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The Simple Dollar Morning Roundup: Baby Week Tuesday Edition 7comments

September 4, 2007 @ 7:30 am - Written by Trent
Categories: Morning Roundup
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With the very recent birth of my daughter, I won’t be around too much this week, so I prepared some morning roundups in advance that list some of my personal favorite articles from various other personal finance sites. Each day, I’ll feature four of them. Enjoy!

Top 5 Hacks For Intelligent Investors I’ve actually done two of these while tracking a couple of individual stocks. (@ fat pitch financials)

Dave Ramsey Is Bad At Math This article shows how Dave Ramsey’s plan is not mathematically optimal for paying off debt. This is completely true - but it misses out on the psychology factor. Dave speaks to people who are deeply in debt, and deep levels of consumer debt are more of a psychological problem. (@ five cent nickel)

24 Signs That You Could Be In Financial Trouble This is a really, really interesting series of articles. If you have this sense that you might be in financial trouble, it’s all well worth reading. (@ generation x finance)

Why They Want You To Be Broke! This is one of my favorite personal finance posts of all time, anywhere. (@ finance is personal)

The Simple Dollar Retro: The Value of Personal Appearance This is why I think it’s financially savvy to take a shower.

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Thanks for the link, and I agree that my article misses out on the psychology factor. In fact, I wrote a followup called “Dave Ramsey is Good at Psychology,” which is linked from the original.

fivecentnickel.com @ 7:35 am September 4th, 2007 (comment #1)

Mazel tov!

guinness416 @ 8:56 am September 4th, 2007 (comment #2)

YAY! Congrats, Trent. Best wishes to your growing family!

Lisa @ 9:23 am September 4th, 2007 (comment #3)

Congratulations Trent on the arrival of your new baby. We wish you and your family great health and superb well being.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance

FIRE Finance @ 9:36 am September 4th, 2007 (comment #4)

Congrats on your new daughter!

Amanda @ 12:09 pm September 4th, 2007 (comment #5)

Congrats again on the baby trent! I hope she is healthy and alive! I bet you’ve already opened a 529 plan or an ESA for her!

Matthew Paulson @ 12:15 pm September 4th, 2007 (comment #6)

Congratulations on the birth of your new daughter. I hope my stock tracking hacks continue to come in handy. I have learned a few more tricks since I wrote that article on Fat Pitch Financials. I’ll have to post my new finds soon.

George @ 9:43 pm September 4th, 2007 (comment #7)

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