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Free Starter Personal Finance Book: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly

William Bernstein, author of several books on investing, has recently released a short book targeted at giving young folks a primer on saving for retirement. The title is If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly (Amazon link for the … [Read the rest]

Free eBooks on Real Estate Investing and Renting Out Your House

BiggerPockets.com is a popular discussion forum for real estate investors. Founder Joshua Dorkin and Senior Editor Brandon Turner have also written a couple of books about the subject. For a limited time, they are free in Amazon Kindle format. … [Read the rest]

American Express AmEx Everyday and Amex Everyday Preferred Credit Card Review

American Express has just introduced two new rewards credit cards called the AmEx Everyday and AmEx Everyday Preferred. Note that these are NOT the same as the Blue Cash Everyday and Blue Cash Preferred cards. They are worth a look as they offer a … [Read the rest]

Frugal Mattress Shopping Tips and Our Experiences

Shopping for a new mattress bed is confusing and annoying. Sadly, that's exactly how it was designed to be. This Slate article talks about this maddening process and offers a few tips: Mattress makers intentionally hinder comparison shopping … [Read the rest]

How To Never Retire: Cash Out Your 401(k) When Leaving a Job

I mentioned Charlie Munger and his principle of inversion in a recent book review. Sometimes the best solution to a problem comes by approaching it backwards. You can learn more about it by reading the transcript from Mungers' 2007 USC Law School … [Read the rest]

Amazon Mom 3-Month Trial + 50% off Diapers

Amazon Mom is a program that has some nice perks for parents (open to anyone... mom, dad, grandparent, or caretaker). The main draw is the 20% off diapers & wipes (5% Subscribe & Save discount + 15% Amazon Mom discount) and the fast shipping. If … [Read the rest]

Do We Regret Paying Off Our Mortgage? One Year Update

It has been a year since we paid off our mortgage early. I already discussed our reasons for doing so in that post, so I won't repeat them here. I also wrote a really long post on every single facet I could think of in the Pay Off Mortgage Early … [Read the rest]

Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction Doesn’t Help Homeownership?

The mortgage interest tax deduction primarily helps the wealthy buy bigger houses rather than increase homeownership rates, according to a new study quoted by this WSJ article. The study found that such tax benefits have help increase the size of … [Read the rest]

The Up Side of Down: A Book About Failure

Failure. Or as Megan McArdle puts it - "deep, soul-crushing periods of misery following stupid mistakes that kept me awake until the small hours of the morning in a fog of anxiety and regret." Yup, I've been there. I was afraid that the new … [Read the rest]

The Power of Compound Interest Shown in a Single Chart

It's not just how much you save, it's when you save that matters. The best time to start is now. This is the power of compounding returns, which this single chart will help you visualize: Susan (grey) invests $5,000 per year from age 25 … [Read the rest]

American Airlines Free Bonus Miles – Facebook Required

American Airlines has a new AAdvantage Passport Challenge where you can earn free bonus miles for various small activities: Play trivia and other games to earn up to 700 miles Share and complete social actions to earn up to 350 miles Take … [Read the rest]

LearnVest 50/30/20 Budgeting Pie Chart

LearnVest is (yet another) online financial advisor, but they are more focused on money management and life planning than nitpicking asset allocation details. Founder Alexis Von Tobel's book Financially Fearless is on my (long) reading list, and … [Read the rest]