Archives
(I'm doing some behind-the-scenes recategorizing of prior-year posts, so the lists below are still in-progress. You can also find posts by topic in the tag cloud in the sidebar.)
Personal Stories
Checkpoints on our financial journey.
- Working for a financial company during a financial crisis (… or not)
- I believe this qualifies as an emergency
- Less income, more savings
- To buy or to rent: failing to predict the future of housing
- The Conflict-Free Family Budget: Our Results
- Mortgages: knowing when to walk away
- Debt freedom, debt relief
- Redefining success; redesigning our lives
- Don’t buy drugs from a drugstore
- The choice between values and value
- Setting up the Great Cash Experiment
- Career advice for cats and foxes
- Two things I wish my teenaged self had known about college
- Spoons, decision fatigue, and a glimpse into poverty
- Our year of radical change
- ... and at Get Rich Slowly, Discovering (and challenging) your financial values
Easy Behavioral Economics
Psychology and economics, in plain language.
- Miswanting, and two strategies to counter it
- Salary negotiation: we’ve been doing it wrong
- The secret to the new iPhone’s popularity
- The credit card rewards system is gaming you
- To give great gifts, think like a behavioral economist
Timeless Tips
Good ideas without an expiration date.
- Eating cheaply and well: learn to be an improv cook
- Optimize your car insurance: strategies to protect yourself while saving money
- Car insurance definitions you need to know
- Comparison-shop for cheaper car insurance quotes
- Extended warranties: from sucker’s bet to outright scam
- Frugal grocery shopping basics
- Check infrequent habits for money leaks
- Shopping debacle; Craigslist rescue
- Quick and easy estimated income tax for freelancers
- Fillet or fish: picking the better bargain
- Gas mileage: we’re doing it wrong
- ... and at Get Rich Slowly, Furniture shopping secrets: how to tell superior from shoddy
Conflict-Free Family Budget
- The Conflict-Free Family Budget: Introduction
- The Conflict-Free Family Budget: Our Plan
- The Conflict-Free Family Budget: Our Results
- The Conflict-Free Family Budget: Your Turn
- Gasoline spending: the problem
Pocketmint by Date
- January 2014
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- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
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- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
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- November 2008
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- June 2008