Financial Eyes & Ears

My credit sucks. There’s really no better way to say it but over the last 12 months, I’ve taken strides to improve it. This meant paying all of my bills on time, paying off a lot of student loan debt and settling with a few student loan creditors which had my loans in “collection”. As [...]

Your credit is an important part of your financial life. Making sure your credit is in tip-top shape should be one of your priorities. As you ponder the importance of credit, and how you can improve your situation, here are some posts from the past week to help you along: How an Email from Credit [...]

New vehicle sales are expected to go up by as much as 6 to 7 percent in 2012 according to Automotive News. This is largely due to a more stable economy and consumer demand that has been pent-up over several years. There are several good reasons to purchase a new vehicle in 2012. One of [...]

It would be fair to describe me as a contrarian investor. I advocate Valuation-Informed Indexing. Valuation-Informed Indexers go with high stock allocations when prices are low (which means most investors are not happy with stocks) and with low stock allocations when prices are high (which means that most investors love stocks). Still, I am not [...]

When times are tight, we all look for ways to pinch a few extra pennies. When all of the basic areas have been considered, here are a few extreme penny-pinching tips to help get you over a difficult financial hump. Use them permanently, and you’ll have additional funds for things besides bills. Like that family [...]

This post is from staff writer April Dykman. One of the tenets of personal finance is to pay yourself first. And one of the most sure-fire ways to make sure you do that is to automate your savings: setup your checking account to make an automatic deposit to your saving accounts. Automation has been incredibly [...]

One common request from new GRS readers is some sort of central location where they can find a list of introductory articles to guide their progress. This is a great idea, and I’m working on it. Some of the GRS elves are working on a “Guide to Money” that will provide some of this info, [...]

Like a hibernating bear, I feel like I’m waking from a long winter’s nap. For the past few months, I’ve been dormant, not just at Get Rich Slowly but at my other sites as well. I’ve had so much happening in my personal life that it’s been tough to find the mental energy to write [...]