Rich Snail » Personal Finance http://richsnail.com/blog Expatriation in Malaysia & South East Asia Fri, 18 May 2012 13:30:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Personal Finance Pages in AllTop & Mahalo http://richsnail.com/blog/personal-finance-pages-in-alltop-mahalo?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=personal-finance-pages-in-alltop-mahalo http://richsnail.com/blog/personal-finance-pages-in-alltop-mahalo#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:30:20 +0000 Jacques http://richsnail.com/blog/?p=78 Guy Kawasaki just launched a news aggregation sites called AllTop. Essentially, it displays all the news on a specific topic, aggregated from top publications and blogs. As Guy put it, it is close to an “online magazine rack”. They have a good personal finance category, and many renowned PF blogs are listed there. I like the concept, but still prefer to use an RSS aggregator. I see AllTop as a good way to browse through a topic, and select the read you will add in your Google Reader.

Another great read – and potential bookmark – is the “How to save money” page from Mahalo. The page does a great job at introducing the subject, and breaking it down in easy to chew pieces. It really be a great tool to get started, or find new ways, to save money.

Good discovery :-)

]]> http://richsnail.com/blog/personal-finance-pages-in-alltop-mahalo/feed 0 Personal Finance Basics in 7 Days http://richsnail.com/blog/personal-finance-basics-in-7-days?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=personal-finance-basics-in-7-days http://richsnail.com/blog/personal-finance-basics-in-7-days#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:41:02 +0000 Jacques http://richsnail.com/blog/?p=41 One of my friends recently decided to tackle one of his New Year’s resolutions: get his finances in better shape. He asked for my help, and I am looking forward to helping him the best I can. I started thinking on how to best help him over the week-end. He could of course read the 31 Days To Fix Your Finances series from the The Simple Dollar, or the The Wealthy Barber book; both are great resources and I highly recommend them. But I think a simpler and easier-to-grasp approach will help him a lot more in the beginning. Therefore, preparing for our first “financial-review” tonight, I started laying down a few basics.

The Big Picture

Those basics will help us draw a simple and easy-to-grasp big picture. They will guide us in defining what his goals are, what to work on, and and how to build sound financial foundations. My belief is that money management is not only about dollars and cents; it relates to one’s life goals and how money relates to them. Therefore we need to review where he wants to go and how to reach there.

Killing Two Birds With One Stone

I will post those rudiments over the next week in a series of posts named “The Basics of Personal Finance in 7 Days”. I will write a post per day, each describing a single step. As soon as a post will be live, I will add links to it here; so if you want to save them and have simple access to all of them, just bookmark this post.

Day 1: Assess the situation – Open your eyes
Day 2: Define and refine your goals – Where to go
Day 3: Track your spending – Where did it disappear to?
Day 4: Set up a budget – Your Treasure Map
Day 5: Get out of Debt – Fight for independence
Day 6: Emergency Fund & Insurance – Safety First
Day 7: Invest – House, College, Retirement, etc.

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