Spills Spotlight: Volume 23

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Welcome to this month’s Spills Spotlight! This series consists of a roundup of my favorite personal finance blog posts from around the web, publishing on the last day of each month. If you missed the last Spotlight, you can check it out here.

Throughout the month I read dozens of blog posts and include my favorites here. Spills Spotlight is an opportunity for me to share my favorite posts with my readers, and showcase the work of my fellow bloggers within the personal finance blogging community. I hope you enjoy this series, and feel free to comment with suggestions on which posts should be included in upcoming months!

Climbing the Wealth Ladder

by Of Dollars and Data

“The most important thing I learned from thinking about all of this is that it takes a giant step in wealth to fundamentally alter how we live our lives. And the steps only get larger as we go higher up the wealth scale.”

Marketers Do Not Want You to Be Content

by The Frugal Girl

“The job of a marketer is to help you see where your life is lacking so that they can then sell you something to fix that lack. And if something is not lacking, a good marketer will make up a lack and create a need for a product where before there was none.”

Trading Time

by Humble Dollar

“Too often, we—and that includes me—persevere in doing things that make us unhappy today, so later we can do things that make us happy. But perhaps you could avoid the unhappiness by redistributing your retirement years by, say, switching careers, or employers, or your current role at the office.”

These 10 Revelations Helped Me Rethink My Finances in my 20s

by The Woke Salaryman

“My humble opinion is that when you’re young, how much money you have in your bank account doesn’t matter as much as the ways you think about money.”

Where Are You on the Financial Independence + Retirement Matrix

by Minafi

Awesome matrix that shows the progress of your personal journey towards FIRE, using savings rate and savings multiples.

Working from Home Tips

by Keeping Up with the Bulls

“Employees and employers must adjust the use of technology, process and culture to enable remote teams to be successful. You need to learn how to communicate with your manager and team virtually, set boundaries at home and ensure your company offers the right tools to be successful working remotely.”

Why Outbreaks Like Coronavirus Spread Exponentially, and How to “Flatten the Curve”

by The Washington Post

Very important information and simulations showing the impact that “social distancing” can have on reducing the spread of the coronavirus.

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