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Podcast #173 — It’s Spending That Makes You Rich!

Published in November 4th, 2009
Posted by Rob in Money Management, Podcasts
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I’ve posted Podcast #173 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called It’s Spending That Makes You Rich!
You don’t get rich sitting in a room counting your money. You need to do stuff. And that means spending money. Saving is really just a revved-up approach to spending.

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Podcast #166 — The New Luxuries

Published in October 19th, 2009
Posted by Rob in Money Management, Passion Saving, Podcasts
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I’ve posted Podcast #166 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called The New Luxuries.
What do you get for the man or woman who has everything. Free time! Soul-Satisfying work!

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Podcast #150 — Follow the Money and You’ll Love What You Do

Published in September 3rd, 2009
Posted by Rob in Career Change, Money Management, Passion Saving, Podcasts
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I’ve posted Podcast #150 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called Follow the Money and You’ll Love What You Do.
There’s truth in the idea that, if you do what you love, the money will follow. But it’s only a partial truth.

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“The Reason Why This Strategy Works Is Precisely Because It Is Mindless”

Published in July 7th, 2009
Posted by Rob in Money Management, Passion Saving
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I recently wrote a Guest Blog Entry for the Digerati blog entitled Save Your Money By Paying Yourself Last.
Juicy Excerpt: Paying Yourself First is mindless saving. But I don’t mean that as a dig. The reason why this strategy works is precisely because it is mindless. The idea is to save a specified percentage of your [...]

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“I Like Rob’s Fresh Views and Tips on the Subject of Saving”

Published in June 30th, 2009
Posted by Rob in Community, Money Management, Passion Saving, Rob Bennett
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The Digerati Life blog recently ran a blog entry examining the unconventional money saving tips explored in my recent interview with ABC News Now. It’s called Money Saving Advice from an Expert Money Saver.
Juicy Excerpt: I like Rob’s fresh views and tips on the subject of saving money…. The “magic” here is that by using this rule, you’ll [...]

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“Passion Saving Seems to Advise
That You Can Never Have Enough”

Published in November 20th, 2008
Posted by Rob in Community, Money Management, Passion Saving, Rob Bennett
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The Richer by the Day blog recently posted a review of my book Passion Saving: The Path to Plentiful Free Time and Soul-Satisfying Work.
It’s good stuff. It’s clear that the blog author spent a good bit of time going though the entire book and thinking through a number of the issues raised.
Juicy Excerpt: While both Passion [...]

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“Money Management Isn’t Just About Knowing the Math — It’s About Knowing Yourself”

Published in November 18th, 2008
Posted by Rob in Money Management, Passion Saving, The New Luxuries
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A recent blog entry at the Get Rich Slowly blog examined the article in the “Upsizing” section of the site entitled Ten Unconventional Money Saving Tips.
Juicy Excerpt: Money management isn’t just about knowing the math. It’s mostly about knowing yourself. It’s…about learning to see money in new ways…. These tips are excellent examples. While some of [...]

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Why Do the Same People Who Applaud
Bull Markets Disdain Credit-Card Debt?

Published in July 10th, 2008
Posted by Rob in Goons, Money Management
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You hear these guys all the time. They can be highly judgmental.
“Dickens was wrong. These people with their credit-card debt should be put in prison. Thank you, God, for making me so much better than them.” That sort of thing.
Then the subject of bull markets comes up. They’re doing a happy dance. They’re rolling the [...]

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The Confession Box

Published in August 16th, 2006
Posted by Rob in Money Management
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I am a Catholic. That means that I pay regular visits to the confession box.
My guess is that those of other faiths do similar sorts of things. I know that people in 12-step programs occasionally “take a fearless moral inventory.” It sounds like it is something along the lines of a whole bunch of trips [...]

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The Naked Budget

Published in March 8th, 2006
Posted by Rob in Budgets, Money Management
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My wife and I (and our two boys) visited friends on Saturday afternoon. They’ve read my book and at one point the observation was put forward that it must feel strange to have the details of our financial lives on public display (I list the amounts assigned to each of our spending categories in the [...]

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