2010 Workman Holiday Gift Guide Extravaganzaaaa!
The holidays are in full swing, but if you’re anything like me you’re probably still struggling to figure out what to get many of the people on your list. Well look no further, because Workman...
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich—Introduction to Week 1: Welcome to the Jungle...
It would seem that, when it comes to personal finance, I have an appetite for (self-)destruction. Three years after college graduation, my levels of anxiety about money are so high that I wake up...
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich—Week 1: Strong Father Figures and Credit Cards
It’s no secret that I love Tina Fey. My favorite chapter in her book Bossypants was devoted entirely to her father, Don. She writes, “My dad has visited me at work over the years, and I’ve noticed that...
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich—Week 2: Erin, Woman of Action and Purpose
Last week I introduced my plan to become financially literate (and financially zen) by following the 6-week program outlined in Ramit Sethi’s hip book I Will Teach You to Be Rich. In my introductory...
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich—Week 3: The Unbearable Lightness of Being...
I never thought it would be so simple and so painless to set up systems that enable me to automatically save and grow my money. Honestly, had I known that such an anxiety-free existence was within my...
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich—Week 4: In Which I Falter, But With Good Reason
It’s hard to believe I’ve already reached Week 4 of the six-week plan to financial independence laid out in Ramit Sethi’s I Will Teach You to Be Rich. This week, I was supposed to create a conscious...
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich—Week 4: Not a Roman Holiday
According to Catholic tradition, sometime between A.D. 98 and A.D. 117, St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, was ordered by Roman Emperor Trajan to suffer a gruesome death among the wild beasts in the...
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich—Week 5: Five Foot Nothin’, 100 and Nothin’…
…with barely a speck of athletic ability (true), but now my prowess in matters financial makes up for all that. I think Coach Devine says it best…...
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich—Week 5½: Another Failure to Launch (With More...
Ramit Sethi would kill me if he knew how my own dithering and futzing are preventing me from taking the first-place trophy in the Personal Finance Derby. That’s me in the back, not taking the lead....
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich–Week 6: The Heart of a Champion
I am a lot like Kerri Strug. Remember the 1996 Olympic Games, when gymnast Kerri had to perform a second vault on an injured ankle in order to clinch the U.S. gold? Remember the drama–how she limped to...
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