Fiscal Fizzle Guided Tour

Since Fiscal Fizzle’s launch in 2009, I’ve published hundreds of posts here and elsewhere. New readers are often overwhelmed or simply want a shortcut to the best of the best. Consider this your introduction to the site.

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Most Popular Posts

These have proven themselves over time to be the most popular posts on the blog:

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. Should You Buy a New or Used Car?
6. Should Kids in High School Work?
7. Get a Second Job and Quit Whining About Debt
8. How to Save Money for a House
9. Lower Cable Bill, More Services: My Story
10. Is Progressive Snapshot Worth It?
11. What Type of Budget Do You Use?
12. YNAB 3 Review: Give Me Back My Mvelopes
13. 7 Ways to Stop Eating Out from Killing Your Budget
14. Introducing Joyce House – The Coupon Diva
15. Writing an Awesome Personal Executive Summary
16. YNAB 3.0: Second Look
17. 4 Unexpected Expenses You Can Count On
18. Putting Together Your Personal Profit and Loss Table
19. Too Much of a Good Thing? Mortgage Prepayments
20. The Lifetime Cost of Owning a Dog

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.

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 & Interviews

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)
• 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 wrote for other websites on a regular basis, including Married Food, a culinary blog focused on married couples and families, and Untemplater.

Learn More

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

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