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Reader stories: The importance of number crunching

Published Sunday, April 21, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from Corinne Hoener. Corinne is a long-time GRS reader and personal finance geek living in Brooklyn, NY with her partner and two cats. Some reader stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success or failure. These stories feature folks with all levels of financial maturity and income. Want to submit your own reader story? Here’s how. […]

Spare change: The financial literacy edition

Published Friday, April 19, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer April Dykman. If you read Get Rich Slowly regularly, you probably know that this is Financial Literacy Month. And my inbox has been filled with press releases about it, like best practices for financial literacy and 30-day programs to get your finances on track. But for me, tactics like those didn’t spur me to become financially literate. […]

Defining a healthy dose of lifestyle inflation

Published Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer Holly Johnson. On April 1st, I got an unpleasant surprise, and it wasn’t an April Fools joke or gag. I found out that one of our renters didn’t have enough money to pay all of his rent. Since nothing like this has ever happened before, I was definitely caught off guard. Still, it wasn’t the end of the world. […]

Will you have what you need when you need it?

Published Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This is a post from staff writer Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. Let’s say I told you of a company whose stock posted the best 15-year return of any Fortune 500 company between 1965 and 1995, earning more than 18.5 times the return of the S&P 500. […]

Financial literacy: What’s my motivation?

Published Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer April Dykman. Were you required to take a personal finance class in high school? I wasn’t. And I’m not in the minority. […]

How to audit your own investments

Published Monday, April 15, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer Lisa Aberle. I’ve hinted before that I was a passive investor. And by passive, I mean that I have always set up a 401(k) and IRAs, then promptly ignored them. But since 2013 is the year I want to learn more about investing, I knew I needed to evaluate our current investment portfolio. Am I saving enough for retirement? Am I diversified? […]

Are there any safe investments?

Published Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This guest post is from William Cowie, who has contributed to Get Rich Slowly and other personal finance blogs. He also blogs about investing and offers a free Investing Basics course on Bite the Bullet Investing. Earlier this month our readers were asked, regarding your personal financial journey: “What is the next step?” The answer J.D. offered in his 2009 article was… investing. Why invest? […]

Ask the Readers: 4 options for the next step

Published Friday, April 12, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

Ken is sending his financial situation into the GRS ether to see what you have to say. Here’s a snapshot of his finances: I thoroughly enjoyed reading your article “What Next” and the “Ask the Readers: What is the Next Step?” because that is my situation. I have been struggling for the past year to figure out where to focus my attention. I am married with no children. […]

Why I plan on driving my car into the ground

Published Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer Kristin Wong. Over the weekend, a friend and I were enjoying a couple of beers in my neighborhood. As we sat outside people watching, he drooled over every fancy car that drove by. “That’s a whatever-whatever,” he would tell me. “It costs $100,000.” I live in Los Angeles, where these symbols of affluence are common. “I can’t help it,” I told him. […]

Review: ‘All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan’

Published Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is by staff writer Honey Smith. There are many personal finance books out there, useful to people in all stages of personal finance. I have a lot to learn before reaching financial independence, and the editorial elves thought it would be useful if I shared some of what I learn with you. So for the foreseeable future, I will be reviewing one PF-related book per month. […]