I’m going on vacation for a couple of weeks, but I thought that I’d leave you with at least one article while I’m away. If you like it, please leave a comment, because I have a related article that I scheduled to follow it up.
I haven’t found many new personal finance websites I love in the last decade. I’m probably overlooking a couple, but the truth is that I don’t read as much personal finance as I used to. I’m in a place where the article has to be a very specific topic that can also be very applicable to me. The days are gone when I’m interested in another 2% cash back credit card or 29 lazy money hacks.
However, I recently found a site that I want to share: Get Rich Slick. He doesn’t know that I’m writing this post and there’s no advertisement involved.
If that site sounds familiar, he started it around 2006 when I started Lazy Man and Money. I even still have some articles where I talked about his site that still have broken links. In fact, in one of his more recent articles, he brings back the debate we had nearly 20 years ago: Spend Less or Earn More? writing specifically:
I wish so many of the personal finance bloggers that I followed wouldn’t have sold out or quit because I’d love to see what their philosophy is now, decades later.
Like many bloggers from that era, he stopped blogging for a number of years. He recently revived the site, and it’s fantastic. Each article is fresh and well-designed. It reminds me a little of my Kid Wealth website in that there’s no obvious way it makes money. In fact, I can’t figure out if there is any way at all that he can make money.
Why is he back to blogging? He’s made his millions, and he’s in a comfortable place. I presume he’s dialed back his work and doing this because he finds it fun.
I’ll start with a few articles, but you should explore everything.
1. Retirement Planning: Step 5 – Putting It All Together
This is step five of a series, and it’s a little unclear, but the first four steps are linked to other articles. This is a good start for a lot of retirement planning.
2. What’s Your Plan For Inflation
I have never specifically planned for inflation. I guess my plan was to create cash flow through various income streams. It turns out that’s a plan for inflation. We have equities and rental properties. My wife is getting a military pension. I can dog-board and blog for a long time (I think). At the same time, we’ll be mortgage-free at 50 (including the rental properties). We have solar panels that cover most of our electricity use.
Rich Slick has a ten-step plan, and I have to say that they are pretty good options.
I like that he’s writing about his health, which becomes more important as you age. These new weight loss medicines seem incredible. They are expensive, but I think the costs are worth the benefits for many. There’s a real financial aspect to the article.
Final Thoughts
I drafted another few thousand words on one of his other articles. I realized it was long enough to stand alone as one of my own.
I was also going to touch on his unique website design, but I had already intended to write an article on that topic. It would be better to just reference it in that article.
Give Get Rich Slick and let me know what you think. He doesn’t seem to allow comments on his site, so I guess you won’t be able to leave a comment for him. I tried to leave a comment. It required registering for the website, which I did. I then left a fairly extensive comment, but it hasn’t been approved yet.
He’s recently been commenting here, though, so hopefully, he will see this article and post some of his own thoughts.