a rich life — on a budget
- Prepaid cell phones can save you money
- The new age of thrift
- The secrets of financial freedom: An interview with the millionaire next door
- Saving money and the environment: Where green and frugal meet
- WhiteFence helps you find deals on utilities
- Why I drive a 13-year-old car
- Learning to live modestly
- How to afford anything (but not everything)
- Finding good wines at great prices: Expert advice for frugal wine lovers
- Things it's cheaper to do yourself
- Once-a-month shopping: Save more by shopping less
- 8 tips for saving money on hobbies and pastimes
- Why I Fought to Save Three Bucks (and Why You Should Too)
- Saving at the supermarket: 15 great grocery shopping tips
- 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
- A real millionaire next door
- Wedding registries: A love-hate relationship
- Frugality in practice: The DIY footrest
- What can I do if my girlfriend isn't serious about money?
- Frugality in Practice: Home-Based Physical Fitness
- My frugal valentine: Cheap ways to say “I love you”
- 21 money-saving sites from around the web
- Frugality in practice: Keeping warm in winter
- Frugality is NOT a dirty word
- Want to save the environment? Buy less stuff!
- Frugality in Practice: Do-it-Yourself Home Maintenance
- Thrifty Tips for Shopping Garage Sales from the Yardsale Queen
- How To Escape the Gift Trap
- What if you're frugal but your roommates aren't?
- Personal finance on film: The Farmer's Wife
- The cost-per-day expense chart
- Making the most of cheap cuts of beef
- The regift: Friend or foe?
- Cheap Ways to Stay Warm this Winter
- An introduction to homesteading
- 26 cheap camping tips
Earning Money
Career
- Designing your life
- How to change careers in 12 months (or less)
- 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
- 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)
- Land your dream job: How to find work that brings both joy and money
- Five steps to make more money while growing your career
- Performance reviews and asking for a raise
- 4 things to do before you ask for a raise
- How to optimize your resume for employment gaps
- Hourly vs. salary: Which is better?
- Job search tips that work
- 10 tips for when you can't find a job
- How to interview a prospective employer
- How to turn down a job offer (or resign) gracefully
- 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?
- 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
- How to negotiate when you hate negotiating
- Overwork and the illusion of a “high-paying” job
- Student loans: Lessons learned, choosing a major, and overcoming regrets
- Getting technical: an alternative to traditional college
- 4 signs you're over your job & 5 things you can do about it
- 9 traits of underearners
- Negotiating for perks when raises are off the table
- Throwing away an old rule
- Should you be a generalist or a specialist?
- 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
- How much is your time worth?
- Can't get a job? Get a microjob!
- Burgers or Blogging? Further Thoughts on Pursuing Your Passion
- 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
- Jump-start your career with a personal business model
- The importance of salary negotiation
- On the Value of Networking
- Career Insurance: Insuring Your Most Valuable Asset
- 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
- How do I survive until I get my first paycheck?
- I quit my job and joined the Peace Corps
- Is It Time To Quit Your Day Job?
- Taking care of business: Expense reimbursement
- 9 Sneaky Expenses That Eat Away at Your Income
- Invest in Your Most Important Income-Producing Asset
- Job Loss: Got a Financial Game Plan?
- 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
- Escape from Cubicle Nation
- The best recession-proof jobs
- 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 Earn More from Your Current Job (Without a Raise or Promotion)
- Quitting the day job: Finding the guts to pursue your dreams
- Breaking the Shackles: How to Escape from Minimum Wage
- Who Earns Minimum Wage? A Statistical Profile
- Requesting (and Receiving) the Raise You Deserve
- Career advice for the college graduate
- 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
Education
- The value of a college degree
- Seven things college freshmen don't need — and ten they do
- What I learned (and taught) at Fincon 2018
- Strategies for an affordable college education
- How to homeschool on one income
- Pros and cons of homeschooling
- My unconventional plans to pay for my daughter's college education
- The “Ivory Tower”: Reconsidering the college investment
- Why you must teach your children about money
- Why we aren't saving for our children's college educations
- 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
- Is an MBA worth it?
- College Is a Big, Fat, Hairy Rip-Off! (But Save for It Anyway)
- College Savings: The Basics of Saving for College
- The value of a college education
- 27 money tips for college students
- Why I love community college
Side Hustles
- 15 best paid survey sites in 2021
- Passive income ideas you can try today
- How to supplement retirement income with a part-time job
- How to make money fast: Quick ways to earn money in 2021
- The pros and cons of becoming a rideshare driver
- Passive income vs. passion income
- Side hustles: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Guide to using micro-jobs to boost savings
- Layoff: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
- Best side jobs for extra cash
- The secret to making extra money with eBay
- What is the last day to ship before Christmas?
- One year later: The benefits and tragedies of self-employment
- For fraudsters, no target too small
- How I sold my comic books (and why)
- How I Won $10,200 on Game Shows
- How to make money at the farmers market
- How and why I sold Get Rich Slowly
- Think different: Teaching kids to be entrepreneurs
- 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
- Make more money: How to supercharge your income
- Capitalist Kids: Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs
- Want to make something by hand? Sew start, already!
- The high cost of clutter
- The best $20 you'll ever spend
- Making and Doing: The Value of Productive Hobbies
- Entrepreneurship Advice from Marc Hedlund, CEO of Wesabe
- 5 Tips for Starting a Small Business
- Young Entrepreneurs: Encouraging Children With Kid-Sized Businesses
- The pros and cons of gift cards
- How I became a millionaire while working in my pajamas
- How to earn extra income through private tutoring
- How to list an eBay auction for maximum profit
- The ultimate guide to making money from your yard sale
- More money: 5 ways to earn extra cash in your spare time
- An Introduction to Making Money Selling Digital Photos
- Money Blueprints: What Our Parents Taught Us About Money
- Six tips for money-making hobbies
- 24 Craigslist tips, tricks, and resources
- Money interviews: Imagination Movers
- I Was a Grade-School Entrepreneur
- Flipping cars for fun and profit
- The Entrepreneurial Spirit, a Tribute to My Father
- In Praise of Young Entrepreneurs
- Use Your Hobbies to Bring You Wealth
Taxes
- Effective tax rates in the United States
- The best (and worst) states for saving money and getting ahead 2018
- What to do if you inherit an IRA?
- The savers tax credit explained
- 10 tax breaks for 20-somethings
- 5 military tax deductions service members can claim but often don't
- 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?
- Year-End Tax Tips
- Taxes: Don't rush it
- Prepare for the Tax Preparer to Save Money
- How to spend a tax refund
- 8 little-known facts and benefits of Roth IRA savings
- Tax-preparation fees: How much does it cost to have your taxes done?
- 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
- The truth about taxes
- How marginal tax rates work
- Why you shouldn't keep a mortgage just for the tax deduction
- Mr. Lawyer and Mr. Accountant Chat About Taxes
- A Brief Overview of the Alternative Minimum Tax
- A Contrarian View: Why I Love a Huge Tax Refund
- Original income tax form from 1913
- Which financial records to keep (and how long to keep them)
Spending Wisely
Clothing
- Quality versus crap: Why I bought $80 pajamas
- How to shop for high-quality clothes
- How to stop buying clothes you never wear
- Spring-clean your closet and make money
- Dress yourself for free: How to host a clothing swap
- The one-year wardrobe project
- How to save while shopping for children's clothes
- Embracing the thrift-store ethic: 18 top tips for buying used clothes
- Get More Bang for Your Buck by Using Coupons and Sales Wisely
- Frugality in practice: Shopping for second-hand clothes
- Trunk Clothes: A Sure Sign You Have a Spending Problem
Credit
- How to build credit the quick and easy way
- How to cancel a credit card (without killing your credit score)
- Reader question: Does repaying a loan hurt your credit score?
- 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)
- How to use credit cards wisely
- Do credit card rewards count as taxable income?
- One expense you have control of in ways you never thought
- What is phishing, vishing, and SMShing?
- Redeeming your credit card rewards — what do you do with them?
- Your credit score and credit card rewards: 10 tips
- Churning credit cards for a fun profit
- Everything You Need to Know about Using Credit Card Bonuses for Free Travel
- The dangers of store credit cards (and how I got suckered into opening a store credit card)
- 5 habits of highly-effective credit card users
- Beyond Credit Card Debt
- How I ruined my credit score, and how it didn't ruin my life
- Should you write ‘SEE ID' or sign your credit cards?
- 5 credit card company tricks — and how to thwart them
- 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 to choose a credit card
- Credit card basics: Five essential skills for mastering plastic
- Using a home equity loan to pay off credit cards
- How Those Evil Credit Cards Can Be Good for You
- Proper care and feeding of your credit score
- I do not use credit cards
- The Only Credit Card Guide You'll Ever Need
- The Secret History of the Credit Card
- How many credit cards should you carry?
Food
- Becoming a frugalvore: How to eat well for less
- My spending goal for 2020: Spend less on food
- Food waste and food consumption in the United States
- 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?
- 3 ways to beat McDonald's All-Day Breakfast menu on speed and price
- 35 tips for packing a lunch your kid will eat
- Meal plans and delivery programs — costly or cost-effective?
- How to build community relationships
- Advantages of online grocery shopping
- Will canning your food save you money?
- Dinner ideas — cooking “flexipe” style to save money
- Eating healthy on a slim budget
- How to meal plan and save some cash
- Save money by cutting food waste
- Food fight: Waging a war against food waste
- Once-a-month cooking made easy
- The Benihana Effect: Lifestyle Inflation in Action
- Want to save on groceries? Cook like a peasant
- How to stock your liquor cabinet on the cheap
- Buying Wine Online – Savings Tips for Frugal Sips
- Food fight: Does healthy food have to be more expensive?
- How much do you spend on food?
- The financial cost of obesity
- What to Do with Fresh Produce
- Best Sources for Summer Produce
- How to Grow Your First Garden
- Fight rising prices by building your own food bank pantry
- Beyond Tupperware: Frugal food storage
- Wine on a budget: How to get good deals on wine
- 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
- The art of the potluck
- Buying food: Grocery shopping tips from 1950
- Cut your food costs with a stand-alone freezer
- An Experiment in Cheap Living (from 1872)
- Gary Vaynerchuk: 12 Wines for Under $12
- How to Save $100 (or More) at the Grocery Store This Month
- Recession Romance: Make a Delicious Valentine's Day Dinner at Home
- Hidden price increases at the grocery store
- Unit pricing: Get more food for less money
- The Lazy Man's Guide to Groceries on a Budget
- How to Eat at a Swanky Restaurant Without Blowing Your Monthly Food Budget
- How to feed yourself for $15 a week
- Grocery store vs. Farmers Market: Which has the cheapest produce?
- 16 ways to eat healthy while keeping it cheap
- How to eat vegetarian on the cheap
- Gardening 101: Plan Today for Summer Success
- How to buy a side of beef
- 17 Ways to Save Big at the Supermarket
- Things Your Supermarket Won't Tell You
- Once-a-Month Cooking: Cooking for the Rushed
Health & Fitness
- Why gym memberships can be a smart investment
- What's the Cure for the High Cost of Prescriptions?
- Open Enrollment 2016 dates and how to shop for health insurance
- Medical identity theft: The identity theft no one is talking about
- When to use intermittent FMLA
- How to save money on dental bills
- Get a good workout without a gym membership
- How much are you willing to spend to save a sick pet?
- The shocking truth about medical bills that can save you thousands
- Turning Long-Term Goals Into Short-Term Goals (and Not Getting Fat Along the Way)
- Survival Techniques for the Barely Insured
- Hunting for health insurance
- 10 Tips to Save Money on Your Prescriptions
- Make the Choice Not to Decay
- Getting paid to lose weight with HealthyWage
- Earn quick cash by participating in medical research and marketing studies
- Finding Affordable Health Insurance When You're On Your Own
- An Expert Tip for Saving on Prescription Drugs
- How a wellness coach whipped me into shape
- The high cost of being fat
- How I finally defeated dandruff
- How to Walk for Fun and Profit
Home & Garden
- How rising mortgage rates affect home-buying power
- The leak in our bathroom ceiling
- Keeping a home improvement projects to-do list
- Grading homes: The system I used when picking a new place to live
- We offered to buy a home for $128,000 over list — but it wasn't enough!
- We sold our house!
- An uncertain future
- How to prepare for a natural disaster
- Selling our home was the best financial decision we have ever made
- Outsourcing my life: Why I pay others to do tasks I could do myself
- An introduction to square-foot gardening
- Should you pay off your mortgage early?
- The advantages of buying and owning a home
- Is your home a better investment than the stock market?
- “How much house can I afford?”
- 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
- Great small cities for millennials (or anyone seeking affordable urban spaces)
- 5 times to leave landscaping to the professionals
- Are home security systems worth the money?
- Lifestyle inflation: How to decide if it's ever okay
- Fire: Oh, that will never happen to me
- Looking out for your finances as a renter
- Challenging traditional measures of financial success: Homeownership
- 8 Surprise expenses for new homeowners
- How to spring clean your financial house
- Before and after: A $6 ceiling fan makeover
- How to winterize your home
- Home remodeling — when you can't (or don't want to) DIY
- The small house experiment
- Declutter and save your sense
- How to throw a yard sale when you're an apartment dweller
- 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?
- Being a landlord: Is it worth it?
- Should you buy a fixer-upper?
- Selling Your Home? Don’t Make This Costly Mistake
- Is Now a Good Time to Rent?
- Sheet dreams: How to shop for bed sheets
- How to buy quality furniture
- How much do you spend on housing?
- Going to the (organic) mattresses
- How we paid cash for our first home
- The economics of country mouse vs. city mouse
- Our roof repair: A typical tale of working with contractors
- 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
- How I built my own house — without a mortgage
- Do programmable thermostats really save money?
- Should we buy our dream house?
- How to slay energy vampires
- Moving? Rent first, ask questions later
- Unusual abodes: The grain bin home
- Home Safe Home? 27 Safety Precautions Under $40
- Further Adventures in Home Maintenance
- How I generate extra income by letting strangers pay my rent
- Do you get what you pay for?
- How I made my peace with hiring a housekeeper
- Does renting make sense?
- Is a Reverse Mortgage Right for You?
- Furniture and scambags: Adventures on Craigslist
- How much house do you need?
- 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
- Should you buy it? A flowchart for evaluating potential purchases
- Further adventures in my war on stuff
- How to buy a mattress
- Why we chose a 30-year mortgage
- Starting seeds indoors: Jump-start your garden today
- Save money with regular home maintenance
- Refinancing made easy: Our story
- How to rent out your spare room?
- 7 tips for starting your own vegetable garden
- 6 must-have characteristics to look for when buying a home
- Dealing with Disaster: A Brief Guide to Emergency Preparedness
- How to Prepare for Buying a Home
- Do-it-yourself landscaping can save thousands
- Selling your existing home while buying a new one
- Guarding Against the Invasion of Stuff
- How to stop junk mail in its tracks
- How to get rid of ants (Without calling an exterminator)
- Suze Orman's ultimate protection portfolio (and a do-it-yourself alternative)
- Energy Star: Saving Money Through Energy Efficiency
- The GRS garden project: How much does a garden really save?
- The pros and cons of an interest-only mortgage
- The New York Times rent vs. buy calculator
- 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?
- 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
- Review: Kill-a-Watt electricity usage monitor
- Saving electricity: How to reduce your energy costs
Shopping
- How self-centered shopping has made me happier with the things I buy
- 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)
- Buy it for life: Choosing quality over price
- 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?
- How many wedding gifts should you buy?
- How to avoid binge-shopping
- How to spend your money
Transportation
- Why I bought a NEW car
- How much does it cost to drive? Driving cost calculators and tools
- 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
- 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
- Do you repair your own car to save money?
- Consumer reports auto issue: Best and worst cars
- How to buy a car at auction
- Why I love the megabus: A closer look at a seldom-used (but cheap!) way to travel
- Biking vs. driving calculator
- Traffic violations and your auto insurance
- How to dispute your mechanic bill
- Save on Gas with Auto Maintenance
- Should I sell my car?
- How we bought a new car
- Should I sell my car on eBay Motors?
- When to replace your car
- Frugality in practice: Alternate modes of transportation
- Common car-dealer tricks
- Thoughts on a scooter-based lifestyle
- The inner workings of a car dealership (and how to use them to your advantage)
- Use Fuelly to track your fuel economy
- Buy a car or pay off debt?
- Edmunds True Cost-to-Own calculator
- How to improve your fuel economy: 23 top tips for better gas mileage
- 10 expert tips for saving on car insurance
- How to Sell a Used Car
- The true cost of car ownership
Travel
- My spending moratorium while on vacation
- Experimenting with ultra-light packing: How I packed light for 20 days on the road
- How much I spent during two weeks of travel
- How we used geographic arbitrage to pursue our dreams (and enrich our lives)
- Exploring the U.S. by RV: The price of adventure
- Using the Priority Pass for airport perks
- 5 ideas for a productive staycation
- 10 amazing waterfront rentals for under $1,000 per week
- Cheap luggage or expensive luggage?
- Should you travel in your 20s?
- Best way to redeem travel points: Why hoarding points is a bad investment
- What I Did On My Summer Vacation
- Why I Love Budget Travel
- A Month of Travel for Less than a Month at Home
- How I Save Money While Traveling
- Hostels for adults: Spend travel money where it counts
- Get the Most Mileage from Frequent Flier Rewards
- How to learn a foreign language without spending a cent
- Geographic arbitrage: Save money by leaving the country
- 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
- Traveling cross-country dirt cheap
- 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
- The razor's edge: Lessons in true wealth
- The Nonconformists’ Guide to Personal Finance
Saving & Investing
Banking
- Capital One 360 savings account review
- Who has the best savings account in 2021?
- Best checking accounts for 2018
- How and why you should start an emergency fund
- Which online high yield savings account is best? Updated 2021
- Market-linked CDs explained
- 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 ways to keep your financial information safer from hackers
- How to dispute credit card charges
- Wedding savings accounts: How I saved for my wedding
- Best CD rates | Certificate of Deposit rates
- Credit unions vs. banks: Things to consider
- Drawing the line with poor customer service
- 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
- What does it rake to make you switch banks?
- How to Choose the Right Bank Account
- How to open a money market account
- Online banking: Choices for higher interest rates and increased security
- Making the most of your checking account
- 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
Giving
- The perfect gift is cheap and easy
- How (and where) to donate unwanted Christmas presents
- Giving makes us happier, but what if you don't have much to give?
- How I stopped excessive gifting
- Why I still pick up pennies
- What are the moral implications of spending?
- Getting the most from your charitable deductions
- Christmas Gifts That Make a Difference
- Giving away, not selling, my stuff
- Using Consumerism for Social Good
- Social Capital: More Valuable Than Money?
- Give your wealth away: An argument for a secular tithe
- Why do you want to be rich?
- A DIY budget Christmas: 99 great gifts to start right now
Investing
- I lost money in crypto so that you don't have to!
- Your First Rental Property
- Series I savings bonds: A safe investment with a high return
- Stocks vs. bonds: What's the difference?
- What are dividends, and how do they work?
- Betterment Review
- Wealthfront Review
- What is a robo-advisor? An introduction to automated investment tools
- Who invented the index fund? A brief (true) history of index funds
- What's the best long-term investment?
- All that glitters: Why I'm not investing in gold
- What to do when the stock market crashes
- The best investing apps for 2021
- Which matters more for building wealth: Your saving rate or your investment returns?
- What we talk about when we talk about risk
- A visual history of U.S. bull and bear markets since 1926
- 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
- How much does the stock market return?
- Best online brokers for small investors and beginners 2018
- How to invest: An essential guide
- How mutual fund fees can cost you big bucks
- The difference between investing and speculation (or: The problem with Bitcoin)
- Is an annuity a good investment?
- What is a bond? What you need to know about managing risk
- How to Hire a Financial Planner (or Not)
- How to maximize returns while minimizing investment risk
- Why buying individual stocks is a bad idea
- Why you should make a home your first investment
- How to invest in index funds
- Should you buy a home or invest?
- What is an index fund exactly?
- What are mutual funds and how do they work?
- 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
- How to evaluate mutual funds to boost your returns
- Women, insecurity and money: Overcoming the confidence gap
- Indexing vs. stock-picking: You don't have to choose sides
- Should you consider ETFs for your portfolio?
- Can you really get rich quickly from fix and flipping homes?
- Act surprised: Your wedding ring is a terrible investment
- 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
- The sheep and the wolves: Smart investing made simple
- What is market timing, and should you do it?
- The one-page guide to financial freedom
- What are savings for?
- Treasury yield: The most important economic metric
- How to avoid hiring a shady financial adviser
- I bought a foreclosure house on the courthouse steps
- Easy ways to give your 401(k) a tune-up
- Is the Roth right for you?
- Coverdell Savings Account: Definition, Pros and Cons
- Are there any safe investments?
- Invest in this: How I pick stocks
- Investing in your investing education: A resource list
- The most powerful ways to secure your retirement
- Evaluating financial advisors
- 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
- Is Retirement Just Too Dang Risky?
- Learn More About Money from an Investment Group
- The Follies of Fortune Telling
- Spend on the things you do every day
- A Closer Look at Bonds
- Compound interest vs. increased income — Which matters more?
- Slowly get rich with dividends: Living on dividends alone?
- 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
- 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
- The marginal utility of money
- The Problem With Prognostication: Why You Shouldn't Invest Based on “Expert” Predictions
- How to get the best rates on your savings — safely
- How my real estate investing adventure came to an end
- Lessons learned from rushing into real-estate investing
- How I bought an 8-unit apartment building with no money down and walked away with $1000 cash at closing
- Getting Started with Asset Allocation
- Index Funds: Why Choose Anything Else?
- Pay yourself first: How you can overcome the challenge of saving
- What is portfolio diversification and how can it reduce risk?
- Making the most of small windfalls
- How Long You’ll Be Investing
- Investment Risk and the Growth of Wealth: The Importance of Course Corrections
- The passive way to investment success
- No Crystal Ball Required: Getting Better Investment Returns (Without Guessing)
- Developing an investment policy statement
- Three lessons from Warren Buffett
- How to create your own target-date mutual fund
- How to read a mutual fund prospectus
- How do bonds work and are they worth it?
- The Basics of Bonds
- Investing 101: An introduction to asset allocation
- Investing 101: Average is NOT Normal
- 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
- Meeting the Diehards: Profiting from Shared Wisdom
- Investing in a Bear Market
- Simplify your investing: An introduction to DRIPs
- The four pillars of investing
- Picking stocks with The Motley Fool's CAPS
- Trading Stocks: How Do I Find Good Stocks?
- What if you didn't start saving early? Advice for late bloomers
- The Compound Return Marathon: Which Retirement Strategy Will Win?
- The extraordinary power of compound interest
- The Number One Impact on Your Investments is YOU
- What to consider when opening your first brokerage account
- The pros and cons of Sharebuilder
- What if the Stock Market Makes You Nervous?
- Confessions of a Personal Finance Guru
- Which investments are best for Roth IRAs?
- How to open a Roth IRA
- When and How To Hire a Financial Planner
- What is Dollar-Cost Averaging? An introduction to DCA
- What is a Stock Market Index?
- What is a Stock?
- An introduction to financial statements
- What is Leverage?
- Prosper: Investing on YOUR Terms
- Are index funds the best investment?
- The beauty of penny stocks
- The billionaire next door: The wisdom of Warren Buffett
- Intro to Mutual Funds: Index Funds
Retirement
- Who coined the term FI/RE (financially-independent, retired early)?
- Drama in real life: Making planned gifts before death
- Myths and misconceptions about financial independence and early retirement
- We didn't start the FIRE: The true history of financial independence
- Early Retirement Extreme: The ten-year update
- The £200 Millionaire: An early retirement story from 1932
- The spend safely in retirement strategy
- Beyond wealth: What happens AFTER you achieve financial independence?
- Saving regret — and how to avoid it
- Am I financially independent? (And does it matter?)
- How to retire early: Early retirement by the numbers
- Time is more valuable than money
- What early retirement was like in 1957 (according to Life magazine)
- How to retire young
- Saving more and working longer: Two powerful ways to increase your retirement resources
- The four-percent rule for safe withdrawals during retirement: Theory versus reality
- How much should you spend in retirement?
- 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
- Work less, live more: The way to semi-retirement
- Life expectancy: The most important variable in retirement planning
- 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?
- Best cities to retire 2018
- The evolution of retirement
- The Essential Guide to Retirement
- What is a 702 Retirement Account?
- How many jobs is too many jobs?
- Starting to save for retirement at 40
- Retirement travel and frugal living
- Average 401(k) balance by age
- 5 key retirement factors your financial plan may not address
- The pursuit of passive income: Is it time to become a landlord?
- Coming to terms: Retirement vs. financial independence
- Success stories (and the people who hate them)
- How to retire abroad on $500 a month
- Taking the semi-retirement plunge without drowning in debt
- A few things to consider before becoming an expatriate
- 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
- Want More Money in Retirement? Work a Little Longer!
- What Will You Get from Social Security?
- Extreme early retirement in practice: How two people did it
- Risks That Can Derail Your Retirement
- Your Retirement Account Survival Guide
- What to do with an old 401(k)
- The most important factor in retirement savings
- Caring for aging parents
- Yes, you WILL get social security
- When Will You Be Able to Retire?
- Choosing a target-date fund
- Outsourcing life: Unconventional advice for when you're financially secure
- Women and Retirement
- The Roth IRA made easy
- Should you stop funding retirement to focus on debt?
- How much is your 401(k) costing you?
- Why I love the Roth IRA
- Using mini-retirements to get more out of life: An interview with Timothy Ferriss
- Which is better: a Roth IRA or a traditional IRA?
- What is a Roth IRA and why should you care?
- How compound returns favor the young
Money Mindset
- Life is not a game
- Growing up poor (and how it messed with my mind)
- One thing to my people (A prayer of thanksgiving)
- Great lessons from great women
- The seven deadly sins of personal finance
- The cluttered lives of middle-class Americans
- How to be happy and lead a meaningful life
- The crossover point: How to know when you've achieved financial independence
- What the rich do differently: Habits that foster wealth and success
Economics
- The economic well-being of average Americans
- Learning from history: How this all happened
- A lesson in economic violence
- Stopping the motor of the world
- How will the coronavirus affect your personal finances?
- 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
- 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 the economy works
- The plight of the poor: Thoughts on systemic poverty, fault, and responsibility
- 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 to profit from economic cycles
- The fall and winter seasons of the economic cycle
- Recognizing economic seasons: Recovery and growth
- Understanding economic cycles: An introduction
- HDHP with HSA: Friend or foe?
- A penny saved is a penny spurned? What to do with pockets full of change
- The time value of money (or why 25 years of cable TV doesn't cost as much as you think)
- The tiger mother and you: Are we preparing our kids for a better financial future?
- Want to make more money? Go back to school!
- Why I buy local
- Do credit cards take from the poor and give to the rich?
- Understanding the federal budget
- The spending habits of the average American
- The fall and rise of personal savings
- Hard Times: An oral history of the great depression
- Outside Looking In: How Others View Our Spending
- The national economy versus your personal economy
- The story of Stuff
- Scratch Beginnings: An interview with Adam Shepard
Planning
- Designing my life, part one: Building a compass
- The power of non-monetary investments
- Ask the Readers: Resources for Writing a Will?
- Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative
- The flywheel of wealth (and the importance of patience)
- How couples can create a shared plan for the future
- 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
- I'm 21 and pursuing the path to financial independence
- What is financial independence? The basics of FI explained in plain English
- Should you give money to your adult children?
- The cost of pet ownership: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Writing your financial autobiography
- How to check your Social Security benefits online
- Conducting a family goals conference
- The opportunity fund: How to be prepared for lucky breaks
- 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)
- Inheritance disputes: Avoiding the war when there's a will
- What is an apprenticeship?
- Year-end tax planning – 2015 checklist
- 7 sure-fire strategies to win college scholarships
- How much does it cost to start a side gig?
- Unexpected funeral costs – 3 financial lessons that could protect your heirs
- How to achieve long-term financial goals
- Personal finance and the long game
- Hidden advantages of savings accounts
- 30 days to better finances
- Is living without credit cards the best way to stay out of debt?
- The problem with being goal-oriented
- Buying rental property: Sometimes getting rich means taking it slowly
- Bad advice about having a baby I'm glad I followed
- Are you ready for a major power outage?
- The only two things you need to remember about funeral costs
- What do you do when someone constantly hits you up for money?
- In praise of financial resilience
- A meeting with my financial adviser
- 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?
- HSA pros and cons
- Friendships and financial inequality
- Keeping Your Head During Estate Settlement
- What would you do if you were rich?
- 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
- How to Do a Wallet Audit
- The bonus of bi-weekly pay
- How to donate your body to Science
- Make This Year Better by Asking the Right Question
- How to help a homeless friend?
- Deciding What to Buy
- Play the fooly-wed game!
- Turn Paranoia Into Plan B (Because Things Might Get Worse)
- How would you sell a collection?
- Estate Planning Essentials: Preparing for the Unpleasantly Possible
- 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
- Setting smart financial goals
- 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
- Emergency preparedness on a shoestring
- Getting Started with Estate Planning
- Conscious spending in action
- 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
- Allowance: For learning or reward?
- DIY personal finance: How to take control of your financial life
- Re-Thinking Retirement: Beyond Conventional Wisdom
- The High Cost of Modern Living
- How to find unclaimed money (and unclaimed property)
- Preparing for the Future: A Risk-Management Checklist
- What happens to your stuff when you die?
- The best way to pay for advice: The advantages of a fee-only financial advisor
- Instructions for the afterlife: Preparing for the inevitable
- 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
- Finding a financial guru
- How to Self-Diagnose Your Financial Health
- Learning to use money as a tool
- Planning a (Debt-Free) Dream Vacation
- Nobody cares more about your money than you do
- The Regrets of Christmas Past
- Are Pre-Nuptial Agreements For Everyone?
- Minimalist money: 6 steps to simplify your financial life
- Goals are the gateway to financial success
- The Best Ways to Boost Your Retirement
- What If You Don't Plan to Retire? Save Anyhow!
- Estate Planning 101: Preparing for the Possible — and the Inevitable
- 8 questions to ask BEFORE hiring a financial planner
- The Ways and Means of Coping with Emergencies
- How to Find Great Deals on Vacation and Travel
- George Kinder: Three questions about life planning
- Playing with numbers: Using spreadsheets to learn about money
- What's your why? The importance of finding meaning in your life
- The debt-to-income ratio: How much house can you afford?
- Creating a will: It's not as scary as you might think
- Setting and achieving family financial goals
- 7 Tips for Money and Marriage
- The non-conformists' guide to making money
- Use a Freedom Account to prepare for the unexpected
- Friends and money: Coping with social spending situations
- Calculate Your Economic Stimulus Tax Rebate
- How to prepare for a baby (without going broke)
- Mortgage prepayment made easy: Own your home in half the time
- The power of positive cash flow
- It's a Wonderful Life and the Value of Social Capital
- Why you SHOULDN'T prepay your monthly bills
- Money hack: Prepay your monthly bills
- Beating the high cost of weddings: How we did it, and how you can too
- A Brief Overview of Estate Planning Software
- Early Retirement: Couples Who Made It Happen
- Shaking the new car itch: A tale of priorities
- An introduction to the crossover point
- Questions and answers about Roth IRAs (Updated!)
- 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?
- The road to wealth is paved with goals
- How to organize your finances in four easy steps
- How to retire rich Dave Ramsey style
- Manage your finances like a professional gambler
- A Brief Guide to Creating a Will
- Make a wish list of financial goals
Productivity
- Essentialism: The mindful pursuit of quality
- The power of focus: Why you should tackle one goal at a time
- 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
- An Introduction to Time-Banking
Psychology
- The seven habits of highly effective people
- Using buy-in to create motivation
- My life philosophy: 52 lessons from 52 years
- The power of low expectations
- The power of habit tracking
- A year-long spending moratorium
- Action creates motivation
- I am the one thing in life I can control
- Great lessons from great men
- How to get started with difficult tasks
- Moderators and abstainers
- Different strokes for different folks
- 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?
- The psychology of passive barriers
- Why financial literacy fails (and what to do about it)
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- How I learned to stop feeling hopeless about money
- Discipline equals freedom: The difference between deprivation and depriving yourself
- Potential needs versus actual needs: Re-writing my financial blueprint
- What the marshmallow test can teach us about money
- The forever fallacy
- There are no shortcuts
- 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)
- 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
- The secret to a rich life
- Everyone hates a winner: How to cope with haters
- Teaching kids about money: How to raise money-smart kids
- Building financial empathy
- Fighting lifestyle inflation: Hopping off the hedonic treadmill
- Becoming proactive: The number-one secret to wealth, freedom, and happiness
- 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?
- What's wrong with consumerism and materialism? Lots
- Weird ways our brains control our money habits
- Our brains on scarcity: The trap of not having enough
- Motivation and money
- Becoming friends with your future self
- Gratitude is good for your soul … and your finances
- 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
- You are the boss of you: How to find success with life and money
- Is there morality in personal finance?
- The morality of personal finance
- Take a deep breath: Letting go of financial stress
- Financial enlightenment does not come from charts
- The rise and fall of the shopaholic
- 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?
- How Saving Money Cost Me Money
- How to handle people who undermine your success
- The statute of limitations on regret
- How to change your spending habits
- Trading time for money
- From the Trenches: An Update on My War on Stuff
- A philosophy of failure
- The Fear of Missing Out
- Class consciousness and social mobility
- Can money buy freedom?
- How to Fend Off Financial Trolls
- Empower Your Willpower
- Got the Urge to Splurge? Use These Strategies to Fight It (or Not)
- 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
- Every purchase is a trade-off
- 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
- The power of patience
- 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
- Gaming The System: Score Points With Your Savings
- Money ‘magic' to curb spending
- What to do when you're completely unsure
- 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!
- Use an Informational Interview to Overcome Mental Barriers
- Patience and Personal Finance
- How quickly wants can turn to needs
- Money and Relationships: A Matter of Control?
- Money, stress, and your health
- Money myths and the importance of thinking for yourself
- Spend Based on Who You Are, Not Who You Want to Be
- Warren Buffett on the lottery of birth
- The balance between splurger and miser
- The Hidden Cost of Spending While In Debt
- Love and Money: Do Savers Seek Spenders?
- Notes on Self-Study from a Killjoy Perfectionist
- It's more important to be happy than to be rich
- Where's your financial comfort level?
- 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
- 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
- Freedom from Mindless Spending
- Do Experiences Lead to Greater Happiness Than Material Purchases?
- How money-transfer scams work
- Finding balance between time and money
- How to Make Your Own Luck
- When Less is More: The Importance of Perceived Value
- You can't always get what you want: The dark side of personal finance
- 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
- Financial Success Comes from Within
- How to win the lottery
- The psychology of happiness: 13 steps to a better life
- 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
- Making the move from spender to saver
- Don't panic! Coping with financial mistakes and setbacks
- What's the safest thing I can do with my money?
- The Magic of Thinking Small
- How to handle a door-to-door salesman
- Proven methods for servers to increase their tips
- Tech Lust: How to Cope with Gadget Envy
- The Pastoral Lifestyle: A Life Removed from Day-to-Day Concerns
- Understanding the seven habits of wealth
- What is financial security?
- Three Questions About Money and Ethics
- Getting to now: How to beat the procrastination habit
- The Tyranny of Stuff
- The power of yes: A simple way to get more out of life
- The problem with the bank of mom and dad
- The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good (Walking example)
- Beware the Insidious Power of Marketing
- Facing and Fighting Financial Trolls
- What happens when you try to get rich quickly
- Control impulse spending with the 30-day rule
- Survey: What does money mean to you?
- Lessons About Money from the World of Warcraft
Relationships
- What I learned at Fincon 2022
- Learning to dance: How couples can have constructive conversations about money
- As good as it gets
- Both at the same time
- Quality time
- Drama in real life: Moving Mom to memory care
- Finding a millionaire money mentor
- How to talk with your parents about their finances
- A candid conversation about race in America
- Our first annual family meeting
- Financial advice from my father (when I was nineteen)
- 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
- 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
Money Tools
- A useful new tool to help you pick a place to live
- The Get Rich Slowly file vault
- My new Audible course on financial independence and early retirement!
- The GRS Holiday Gift Guide
- A list of personal-finance events, conferences, and retreats
- “Playing with FIRE”, the documentary about financial independence and early retirement
Apps
Books
- How to make better decisions
- 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
- How to get rich and stay rich
- Thinking in Bets: How to make smarter decisions
- Book review: Get money
- Cashing in on the American Dream: How to retire at 35
- 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
- ‘When She Makes More': 10 rules for breadwinning women
- The power of profit margin
- Career strategies of high earners
- Invest like Warren Buffett… but not really
- Why we buy: The science of shopping
- 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
- Book review: Early Retirement Extreme
- An interview with Thomas Stanley, co-author of “The Millionaire Next Door”
- Nine lessons in wealth-building from The Millionaire Next Door
- Finding financial benchmarks and milestones
- Are e-books cost effective? The pros and cons of e-books
- 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 Art of Non-Conformity
- Book review: Mind Over Money
- Book review: The happiness project
- You can negotiate anything
- The Paradox of Choice and the dangers of perfection
- The Quiet Millionaire
- Failing forward: Transforming mistakes into success
- 25 essential books about money
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- Fail-safe investing? Harry Browne's permanent portfolio
- How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously
- Book review: I Will Teach You to Be Rich
- Magazines (and websites) about homesteading and self-sufficiency
- Confessions of a Butcher: Eating Steak on a Hamburger Budget
- Career Renegade: Make a Living Doing What You Love
- Interview: The Motley Fool's David Gardner talks about stock-market investing
- Million Dollar Portfolio: The Motley Fool Guide to Stock-Market Investing
- Book Review: The Power of Less
- Yes, You Can Achieve Financial Independence
- 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
- 50 prosperity classics in a nutshell
- Book Review: 50 Prosperity Classics
- Tim Ferriss on the Power of Personal Entrepreneurship
- How to take a sabbatical
- Robert Kiyosaki: Increase your financial IQ
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 10 Ways to Save Money on Books
- Money-Making Hobbies (from 1938)
- 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
- Phil Town's rule #1 investing
- 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
Insurance
- How to get what you deserve when filing an insurance claim
- How to cancel COBRA insurance
- What is COBRA insurance? (and other frequently asked questions)
- My experience with alternative health insurance to Obamacare
- One way to survive without health insurance
- 6 ways to lower your home insurance
- Insurance: An easier way to comparison shop
- Preparing for the inevitable
- Health insurance options for the self-employed
- Insurance: Share the risk
- Risk-a-Palooza: All that can go wrong and how to prevent it
- Is long-term care insurance worth it?
- How much is pet insurance?
- How I Purchased Private Health Insurance
- Insurance basics: How car insurance works
- Insurance basics: How to save on insurance
- Insurance basics: How insurance works
- How much life insurance do you REALLY need?
- Recession-Proofing Your Life Insurance
- Renters insurance: Peace of mind for ten bucks a month
- 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
Sites
Administration
- A man of no ambition
- Sabbatical
- Call for reader questions and stories!
- Marijuana and me
- One thing leads to another
- My 2020 in review: Steps in the right direction
- Introducing “Morning Musings”
- Which financial apps, products, and services should we review?
- A short list of useful coronavirus resources
- Five short anecdotes about money
- FinCon 2019 and the future of Get Rich Slowly
- This blog is now a teenager: Thirteen years of Get Rich Slowly
- The modern wealth index
- The optimization trap
- There are pros and cons to everywhere
- My financial philosophy: The core tenets of Get Rich Slowly
- Financial freedom is time freedom
- 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 guilt of wealth
- 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
- Review: You need a budget
- Seven money strategies to master in 2017
- What is social capital (and why should you care)?
- Millennial Homeownership Rates Have NOTHING to Do with Student Loan Debt
- Is $10 million enough to never worry about money again?
- The four seasons: A new way to look at the U.S. economy
- 529 plans vs. prepaid 529 plans
- 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
- Taking control of time and life
- The Money Boss Manifesto: A brief guide to financial freedom
- 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?
- How to Set Goals and Resolutions You'll Actually Keep
- Improve your negotiation skills with BATNA
- Bad customer service? Talk to the CEO
- How I'm changing my relationship with money
- Do you read the fine print?
- What your loose change is really worth
- What to do with all that clutter: sell it, swap it, give it away
- Developing systems that work
- How to replace six vital documents
- How to safeguard your social security number
- If you're going to buy a warranty, shop around
- The get rich slowly philosophy
- Action beats inaction
- Suze Orman jumps aboard the “pay with cash” bandwagon
- Net worth: The most important number in personal finance?
- Using an allowance to teach kids about money
- Best personal finance podcasts
- How to inoculate your children against advertising
- An angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other
- Missing money: Finding unclaimed property
Uncategorized
- A values-driven life
- Cool projects from some of my friends
- GRS Insider #92: Racism is not a political issue. Racism is a MORAL issue.
- Linchpin habits: Minimum effort for maximum results
- More on the value of negotiating
- How to stay rich when you win the lottery
- 5 Ways to a Lower Mortgage Payment, According to a Realtor
- Saving for Your Newborn
- What is a Spousal IRA?
- 2016 Guide to IRA Contribution Limits, Deadlines and Deductions
- Savings Strategies: Little Moves That Equal Big Money
- What are Pay as you Earn (REPAYE) Student Loans?
- Balancing expectations for bonus-and-raise season
- What to buy on Black Friday
- What older children need to know about money
- Breaking the stress spending cycle
- The cultural shift toward financial security
- Lifestyle inflation: Can it be done responsibly?
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Bargain
- Confession: I Don't Track Every Penny
- How to File a Consumer Complaint
- Signs of Financial Relationship Trouble?
- 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 to Have More Money
- A Meeting of Minds: Financial Blogger Conference 2011
- Putting First Things First
- Why I hate “new, unique” money tips
- Women and Money: Slaying Stereotypes and Facing Reality
- Does Your Spending Match Your Values?
- Financial advice for an 18-year-old?
- Stopping Shopping Momentum
- Who's Spying on (and Profiting from) Your Browsing Habits?
- Living The Examined Life: Personal Data Collection is a Powerful Tool for Change
- Can You Afford to Go Green?
- Made by Hand: In Praise of Amateurs
- What Marriage Has Taught Me About Money
- Online Tools for Mindful Consumerism
- A Brief Guide to Holiday Tipping
- Financial Balance Lets You Enjoy Tomorrow AND Today
- Master Your Money with a Financial Health Day
- The Anti-Stuff Holiday Gift Guide
- Large Amounts Matter Too
- Where We're Starting From
- My financial infrastructure
- Safe Money in Tough Times: Questions and Answers with Jonathan Pond
- How I Cut My Television Bill in Half
- The Personal Finance Gift Guide
- Do the Tools of Personal Finance Actually Work?
- The Best Mortgage Rates of 2018
- Leverage, Luck, and Living Well: A Conversation with Financial Columnist Scott Burns
- The 13 Commandments of Savvy Consumers
- Talking With Friends About Money
- My Paperless Personal Finance System: A Work in Progress
- Money and Values: The Ecology of Commerce
- Negotiate Once, Save Thousands Every Year
- The Architecture of Personal Finance: Choosing the Right Materials
- Mystery Checks in the Mail
- In Pursuit of Paperless Personal Finance
- How to Find Great Deals on eBay
- Money Day: Your Personal Finance Holiday
- Clutter's Last Stand: The Cost of Buying Things You Will Not Use
- 7 Essential Skills to Protect Yourself from Scammers
- Dumb Things I Sometimes Do
- When Did You Start Caring About Your Finances?
- How Do You Teach Kids the Value of Money?
- How to Find an Accountant
- Saving Money vs. Making Money
- The Politics of Personal Finance
- Lattes, iPods, and Masterworks: New Ways to Look at Money
- How to Get Better Customer Service
- Financial Advice from a Founding Father
- Scary Story: Billed for Service I Never Received