Personal Finance Links – Almost Married Edition

Next week at approximately this time I will be getting married.  After 42 years of being single this will be quite a change for me.  I didn’t get much done online this week and I didn’t do a lot to prepare for the wedding and reception either so I can’t use that as an excuse.  It was mainly just a case of being lazy and unorganized.  Anyway, here are a few posts that caught my eye this week.

Escaping the Rat Race from Invest it Wisely. This is a great roundup of posts about escaping the rat race. One of my posts was included even though I was too lazy to get around to submitting one.

5 Surprising Insights on Earning More Money from I Will Teach You to be Rich. This post made me think about several things. First, I don’t agree with his criticisms of frugality. Life doesn’t have to suck because you are frugal. And being frugal doesn’t mean you can’t work on earning more as well. If you have read “The Millionaire Next Door” then you know many millionaires are frugal as well. That being said there isn’t much more I can do on cutting back expenses and it is time to work on increasing my income. When he writes about people looking for new material rather instead of actually doing something I recognized myself. I need to stop spending so much time poring over blogs and forums looking for ways to make money and spend more time actually trying to make money. I will share my efforts and results at trying new ways to make money.

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