Hall of Fame
Take a look at the very best of the best content we’ve found across the personal finance community! To get listed here, you have to beat out thousands of other pieces of work published during that month, and for those who do, we build you a personalized bobblehead and permanently enshrine you in our Hall of Fame. Congrats to all our winners, and thank you for helping the rest of us get smarter, happier, and richer š
Hall of FameĀ Ā |Ā Ā Pioneers
Lawrence Yeo
Enough is elusive because when you reach it, youāre no longer the person that once desired it. Once you occupy an entirely new world, that prior version of yourself is largely inaccessible.
Bridget Casey
The Unbudget: Giving Up Limits, Getting Back Your Life
In my ongoing effort to disrupt the overly-frugal and joyless personal finance community, Iāve come up with a new financial practice: unbudgeting.
Lynnette Khalfani-Cox
Why Your New Yearās Resolution Should Start on Thanksgiving Day
The period between Thanksgiving Day and New Yearās Eve is the six-weeks when people inflict the most personal, financial, and health damage on themselves…
Mrs. Flamingo
Why We Need Different Types of Financial Independence
Itās easy to dismiss new approaches like this. But let me tell you one thing: If you roll your eyes every time someone comes up with a new FIRE term, you are missing the point.
Jessica Byrne
How Financial Independence Let Me Leave An Abusive Relationship
Iām strong, Iām smart, and Iām capable. But the wolf still fooled me. This is why I believe that every person should have their own independent bank account.
Steve
If you fear youāll only be able to afford to retire when you are an ancient 57 years old, put that fear away. Happiness does not deteriorate over time, it gets better.
Dave
Front-Load Your Career To Achieve What Europeans Have
Most Europeans work fewer hours than we Americans and take way more vacation. The purpose of this post is to expose the ramifications of the differences in these work cultures.
Penny
Why Iām Not Hustling Like a Mother
This isnāt just about hustle porn and the people who buy into it. That Mom Hustle maternity shirt is symptomatic of something much greater: that this might be the very worst place in the world to take parental leave.
Joel O’Leary
Being a millionaire starts with learning how to make, save, and invest $1. Then repeat that process a million times.
Alan Donegan
The System Is Out to Get Youā¦
Companies thrive and make huge profits through putting you into debt. They donāt call it debt, they call it credit or financing. They make it sound sexy and as if they are helping you.
Kristen
āCould This Be a Heirloom Someday?ā
Whenever possible, before you buy something thatās supposed to last, join me in asking, āWill this be useful and treasured for years to come?ā
The Darwinian Doctor
The Amount of Cash Flow You Need to Change Your Life
I believe there are two levels of cash flow that can be life changing: $1 of cash flow, and cash flow equal to 20% of your annual income.
Purple
How Being A Nomad Helps Reinforce Whatās Actually Important
You cannot rely on outside factors to make you healthy or whole. You have to provide that for yourself. So here are the things that I turn to for comfort in my nomad travels.
Kevin Ha
Why I Donāt Have A FI Number Anymore
We donāt have to wait around to hit the magic FI number before we go do the things we want to do. Instead, we can figure out what we want now and create a life that lets us do that.
Andrea Joy
There is nothing in life I would want to be remembered more for than for impacting other peopleās lives with kindness, generosity, and spreading Joy. This young man has left that very legacy today touching lives just like mine.
Ben Carlson
Winnie the Pooh Translates Financial Jargon
This meme is perfect for finance because itās an industry that relies on jargon as a way to sell, confuse and signal higher than average intelligence.
Darcy
Financial Independence Milestones, Gamified
Letās be more intentional about noticing the financial independence milestones beyond its relation to how ādoneā you are. Get as excited about this middle time as I am!
Donna Freedman
Itās pretty simple: you shop mostly (or completely) based on whatās on sale that week⦠if itās not on sale, itās not in my cart.
Jacob Schroeder
The study found that participants who made purchases that most closely matched their personalities were more satisfied with life. This was true regardless of income, age and gender.
Occam
No matter how much changes in markets, no matter how many theories you choose to place confidence in, one thing will remain true regardless of approach. All else equal, lower fees will result in better performance.
Alyssa Davies
What If One Dollar Was Worth One Use?
Any time you buy a product, the value should always even out to $1.00 per usage. After all, why would we spend $150 on a pair of jeans if we werenāt planning on wearing them at least 150 times?
The Accumulator
Fighting the Financial Independence Demons
Hopefully your financial independence demons are infrequent guests, but we wouldnāt be human if they didnāt dine on our brains every so often. I hope this post gives you some fresh meat with which to distract them.
FI Heroes
After quitting our jobs and selling almost all of our possessions (including our house and one of our two cars) we moved over a thousand miles away to sunny Florida to live the Disney FIRE Lifestyle.
Gov Worker
I Tried to Get Rich Off Dogecoin and All I Got Was This Lousy Blog Post
I thought itād be fun to buy some Dogecoin and RIDE IT TO THE MOON! But in the end, it was harder for me to buy a Dogecoin than it was to actually buy a freakinā Shiba Inu.
Lillian Karabaic
What I Learned Making a Massive Spreadsheet of All My Clothes
I spent 13 hours on a Saturday cataloging the entirety of my wardrobe in a massive spreadsheet⦠By the end of the day, the spreadsheet had more than 4,000 cells and 28 tabs.
Craig
Strive To Wake Up And Do Nothing (With Your Finances)
You may not be a manager at your job, but you are the CEO of your household and your finances. So how can you take this management philosophy and apply it to your life?
Jarek
Steve works 250 business days and 8 hour days. He delivers income each month based on my holdings⦠Heās a cool guy, he does work for me and never asks for anything back.
Adriana
Boss Makes a Dollar, I Make a Dime, Thatās Why I Work for ME in My Free Time!
Do your best while you are working for your boss. But once your working hours finish, turn off from work. If you have energy and time to work, work for yourself.
Sarah & Laura
How We Removed 80% of Our Unhappiness in The Home
Just like itās important to have a regular decluttering practice for physical or digital items, every so often itās time to take stock of the āpebblesā in your life to see what can be removed.
Dr. Doom
The 2021 Early-Retirement Update
I retired on a sort of ālean-FIREā budget, confidently told the world Iād be just fine, and five years or so later, Iām a wreck, Iād lost my partner, and I had to make sizable changes.
Impersonal Finances
What Can Your Crappy Little Elf Do For You?
Do you have an activity that youāve been putting off? Writing? Investing? Getting in shape? Building a relationship? Whatever it is, the best advice is to just start doing it. And start doing it very poorly.
Accidentally Retired
How to Track, Graph, and Improve Your Happiness
Happiness is a choice. You have to choose to do the things that make you happy. You have to choose to be the person that you want to be. You have to manage your expectations.
Josh Brown
What I Learned From Ten Years of Cold Calling
The key to unlocking any door with a perfect stranger is to ask them about their favorite stocks. They will talk forever about the stuff they were smart enough to buy, and reveal a lot about themselves in the process.