4 Ways Reading the Newspaper Will Make You Rich and Famous

Reading the Newspaper

Last year, everyone proclaimed that print newspapers were dying. It turns out that fewer newspapers have gone under than some had predicted, but I don’t think anyone is announcing that newspapers ...

Getting Real Value from Budgets

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When I reached my financial bottom in April 2006, one of my first responses was to simply start reading a lot about personal finance. I checked out a pile of books from the library on personal finance and tackled a lot of different suggestions from those books, along with some of my own ideas that I came up with ...

Outliers and Frugality

About a year and a half ago, I reviewed Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent book Outliers. In that review, I talked about one of Gladwell’s key points in the book, that a great deal of practice will make a person good at anything:

The more important (and interesting) part of the chapter, though, discusses the huge role that nearly-obsessive practice plays in ...

Review: Point, Click, and Save

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Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest.

MashupMom.com is one of the better coupon and sale aggregating blogs out there (meaning that most of the content posted is either sales at various stores or coupons for various products). I have mixed feelings about such sites. On the one hand, I do ...

Paying for Packaging: It’s Time to Stop

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Next time you take a walk through the grocery store, take a look at the packaging — especially on relatively expensive items. Any item with a lot of packaging always costs more ...

Professional Home Inspection Service Checklist – Tips & What’s Included

If you are about to purchase your first home, there are several things you need to do. It does not matter if the home is brand new and has never been lived in; get the inspection anyway.

The first and most important thing you need to do is get pre-approved for a mortgage, unless you are fortunate enough to ...

Review: Better Groceries for Less Cash

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Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest.

Better Groceries for Less Cash by Randall Putala has a subtitle that pretty clearly describes what you’ll find inside the covers: 101 Tested and Proven Ways to Save on Food. While organized into chapters, this fairly short book’s main purpose is to simply relate a ...

When to Use a Credit Card Instead of a Debit Card

There are a lot of strong feelings out there against credit cards. Plenty of folks insist that if you use credit cards, EVER, you are on the road to financial ruin. No matter how disciplined you are. It is true that credit cards have long been connected to the idea of “easy money” and instant gratification. However, when used with ...

What Do You Really Have to Lose?

This post goes out to all of the readers who are about to graduate from college (and from high school, for that matter) and are wondering what comes next (hopefully, you already know and have a plan for it, but if you do, you’re in the minority).

A few days ago, a college student I know was talking about his upcoming ...

What Is Cash Flow And How To Improve It

I believe that cash flow is one of the most powerful concepts in personal finance. People tends to know how they feel about their personal finance — e.g., whether they are comfortable or are struggling. Unfortunately, not too many people truly understand cash flow and how important it is to your finances. When you understand the concept of cash flow ...

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