Fiscal Fizzle Guided Tour

Because many of you are new readers of Fiscal Fizzle, I’ve put together this guided tour so you don’t feel like you’re missing out on anything. Since the site’s launch in 2009, I’ve published hundreds of posts on Fiscal Fizzle and other sites around the Web, so it can get a little overwhelming while trying to browse.

Let’s start with the posts that have proven themselves over time to be the most popular on this site:

Most Popular Posts

1. How to Sell Your Car on Craigslist
2. Would You Buy a Rental Car?
3. Buying a Car from Hertz Car Sales
4. Can You Make a Living Recycling 10 Cent Bottles and Cans?
5. Get a Second Job and Quit Whining About Debt
6. Should You Buy a New or Used Car?
7. Lower Cable Bill, More Services: My Story
8. Should Kids in High School Work?
9. YNAB 3 Review: Give Me Back My Mvelopes
10. Introducing Joyce House – The Coupon Diva
11. Writing an Awesome Personal Executive Summary
12. 4 Unexpected Expenses You Can Count On
13. 7 Ways to Stop Eating Out from Killing Your Budget
14. Too Much of a Good Thing? Mortgage Prepayments
15. 55 Ways to Simplify Your Finances
16. YNAB 3.0: Second Look
17. How to Save Money for a House
18. The Lifetime Cost of Owning a Dog
19. Being Good With Money When You’re Bad With Math
20. Pregnancy Expenses in the First Trimester

Browse the Archives

If you’re more inclined to scroll your way through the entire list of posts I’ve published, visit the complete archives.

Or, you can be more focused about your exploration and look at some of my most popular categories of posts:

• Budgeting
• Career
• Credit & Debt
• Family & Kids
• Financial Literacy
• Food
• Frugality
• Income
• Insurance
• Planning
• Psychology
• Savings
• Spending
• Tools

For those of you with specific needs, you may want to visit the resources page, which features guides such as how to buy a car or house, and specific banking and investing tools you can take advantage of.

Other Essentials

Of course, not all of the posts that I thought were important or provoked a lot of discussion made it to the most popular list. I consider all of these to be good reading in one way or another:

1. 7 Ways to Find Your Financial Heart
2. 15 Signs You’re in Financial Denial
3. 5 Important Tasks After a New Baby’s Birth
4. 5 Good Reasons Not to Save Money
5. 5 Financial Items We Tend to Procrastinate
6. Should Millionaires Apply for Unemployment?
7. 60 Reasons Why Personal Finance is So Damn Hard
8. Having the Courage to Improve Your Finances
9. The Benefits of Renting: A Surprisingly Long List
10. Pros and Cons of Long-Term Employment

Off the Site

For writing I’ve done off Fiscal Fizzle, visit the guest post page for a complete list. You might also be interested in some of these interviews done with me:

• On March 20, 2011, the K-Love radio network featured my tax-time tips in their Closer Look segment.
• Thrift Culture Now (April 22, 2011)
• One Money Design (November 5, 2009)
• The Debt Hawk Interview (July 27, 2009)
• Green Panda Treehouse (March 28, 2009)

Some of the more awesome mentions of my site are also listed here:

• Finding Financial Values (Get Rich Slowly; September 16, 2009): J.D. Roth reacted to my post about ways to find your financial heart, calling it “an excellent article” and comparing my analysis to the work of George Kinder. As a result, the post was also picked up by MSN’s Smart Spending blog.

I also write for other websites on a regular basis. Currently, that includes:

• Married Food, a culinary blog focused on married couples and families, and also features some familiar faces from the personal finance space.

Learn More

To find out more about the history of the blog and my story, please visit the About page.

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