How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously*

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1. MzNov 2015
   creditors call ... on a schedule I personally would consider "aggressive".

   Let me suggest you go to a library and pick up a copy of "How to get out of debt, stay out of debt, and live prosperously." Also "How to survive without a salary" is an excellent book.

   You might also enjoy reading this:

   http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/02/money-and-ma...

   Best of luck.

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2. jpgjbMay 2013
   Here are some of my personal favorites:

   1) The Millionaire Next Door 2) The Intelligent Investor (must read!) 3) How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously 4) Your Money or Your Life 5) I Will Teach You to Be Rich (relevant to you at your age) 6) Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes, and How to Correct Them (short and sweet) 7) The Rational Optimist (not specifically about personal finance but a great read about behavior)

   Hope this helps, and if you ever want to discuss personal finance in more detail feel free to reach out, love helping!

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3. thephyberJun 2017
   I don't know if I have any useful feedback for the linked sites.

   notanothermoneyblog:

   I tend to be turned off of traditional blog layouts because of navigational structure. As a reader, I don't care about when an article is written, I care about matching my reading interests quickly with what is available on your site (perusing the titles / tags / categories). If there is a config to toggle away the year-month navigation style, I would prefer that. YMMV

   sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide:

   The site seems niche and, as you have mentioned in other posts, there is a stigma against homelessness. Non-homeless (awkward description, I know) readers might feel immediately turned off before reading anything. You might be able to convey the same type of message by describing it as "scraping by", although this may be counterproductive.

   I would suggest you might try to review your previously-written articles and see if you can make them more reader-friendly. Currently, they seem a little writer-friendly and not very optimized for the reader. Having a TL;DR at the top might keep interest. Eg. the "gift card" article #2 was interesting because it mentions the CA state law that gives consumers the right to cash out sub-$10 balances. That is very useful for me, as a California consumer and I probably would not have thought I would find a nugget on a site and wouldn't have found it if I wasn't trying to review your site. Having the nugget of wisdom in the article title (eg. "Gift cards can be cashed by state law") rather than a less-specific "Cash for Gift Cards -- Addendum"

   Small bug: The link from the /p/money.html page to "Starbuck's and Domino's Rewards and Gift Cards" is broken (there is a stray "http:/" at the beginning).

   If you can, try to get an Amazon Affiliate account and add Amazon affiliate links when you describe / review books like "Book recommendation: How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously". It might not be useful short-term as they won't cut checks for amounts smaller than ~$25, but they pay 4+% on lots of products.

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4. MzJan 2010
   You might consider picking up a few books (possibly used or from the library) with titles like "How to live without a salary" by Charles Long or "The Tightwad Gazette" series by Amy Dacyczyn or "How to get out of debt, stay out of debt, and live prosperously" (I don't recall the author). I read stuff like that years ago and was a homemaker for many years when most folks in America today think a family cannot live on one income. I had to get divorced to really escape the rat race of conventional life. But in some sense I have been laying the groundwork for my current lifestyle for decades.

   Good luck.

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