The Simple Dollar: The Best Personal Finance Blog Website on the Internet

Want specific, been-there-done-that advice about personal finance? Read The Simple Dollar for your daily dose of personal finance information and advice.

Articles and Comments

Trent, the author of The Simple Dollar, provides several new personal finance articles each day. They are often very practical, detailed, and inspirational. Through the use of great comments, the Simple Dollar has an interactive feel. For example, sometimes the author of the site, Trent, will post a question posed to him by a reader and respond to it. If the person who originally asked the question has any information to add to the comments discussion, that person can easily add a comment of his or her own.

Must Read Articles

"10 Books That Changed My Life"
The life-changing books run the gamut from Dale Carnegie's classic How to Win Friends and Influence People to the comparably recent Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin. Trent provides a diverse list of life-altering books, explaining the relevance of each book to his own life.

"25 Rules to Grow Rich By"
In "25 Rules to Grow Rich By", Trent, in his own words, is "analyzing and rewriting Money Magazine's 25 Rules to Grow Rich By as an exercise in examining the fundamentals behind some of the often-repeated statements on how to get ahead financially." No small feat!

"31 Days to Fix Your Finances"
This article series is a 31-day personal finance boot camp. Need to get your finances in shape quickly? Read through the entire 31 days and begin implementing the most applicable ideas to your life now.

Book Reviews

Each book review on The Simple Dollar dives right into the content of the book, providing an in-depth look into the book being reviewed. You will be amazed at the volume of reading material Trent plows through and reviews. The 'Buy or Don't Buy' sections at the conclusion of each review are indispensable.

Archives

The archived articles on The Simple Dollar are fun to read. You can become addicted trying to 'catch up.' A good place to start to get a sense of Trent's personal history and perspective is his series of articles called "Road to Financial Armageddon."