The Simple Dollar

One tactic I mention regularly for saving money on your food purchases is to watch the grocery store flyer for sales, then plan your meals (and shopping lists) around those sales. This tactic really works - I’ve saved quite a bit doing this over the years. However, things aren’t quite that simple - you can’t just trust the store flyer. […]

The third episode of The Simple Dollar Podcast focuses on short-term goals. I talk about several of my own short-term goals and discuss some tactics anyone can apply to make their short term goals and projects a reality. Also discussed: C.S. Lewis, awful corporate motivational posters, Woodward and Bernstein, and which baseball announcer I sound the most like. […]

One aspect of buy-and-hold investing in low-cost index funds that has always attracted me is that there is an extremely low time cost. Once you have the initial investments in place, there is virtually no time cost at all. All you have to do is invest maybe half an hour a year rebalancing the investments - and that’s it. That strategy pretty much matches the stock market. […]

Every other week, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book. Greg Karp is the author of the “Spending Smart” column which appears in a number of newspapers nationwide - it’s typically a pretty good read, though Greg didn’t fall on my radar screen until I read his first book, Living Rich by Spending Smart. Almost a year ago, I wrote a sparklingly positive review of Living Rich by Spending S […]