the simple dollar

Welcome to the 'the simple dollar' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'the simple dollar'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “the simple dollar”

• Merry Christmas from The Simple Dollar!

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  I hope that wherever you are and whatever you believe, good tidings are reaching you.Tune in tomorrow for our regularly scheduled programming.
  1 hour ago

• Is Netflix Worth It?

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Jenna writes in:My husband and I have been talking about signing up for Netflix, but we’re just not sure if it’s worth the extra monthly bill. Do you have any thoughts or pointers?Sarah and I have been on-again off-again Netflix users for most of the past decade. Our experience taught us a few [...]
  19 hours ago

• Managing Money When You’re Paid Infrequently

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Most of us are lucky. We’re paid every week, every other week, twice a month, or monthly, and this makes it easy to make ends meet each month. Some of us, however, live different lives. Freelancers, for example, are paid on a highly irregular schedule. Many graduate students receive only stipends [...]
  1 day ago

• Nine Simple Things to Do to Get Ready for Tax Season Right Now!

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  With Christmas comes the new year, and with the new year comes the painful cycle of preparing one’s taxes. I personally loathe tax time – to me, it’s an example of how the government simply doesn’t work very well at all. The tax code should not be tens of thousands of pages in length [...]
  1 day ago

• The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Holiday Thoughts Edition

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  For this week’s roundup, I went to several of my favorite personal finance sites and looked for useful Christmas-related posts to share with you all – and I found quite a few. Enjoy!Who and How Much to Tip During the Holidays The link to Emily Post’s suggestions in this article is quite useful, [...]
  2 days ago

• Spending Choices and Deeper Psychology

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Christmas has always been a challenging time of the year for me.During various years, within a week or two on either side of Christmas, my grandfather (who I cherished) died of cancer, a great uncle that I was very close to also died of cancer, and one of my cousins who was exactly the same [...]
  3 days ago

• How Much Is Fuel Efficiency Really Worth?

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Jim writes in with an interesting question:I’m in the market for a late model used car. I’ve narrowed my desired model down to a handful of choices, each with different gas mileage data. How can you really figure out how much fuel efficiency is worth in terms of dollars and cents? I [...]
  3 days ago

• Review: Crush It!

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a book of interest not directly connected to personal finance.I’m a big believer in following your passions, wherever they might take you. Part of doing that is preparation – saving money, making choices that pave the way – but another part is simply stepping up to ...
  4 days ago

• Fifteen Things to Have in Your Car This Winter

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  As Christmas approaches, my wife and I will be doing quite a bit of driving to visit various people for the holiday season. With winter conditions and three young children in the car with us, we’re going to be quite cautious about our trips.The first step in that journey is to make sure that [...]
  5 days ago

• The Simple Dollar Time Machine: December 19, 2009

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  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, two years ago this week, and three years ago this week. I call it [...]
  5 days ago

• Personal Finance 101: What Is Social Capital?

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Almost immediately after yesterday’s post about frugality and personal value went up, a reader asked me a question via Twitter:You wrote about “social capital” today. I’ve seen it a few times in other places but I don’t understand what it means.Social capital is an interesting concept that at first glance ...
  6 days ago

• Frugality and Your Sense of Value

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Earlier this week, I offered up a post detailing how I wrap Christmas gifts, utilizing brown paper and yarn. The response was mixed – some people didn’t like the aesthetics of the packaging, while others did (obviously, I’m in the latter camp, as I love the aesthetics of brown packages and yarn).Guess what? ...
  6 days ago

• The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Everyone’s done it. We start out with some fantastic goal in mind. I’m going to save up for a down payment in three years. I’m going to lose 50 pounds this year. I’m going to get all of my financial paperwork straight. I’m going to be frugal.I’m quite guilty of [...]
  1 week ago

• Guest Post: Living off Capital

  
  Wise Bread — Authority: 652
  By Philip Brewer I have a guest post up on The Simple Dollar that talks about Living Off Capital . People who come from wealthy families learn how to live off capital. The rules are taught along with all the other things they learn from their parents–how to dress, how to eat, how deal with bankers and trust ...
  1 week ago

• Living off Capital

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Philip Brewer is perhaps my favorite personal finance blogger. I thoroughly enjoy his writings and I’ve told him so in the past. A few months ago, I offered him a very rare guest post slot here at The Simple Dollar so I could share his writing more directly with you all. This [...]
  1 week ago

• Investing without Goals Is Like Golfing without a Putter…

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  … you might make some general progress, but when you finally come close to the target, it will be very difficult for you to hit that shot.Time and time again, people write to me and ask questions about how they should be investing their money. “I have $5,000 in savings – how should I [...]
  1 week ago

• The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: The Santa Question Edition

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Several readers have asked me whether or not my children believe in Santa Claus. The answer is simple: yes, they do, but without active encouragement from me.When children are young, their imaginations are in hyperdrive. They believe things to be real that aren’t real. My son, for example, had two imaginary ...
  1 week ago

• How I Wrap Gifts, Christmas and Otherwise

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Melanie writes in:Between the wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, tags, and other things, I’ve often spent $20-25 on just wrapping the gifts at Christmastime. This seems silly. How do you wrap presents? I’m sure you’ve got a less expensive way.To me, the purpose of wrapping paper is simply to disguise gifts from ...
  1 week ago

• Eight Tactics for Dealing with Professional Burnout

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 171
  Carlos writes in:I’ve been working at the same job for the last six years. I used to love it but lately I’ve started dreading going to work. I can’t really put my finger on a reason why, either. I’m considering quitting but I am very afraid to take that leap with the [...]
  1 week ago

• How Get Rich Slowly, The Simple Dollar, and IWillTeachYouToBeRich Rocked My World

  
  The Writers Coin — Authority: 467
  About three years ago, I was reading up on high-yield savings accounts and somehow wound up on a post on The Simple Dollar . I thought it was well written, informative, and had some charm to it. Who’s in charge here?, I wondered. I spent the next hour and a half digging through all the fantastic content on ...
  1 week ago

Comments about the simple dollar