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Yard Sale Ethics: Is the Sticker Price the End of the Story?

{ Posted on Sep 01 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Getting Started, Learning, The Simple Dollar
In my recent post about cultivating your own knowledge for fun and profit, I mentioned that you should hit yard sales, consignment shops, estate sales, and so forth as a way to put your knowledge to work for you and ...Read More »

The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Making It All Work Edition

{ Posted on Sep 01 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Learning, Morning Roundup, The Simple Dollar
After the universal positive response to my idea of doing a chapter-by-chapter discussion of David Allen’s Making It All Work, I’ve decided to go ahead with it. Expect it to begin in a few weeks (I usually like to ...Read More »

Conservative or Aggressive: How Does a New Investor Know What to Do?

{ Posted on Aug 31 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Getting Started, Investing, Learning, The Simple Dollar
If you’ve read the reader mailbags for a while, you’ve noticed that I often get messages from people who have worked their way into a good financial place and now have some money to invest, often for the first time ...Read More »

Finding the Rhythm

{ Posted on Aug 31 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Getting Started, Learning, The Simple Dollar
One of the biggest things that’s changed in my life since my financial turnaround and subsequent career changes is that I’m constantly involved in a lot more self-evaluation than I used to be. I’m constantly looking at how I ...Read More »

What’s Necessary? What’s Not Necessary?

{ Posted on Aug 30 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Getting Started, Learning, The Simple Dollar
Naomi is trying to get a good picture of her actual spending and is using a very good process to get there. She’s run into a bit of a snag, though. I have reached a month of collecting receipts and ...Read More »

Reader Mailbag: Soccer Season and Preschool

{ Posted on Aug 30 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Learning, Reader Mailbag, The Simple Dollar
What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question. 1. Adding partner to credit cards 2. Partners and rentals 3. Healthy use ...Read More »

Review: 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More

{ Posted on Aug 29 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Books, Learning, The Simple Dollar
Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest. One of the most interesting parts of being a popular internet writer that reviews a lot of books is that, over time, I’ve wound up on ...Read More »

Cultivating Domain Knowledge and Hobbies for Fun and Profit

{ Posted on Aug 28 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Getting Started, Learning, The Simple Dollar
When I was sixteen, I bought a cigar box full of 1960s baseball cards for $5 from someone who was cleaning out their mother’s attic. I sold one single card in the box – a 1965 Topps Mickey Mantle ...Read More »

I Can’t Find a Job in This Economy!

{ Posted on Aug 28 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Careers, Learning, The Simple Dollar
I get a lot of emails from people with the above statement, usually followed by some sort of plea for help. I have a lot of sympathy for their situation. I can’t even imagine how painful it would ...Read More »

The Simple Dollar Time Machine: August 28, 2010

{ Posted on Aug 28 2010 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Learning, The Simple Dollar, Time Machine
Many newer readers of The Simple Dollar haven’t been exposed to the hundreds of great articles in the archives of the site, so this is a weekly series that highlights the five best posts from one year ago this week, ...Read More »
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