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Get Rich Slowly: The Course
This article is from J.D. Roth, who founded Get Rich Slowly in 2006. J.D.’s non-financial writing can be found at More Than Money.
Here it is, 2:22 on a Tuesday afternoon. I’ve been up for more than 48 hours straight with only brief naps snatched here and there. I’m exhausted — but I’m happy. What’s the deal? Am I a proud new papa?
Well, as most of you are aware by now, I am a father of sorts. This morning at 9 a.m., after nearly a year of effort, I launched my latest project, a 52-week guide to building wealth. Like this site, the course is called Get Rich Slowly, and I think it’s the best work I’ve ever done.
What’s so good about Get Rich Slowly: The Course? Let me tell you!
More on how to stop buying clothes you never wear
This article is by staff writer April Dykman.
More than four years ago, I wrote a post for Get Rich Slowly about how to stop buying clothes you never wear. I wasn’t sure how it would go over, to be honest. We don’t discuss fashion much in our little corner of the Internet, and I also worried about being judged for my sordid, non-frugal past.
But it was a problem I’d had struggled with, and it was a problem that cost me a lot of money over the years. And in the 100+ comments on the original post, many of you said that you’ve struggled with the same problem.
So here we are four years later, and I’m happy to report that my wardrobe is even smaller and more functional today. And since I’ve picked up new tips these last few years, I thought it’d be helpful to update my original post.
Cutting grocery bills: Aldi and bulk-food stores
This article is by staff writer Lisa Aberle.
No matter what I do, we’re still spending more on food each month than I want to be spending. Two of my weapons in the battle to lower my food bill that I haven’t talked about yet are Aldi and bulk-food stores.
One thing I don’t like to do is stop at several different stores, so I don’t shop at all stores every week, or even every two weeks. Both these stores are small, and I prefer to shop at these stores instead of Walmart or other huge stores. (Does anyone else get exhausted by the sheer number of decisions, people, and products in the huge stores?)
Positives about Aldi
Talking with Gretchen Rubin about money and happiness
Note: This article is from J.D. Roth, who founded Get Rich Slowly in 2006. J.D.’s non-financial writing can be found at More Than Money, where he recently wrote about how to be happy.
As part of the Get Rich Slowly course (out this Tuesday!), I interviewed 18 of my favorite financial experts (and non-financial experts). Combined, these interviews comprise over eight hours of audio and more than 200 pages of written transcripts, all of which will be available as part of the package.
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Ask the Readers: How do you control your time?
We’ve been discussing the value of time a lot lately. For me, it’s been an appropriate topic. Lately, my work-life balance has been out of control. There are a few reasons for this:
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I’ve been giving into time-sucks.
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I’m struggling to organize a few new writing gigs into my schedule.
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I don’t give myself any breathing room.
My year-long quest to create a guide to mastering money
Note: This article is from J.D. Roth, who founded Get Rich Slowly in 2006. J.D.’s non-financial writing can be found at More Than Money, where he recently wrote about how to be happy.
Giving makes us happier, but what if you don’t have much to give?
This article is by staff writer Kristin Wong.
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, or maybe it’s that I’m in a better financial place than I was just a few years ago, but lately, I’ve been thinking a lot more about giving back.
In recent years, it’s becoming more important to me to be socially conscious and charitable. I’m secure, I’m healthy, and I’m free. That contentment seems to urge me to check in on the rest of the world.
Or, maybe it’s coming from a more selfish place.
According to a new research paper from Harvard Business School, spending money on others makes us happy.
Giving makes us happier
The paper, titled, “Prosocial Spending and Happiness,” was published this year in Current Directions in Psychological Science. In it, psychologists write:
8 years of Get Rich Slowly
Note: This article is from J.D. Roth, who founded Get Rich Slowly in 2006. J.D.’s non-financial writing can be found at More Than Money.
Eight years ago today, I started a new blog. Inspired by the success of a popular post at my personal site, I sat down to create what I thought would be the first personal finance blog on the Internet. (I was wrong, of course; there were plenty of similar blogs before mine.) I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Foreclosure from the tenant’s perspective: Honey’s story
This article is by staff writer Honey Smith.
In November, we thought we’d reached the last straw in terms of the condo we have been renting. We’d had numerous problems with our place and our landlord (namely, not fixing things when they broke — major or minor). However we ultimately decided that, although the right choice wasn’t obvious, there were too many aspects of our lives up in the air to move at that moment.
Then, on December 30, our landlord told us that they weren’t going to be able to refinance our property. The condo we live in was going into foreclosure. The auction was scheduled for December 31.
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