This is the eleventh of twelve parts of a “book club” reading and discussion of Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover , where this book on debt reduction is teased apart and looked at in detail. This entry covers the twelfth chapter, finishing on page 218. The final entry,…

I received a long and thoughtful email recently from a reader who had been following The Simple Dollar for a long time. From a very well-meaning perspective, this reader outlined in detail their feelings on several posts I had written recently, outlining how they were simply out of bounds…

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, as well as the five best posts from two…

This is the tenth of twelve parts of a “book club” reading and discussion of Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover , where this book on debt reduction is teased apart and looked at in detail. This entry covers the eleventh chapter, finishing on page 202. The next entry,…

This is the ninth of twelve parts of a “book club” reading and discussion of Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover , where this book on debt reduction is teased apart and looked at in detail. This entry covers the tenth chapter, finishing on page 182. The next entry,…

Mary’s True Confessions: This morning I woke up with the sole intention of wrapping my mind around the new HERA/RegZ requirements that go into effect this Thursday, July 30th (better late than never right!).  I dedicated time to absorb multiple lenders interpretations and their plans for implementation of this process by reading…

This blog post is a continuation of a previous post regarding my quest to reach a minimum of 500 leads for the month of August. To Go Fishing You Need Bait If you want to receive a lot of home buyer leads you need the bait that will attract…

Mary’s True Confessions:  There’s a game we play each week at my Rotary Club meeting called “Happy Dollar, Crappy Dollar”. The point of the game is to donate a dollar for each Happy or Crappy thing that happened to you over the past week.  I have to tell you,…

Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance topics and many other things. Got a question? Ask it in the comments. You might also enjoy the archive of earlier reader mailbags .…

This is the sixth of twelve parts of a “book club” reading and discussion of Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover , where this book on debt reduction is teased apart and looked at in detail. This entry covers the seventh chapter, finishing on page 132. The next entry,…