The Best of Fiscal Fizzle
There are so many ways to explore a site’s content, and after more than a year of writing, that content is getting a bit overwhelming. To make my best writing easier to find, I’ve put together this guide.
Here, you’ll find my best writing organized in a few different ways:
Most Viewed
The number of views a particular post receives is a popular way of determining the interest in that post, although the stats can be skewed by extraordinarily good links from big blogs, or an unusually sweet spot in Google’s algorithms. Whatever the case may be for the amount of traffic, here are the posts that got the most “eyeballs” on Fiscal Fizzle, separated by year published.
The most viewed posts of 2009 were:
- 4 Unexpected Expenses You Can Count On
- 55 Ways to Simplify Your Finances
- Writing an Awesome Personal Executive Summary
- 7 Ways to Stop Eating Out From Killing Your Budget
- 7 Ways to Find Your Financial Heart
- The Lifetime Cost of Owning a Dog
- Identifying Needs vs. Wants in Your Budget
- Being Good With Money When You’re Bad With Math
- 11 Ways to Stay Positive in a Bad Economy
- 6 Financial Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
The most viewed posts in 2010 (so far) are:
- How to Sell Your Car on Craigslist
- Get a Second Job and Quit Whining About Debt
- Can You Make a Living Recycling 10 Cent Bottles & Cans?
- Would You Buy a Rental Car?
- Buying a Car from Hertz Rent2Buy
- YNAB 3 Review: Give Me Back My Mvelopes
- Should You Buy a New or Used Car?
- Lower Cable Bill, More Services: How I Did It
- Should Kids in High School Work?
The Essentials
These particular posts made the blog what it is today. They were either highly influential, personally inspiring, widely spread, and/or reflect my personal philosophy and message in some way. If you want to understand the way I think about money, they are all fundamental reading:
- Why Reading Personal Finance Blogs is Good For You
- 7 Ways to Find Your Financial Heart
- Saving More vs. Insuring More
- 55 Ways to Simplify Your Finances
- Extremes in Personal Finance and The Conventional Approach
- Ten Reasons Why Budgets Fail
- It’s What You Do, Not What You Say
- 4 Unexpected Expenses You Can Count On
- 5 Ways to Fight Financial Stagnation
- Why I Use An Envelope Budget
- Why Freelancing Benefits Your Day Job
- The 7 Habits of Personal Finance: Part I and Part II
- The High Cost of Financial Clutter
- 15 Signs You’re In Financial Denial
- How Personal is Personal Finance?
Threads
I write about a wide variety of topics on Fiscal Fizzle, but there are threads that connect posts in many different ways. You can explore these threads using special interest pages that I’ve set up:
Best Discussions
A high number of comments usually indicates a lively discussion as a result of the post or other comments. Here are the hottest debates on the blog:
- There’s No Such Thing as Passive Income
- Should Kids in High School Work?
- Get a Second Job and Quit Whining About Debt
- 6 Important Tasks After a New Baby’s Birth
- A Personal Finance Reading List
- 55 Ways to Simplify Your Finances
- Reader Weigh In: Is It Better for One or Both Parents to Work?
- 7 Ways to Stop Eating Out From Killing Your Budget
Most Searched For
The posts with the highest search traffic can point to areas of interest for the general public, where this blog fills a role in answering those burning questions or concerns. The posts displayed most often to Googlers are:
- The Lifetime Cost of Owning a Dog
- 7 Ways to Stop Eating Out From Killing Your Budget
- Identifying Needs vs. Wants in Your Budget
- Mvelopes: Review of Free Trial
- 11 Ways to Stay Positive in a Bad Economy
- 4 Unexpected Expenses You Can Count On
- Recession Buster: A Collection of Positive Quotations
- How to Set Up Your First Successful Budget
- More Motivational Quotes for a Bad Economy
- Alternative Forms of Transportation
Curious about the top keywords that sent people here? They were: Fiscal Fizzle, Mvelopes, how to stop eating out, Mvelopes review, needs vs wants, unexpected expenses, bad economy quotes, forms of transportation, how to set up a budget, and layoff checklist.
Best Elsewhere
Of course, Fiscal Fizzle is not the only home for my writing. I’ve done quite a bit of work on other sites as well. To round out the page, I’ve included links to my most popular posts on other sites, based on buzz and the number of comments (or traffic stats, where available):
Still Can’t Find Something to Read?
There’s always the old-fashioned way to get what you want: head to the Archives page and explore away, or check out some of the places I’ve been mentioned or featured!