As I slowly bring Get Rich Slowly back to life, I intend to revive some of the regular features from the old days. On Sundays, for instance, I used to highlight a reader story. And on Fridays I (or a GRS reader) asked you a question.
Since I haven't even been back on the job a week, there's not much of an audience here yet. I'm fine with that. I'm taking the long view. Until I get a few questions from you guys — for right now, send them to user jdroth at Money Boss — I'll come up with some of my own.
Here's the first.
At the moment, Get Rich Slowly is featuring daily “wall of text” text articles. This isn't my long-term plan.
Once I have access to everything behind the scenes, I want to move GRS to something more like kottke.org or Daring Fireball but for money. These sites curate cool material from around the web while occasionally publishing longer essays. I envision Get Rich Slowly doing something similar but with money. (Again, a very rough look at my planned redesign can be found at my animal intelligence site.)
To make a site like that work, I need a constant stream of intersting articles (and podcasts and videos) about money. There are plenty of subreddits to sift through, such as /r/personalfinance, /r/churning, /r/awardtravel, /r/investing, /r/finance, /r/realestate, /r/frugal, and /r/financialindependence (and its siblings, /r/leanfire and /r/fatfire).
But I want to create a wide library that I can sift through — a library of blogs, email lists, podcasts, magazines, YouTube channels, subreddits, newspaper columns and more.
That brings me to my question: What are your favorite sources of information about money? Where do you go to get your daily dose of financial wisdom? I'm especially interested in other sources of curated material. I'm also keen on finding quality video content. But really, I'm just looking for your favorite places to get great personal finance advice.
Tell me where I should go to find awesome money stories to share with GRS readers!
And have no fear, I'm not going to turn Get Rich Slowly into a site that only curates. Like I said, I envision something like Kottke or Daring Fireball, but for money. Lots of curated material, sure, but also plenty of original material. Even when I do curate, I'll provide commentary. And, as I said, I'll continue to highlight material from you, the readers.
It's going to be awesome!
Author: J.D. Roth
In 2006, J.D. founded Get Rich Slowly to document his quest to get out of debt. Over time, he learned how to save and how to invest. Today, he's managed to reach early retirement! He wants to help you master your money — and your life. No scams. No gimmicks. Just smart money advice to help you reach your goals.
My only regular sources right now are Bogleheads.org, the Washington Post Economy and Business Seection, and mymoneyblog.com. Bogleheads.org is definitely the most imformative.
I think Dan Erickson is doing some of the best blogging — some of the best down-to-earth *storytelling*– on the internet right now. He’s not a personal finance blogger per se, but most all his articles tangentially deal with success and money — he just comes at it from a different angle, kinda like Leo at Zen Habits and Mnmlist.
But here’s an example from Dan’s Hip Diggs blog:
http://www.hipdiggs.com/confessions-closet-consumerist/
And here’s a video example from his self-titled Dan Erickson site (JD, you’ve been preaching this for years — that the perfect is the enemy of the good):
http://www.danerickson.net/first-video-perfectionsim/
Frugalwoods, The Simple Dollar, 1500 Days, The Billfold, NY Times’ Dealbook, among others. Lifehacker’s money articles are usually good (and directed at a wider audience than just the personal finance community, which I think makes them more relatable).
Totally depends on what TYPE of content I want to consume. I love the personal finance world because it blends personal stories with tips, tricks, and good advice. Mad Fientist is a great resource for some more actual ‘how to’ type stuff, too, which I find great.
If I’m looking for news and such that’s obviously a totally different ball-game.
If I’m looking for bland mechanics, Investopedia is normally my first stop and then I cross-check it with other sources.
I lurk on most of the Reddit pages you linked to, except the churning and travel related ones. They are interesting but I rarely use them as a sole spot for advice or information. They help me understand some of the challenges other people go through though, and can provide some good links to news articles that are relevant in the money world.
I honestly don’t read blogs about money. I do occasionally visit sites like Zen Habits and Becoming Minimalist. I focus less on the money aspects of live and more on how simple living can help us build habits for success. One reason I don’t read a lot of financial blogs is that they are too “technical” and I personally like “motivational.” As you redevelop the site, I’d like to see more short motivational posts that can help us take little daily steps in life. I write at both Hip Diggs and http://www.danerickson.net.
Also, in regard to your potential new design, JD, I’m not sure about everyone, but I tend to like more white space on a blog. It helps the basic message to stand out. It’s easy on the eyes.
The Bigger Pockets site/podcast is wealth of information on real estate:
https://www.biggerpockets.com/podcast
ChooseFI is a newer podcast that puts things at the perfect level of detail, not too simple, not too esoteric:
http://www.choosefi.com/
Well, well, well, look at who this week’s guest is!
Blog wise, I’m rather limited. I like some of the youtube videos put out by Dave Ramsey. I also tend to read Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine through RBDigital App and my library.
I used to read http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com but my interest kind of waned.
I use RSS (I know – move out of the dinosaur world, but it works for me). I subscribe to feeds and view my feeds throughout the days. Ones I am subscribed to in my PF section are: Financial Samurai, Freedom with Bruno, GRS, Lazy man and money, MMM, My Dollar Plan, Retire by 40, The Simple Dollar, Wall Street Survivor Blog, Let Luc Finance. There are others where I might pick up some information (or additional color) like lifehacker, slashdot, ars technica, Reuters – us news, BBC top news feeds.
Choose FI podcast, PortfolioCharts, GRS :-), Money Boss, Root of Good, Mr. Money Mustache, Investable Wealth LLC, JL Collins, Money Lab, Mad Fientist, Indie Hackers, Indie Hackers Interviews, Side Hustle School, The Survival Podcast, Successful Dropout, The Voluntary Life, The Lara-Murphy Show, FEE.
Not all of those are exactly about money, but they might hit the topic occasionally or tell about recent financial events (as I don’t normally read the regular news).
Hey, of course I have to say http://www.themortgagereports.com for all things mortgage. We have been around forever and have earned multiple awards. I myself am muckrack verified, have written for GRS as a QuinStreet writer, and ellie mae follows me n twitter. jack guttentag, too, another mortgage powerhouse. And we have Peter g. Miller onboard, so
I read The Simple Dollar and Planting Our Pennies on the regular.
I like personal stories of financial issues and overcoming them.
Insurance and more frugal options with updates during usage
Unique situations with broad ideas
Food and money blogs
I think previous comments have covered the money blogging space pretty well. But since I already follow a decent chunk of those individually, aggregating content from them would just add a bunch of duplication to my feeds. (I recommend either having two feeds or having “Links from around the web”-style posts so that you can put a bunch of aggregated content in one update)
One thing that I don’t see as much of as I’d like is reviews of full books on money topics. If you like spending your time researching money anyway, covering books on the topic would be something I’d be interested in reading.
A couple of people I really like that haven’t been mentioned are Michelle Singletary, the Washington Post columnist, and Mary Hunt of Debt Proof Living and Everyday Cheapskate. I like that they are both down to earth and try to write for regular people, not necessarily the FI/RE crowd. I do read some of the other blogs that were mentioned also.
Glad you’re enjoying the site, man :)
You might like what The Penny Hoarder is now doing over there.. he went from blog to like content-churning MACHINE, but with pretty interesting/juicy/hilarious stuff… Lots of riffing off what’s in the news too, which you’d probably find helpful.
I Will Teach You to Be Rich (OK, I mostly skim)
Dave Ramsey Says (doesn’t post often, but good)
The Simple Dollar (great!)
The Journal of Accountancy (I’m studying to be an accountant, so it’s particularly relevant)
The Economist (world money news–you need to buy a subscription, but it’s excellent)
Those are the blogs/news sites I follow for money info. But a lot of it I just get from daily life. Listening to customers at work (I work retail at a fabric store–lots of elderly women), my own spending choices, helping my parents with retirement, etc.
For something very different I would like to recommend meanqueen-lifeaftermoney.blogspot.com This blog is written by an older retired lady in England and has a big following of older and poorer retirees in the UK and the US, The writer is quirky and inspiring in her frugal but full lifrstyle.
THE SIMPLE DOLLAR
The Simple Dollar, Wise Bread, and Tip Hero are some of my go-to sites.
Hey good too see you back in charge of this.
What I read: The Wild Wong has been blogging steadily on Lifehacker since she left here. I’ve been reading her regularly and commenting there. She’s good (always was).
The other thing I’ve been looking at lately is YNAB videos (and classes– great classes.) They have a massive library on youtube.
I’m really liking YNAB. I’ve actually merged YNAB with the BMF (it’s not hard). It’s a little involved but really helpful– adds definition to savings, basically. Good stuff.
ps- you gotta turn off the *all caps* xD
Haha. Yeah, the ALL CAPS are still frustrating. The good news is I got the database dump and other files yesterday afternoon. The bad news it’ll still take some time to move everything to a new server. But once I do, then we’ll have comments back to normal.
Mike and Lauren are an excellent YouTube channel about FI and lifestyle design. They’ve made a lot of unconventional moves and it has been enjoyable to see them adapt to changing life circumstances. The Financial Diet is another channel that is dryer in presentation, but also has some good tidbits.
youtube videos:
The Minority Report
Dave Ramsey Show
My favorite blogs lately are Frugalwoods and Grizzly Mom and Dad. Both feature parents of young children who reached FIRE early, but Frugalwoods has more homesteading and frugal parenting discussion/advice while Grizzly Mom and Dad sometimes gets quite meaty with analyzing real estate, investment options, etc. (As you might guess, I’m a mom of three young kids, so these two blogs are quite relatable for me at present.) So glad you’re back!
We use Twitter, our Feedly board (which is where we found this post) and a curated Facebook feed. Reddit and Skimfeed are also useful, but a bit less consistent. Our Feedly board is http://feedly.com/tiller
Financial Samurai, Paula Pant, Ramit Sethi, Moneyologist, Mad Fientist, J Money.
IMO Financial Samurai is probably the most underrated/unknown site on the internet…it’s the only PF blog for which I actually went back and read all the posts from the beginning. Great stuff.
Look forward to the changes.
Some of my favorite blogs are as follows
1. Simple Dollar
2. Boldanddetermined.com
3. Iwillteachyou to be rich.com
Thanks for the update and I hope everything works out for you.
I like Frugal blogs, Investopedia, The Krazy Coupon Lady, The Simple Dollar etc.
I also buy a lot of stuff through cashback sites, so I’m always checking cashbackholic.com for the best deals.
Hi JD,
honestly, I spent so many years reading blogs and websites and places where to get information about money are always the top websites.
But what I find interesting read is http://www.zerohedge.com
there is always a great point of view on this blog
Paulo
A couple I haven’t seen:
– http://donnafreedman.com/
– http://jlcollinsnh.com/
– http://thepowerofthrift.com/
– https://sexhealthmoneydeath.com/
– http://monevator.com/
– http://thenonconsumeradvocate.com/
– http://agaishanlife.com/
I go back to those sites again and again, but for different reasons. JL Collins is a favorite for investing and strategy; Donna Freedman, The Power of Thrift and A Gai Shan Life are just wonderful and interesting people with good ideas on living and money; non-consumer advocate is an absolute favorite for encouragement; Monevator is a place for thoughtful study; and Sex Health Money Death is good food for thought about actually being retired.
Bogleheads forum & The Dough Roller podcast are my main ones.
Welcome back! I just randomly stumbled back on to GRS today after not reading in years, but am excited you purchased it back. I wanted to comment on this particular post because I do think the blogging world has really changed over the past few years. My current main sources of personal finance information are some actual news site’s money articles (BBC News, Seattle Times, etc) and even more so – YouTube channels. I watch the Dave Ramsey Show’s shorter video clips daily and am subscribed to a few different YouTubers that are paying off their debt. I think a lot of people have taken to YouTube videos instead of blogging their personal finance stories these days.