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America’s Love-Hate Relationship with Wealth

{ Posted on Nov 14 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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Categories : Advanced, All, Economics, Get Rich Slowly, News, Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
I was on the road for the past two months, first in Chicago, and then in Bolivia and Peru. As always happens, one of the side effects of travel is that I’ve been living in a media vacuum. For the ...Read More »

How to Buy a Pension with a Lifetime Annuity

{ Posted on Oct 31 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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This is a guest post from Mike Piper, a long-time GRS reader and the author of Oblivious Investor, where he explains how exciting things like 401k rollovers and tax brackets work. Previously at GRS, Piper wrote about earning extra income ...Read More »

Reader Story: Saving for Retirement with More Than Mutual Funds

{ Posted on Oct 16 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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Categories : Advanced, All, Get Rich Slowly, Investing, Reader Stories, Retirement, Uncategorized
This guest post from Randy is part of the “reader stories” feature at Get Rich Slowly. Some stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success — or failure. These stories feature folks from ...Read More »

Remember to Value Your Time

{ Posted on Oct 07 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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I can’t believe that Get Rich Slowly is going to link to two different xkcd comics within a single month, but it’s true. Genevieve dropped a line to point out this recent gem about one of the problems with penny ...Read More »

An Introduction to Arbitrage: Using Craigslist to Make a Living

{ Posted on Aug 17 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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Categories : Advanced, All, Entrepreneurship, Get Rich Slowly, Uncategorized
On Saturday, I drove from Portland to Eugene to meet Jacob from Early Retirement Extreme. He’s on a mini road trip from the Bay Area, scouting Oregon for a place to live. Along with a few other ERE readers, I ...Read More »

Extreme Early Retirement in Practice: How Two People Did It

{ Posted on Aug 11 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He also has a blog, Twittering thing, and other things that ...Read More »

How to Spend Your Money

{ Posted on Mar 15 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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Categories : Advanced, All, Choices, Consumerism, Frugality, Get Rich Slowly, Uncategorized
Yesterday, as I was otherwise occupied (I spent five hours writing a post about programmable thermostats, a post nobody will even like!), the conversation on Donna Freedman’s article got a little cranky. Donna wrote about pinching pennies on some things ...Read More »

You Can Have It All (Just Not All At Once)

{ Posted on Mar 14 2011 by Donna Freedman }
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Categories : Advanced, All, Basics, Choices, Get Rich Slowly, Uncategorized
This post is from new GRS staff writer Donna Freedman. Donna writes the Living With Less personal finance column for MSN Money, and writes about frugality and intentional living at Surviving And Thriving. Like J.D., Donna has been traveling lately ...Read More »

The Time Value of Money (or Why 25 Years of Cable TV Doesn’t Cost as Much as You Think)

{ Posted on Feb 15 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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This guest post is from Stephen Popick, a government economist and founder of Coffeecents.org, a personal finance program for young adults. Popick is the long-time administrator of the Get Rich Slowly discussion forums. He loves coffee, even if his habit ...Read More »