Why I Drive a 13-Year-Old Car ∞ Get Rich Slowly. This is a guest post from Joel Berry.
I recently had a talk with a friend about why I haven’t purchased a new car. He can’t understand why I still drive a 1995 Geo Prizm. I can afford to buy a new car, but I choose not to. The fact is, driving an older car saves me money! To prove my point, I ran some numbers. 30 Money Sites to Check Out in 2009 - Stepcase Lifehack. There are so many personal finance resources online that it’s hard to know where to start.
There are blogs, web applications, news sites and more. This list is a beginning — if you take a look at the sites included here, I know you’ll find something new for 2009. Some of these sites are brand new, some are the online presence of organizations that have been around for decades. But all of them look like they’ll have great things happening in the next year: these sites have the information that we all need (no matter our current financial situation) to get a great start on 2009. Blogs Get Rich Slowly: I never fail to be impressed by the posts on GRS — this blog started as a personal financial journey, but has grown into so much more.I Will Teach You To Be Rich: While most personal finance blogs focus on cutting costs, I Will Teach You… pushes readers to increase their income, instead.
Web Applications Resources Have any more websites you’d like to add? 18 Means for Living Below Your Means. Banking 2.0: Money Management Moves to The Cloud - ReadWriteWeb. There was a time when managing finances from your computer meant you had to use desktop software.
Today, that's no longer the case. There are now a number of applications that let you do your banking in the cloud, a trend we've dubbed "banking 2.0. " These sites aren't just simplified versions of our former desktop apps, either. Instead, they offer a number of features that take advantage of their "always on" status.
Forget downloading updates and typing in your transactions line-by-line, these new banking 2.0 sites can offer you better insight into your financial situation with no additional effort on your part beyond just logging in. We recently reviewed the state of online accounting, an area that also may be of interest to you if you're following the banking 2.0 trend. Mint Mint.com may be the most popular of the online banking apps today...or perhaps it's just the most hyped. Wesabe Wesabe takes what's normally a private activity - financial management - and makes it social. Geezeo Xero.