Posted January 7, 2009 - 00:27 by Xin Lu
Personal Finance, General Tips, Lifestyle
One summer my mother showed me a series of articles in Money magazine by a reporter named Ryan D'Agostino who knocked on the doors of expensive homes to find out how the occupants became rich. These articles were quite memorable for me because I thought it was hilarious how the author literally invaded the private property of rich people. Now a couple years later, D'Agostino has collected the entire experiment along with his personal stories into a book called Rich Like Them.
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Posted June 19, 2008 - 17:54 by Philip Brewer
Personal Finance, Career and Income
There are a lot of ways to become rich. Some people work hard and save their money. Some people win the lottery. Some people invent something wonderfully useful. An awful lot of people who get rich, though, do it by being evil. Here's a quick look at some evil tactics, and some thoughts on whether they can work for you.
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Posted April 16, 2008 - 18:00 by Kate Luther
Personal Finance, Career and Income, Life Hacks, Budgeting, Lifestyle, General Tips
A while back I posted the first of what I promised would be "Ten Tenets to Arranging Your Rich". And wouldn't you know it, right after posting Tenet #1, things got a little crazy and life interfered with my blogging plans. Go figure :)In any event, I think we're back on track now and as promised, we've got nine more tenets to go. So, without further adieu, here's tenet #2: The same actions will produce the same results.
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Posted March 21, 2008 - 11:01 by Philip Brewer
Personal Finance, Frugal Living
You don't hear it much any more, but for a long time, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich" was a pretty effective line for the average Joe when dealing with somebody who was smarter than him. The expression has kind of fallen out of fashion lately. Nowadays, there are too many rich smart people.
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Posted February 25, 2008 - 12:03 by Xin Lu
Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Announcements
This week is officially America Saves Week 2008. This is a campaign started in 2007 by many government agencies and private entities to encourage Americans to save because the personal savings rate of Americans is nearly zero. This year the focus is on automatic savings. Read on to see what the campaign is all about!
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Posted February 19, 2008 - 16:39 by Kate Luther
Personal Finance, Career and Income, Life Hacks, General Tips, Making Extra Cash, Lifestyle, Budgeting
There are some guiding principles to arranging your own wealth. Ten, in fact. Ten important "tenets" to keep you grounded and on track as you begin the "arranging your rich" process.
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Posted November 19, 2007 - 15:00 by Nora Dunn
Personal Finance, Lifestyle
Is wealth about money, or having goals, or achieving milestones, or something completely different? Read on for a description of what a wise friend told me wealth might actually be about.
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After reading Ed's post about Afluenza , I began thinking long and hard about what I have in my life that really matters to me. It's all very well keeping up with the Joneses, but at the end of the day it really doesn't mean anything. I was talking to a fireman a few months ago and he said that time after time, the things people run back into a blazing house for are not valuable (as far as other people are concerned). It's not the big-screen TV or the gold Rolex. No, it's the family photo albums, the teddy bear granny gave you 30 years ago, or the love letters from your sweetheart who is now your loving partner.
Continue reading "The things that money just can't buy"
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My favorite lesbian: I recently purchased Suze Orman's latest book (at Costco, for $10 off of the retail price), "Women & Money". I'm not including the unnecessarily long subtitle about Owning the Power to Control Your Powerful Financial Destiny of Power or whatever, because I feel like the title "Women & Money" more or less sums it all up.
Continue reading "Is There Such Thing as a Messy Millionaire?"
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