Spills Spotlight: Volume 1
A roundup of my favorite personal finance blog posts from around the web. This series highlights the best work being published from the personal finance blogging community.
Spills Spot - Helping Others Win With Money
Happy Blogiversary! Spills Spot Turns Two
Recapping my second year of blogging, with lessons learned, how my vision has grown, and the necessity of the personal finance blogging community.
7 Key Takeaways from The Intelligent Asset Allocator
Recapping The Intelligent Asset Allocator including how to determine your asset allocation between stock and bonds along with rebalancing, diversification, and correlation.
Build Good Habits, Don’t Rely on Willpower
Focus on building good habits rather than relying on willpower to achieve your goals. Break goals down into actionable steps, set up systems, and practice consistency.
Reviewing Our 2017 Spending
A detailed look at everything we spent in 2017 and how that spending compared to 2016. Highlighting our wins and areas of improvement for the upcoming year.
Recapping John Bogle’s Common Sense on Mutual Funds
A recap of my key takeaways from Vanguard founder John Bogle's book, "Common Sense on Mutual Funds." Key lessons include index funds investing, simplicity, risk vs return, and keeping costs low.
End of Year Review & 2018 Goals
Recapping my achievements in 2017 and laying out my goals for 2018 in personal finance, travel, blogging, and daily habits.
Top 10 Posts of 2017
Looking back at the top 10 posts for Spills Spot during 2017. These posts cover topics such as budgeting, debt, travel, investing, and productivity.
Our Investing Strategy & How We Keep it Simple
A deep dive into our investing strategy, why we choose passive investing in index funds, and why you should get started investing as soon as possible.
15 Financial Goals to Strive For
A checklist of 15 financial goals to strive to achieve as soon as possible. Building up savings, paying off debt, investing, and more.
5 Key Takeaways from Common Stocks & Uncommon Profits
My key lessons learned from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, including Philip Fisher's 15 points, scuttlebutt, and buying and holding common stock.
Why Cooking is An Essential Skill for Saving Money
Why cooking is one of the best skills to learn and practice for saving money on food costs. Buying groceries and cooking your meals at home is key to reducing your food expenses.
6 More Ways to Save Money on Food
One of the largest area's in any budget is food spending. Here are 6 more ways for cutting down on food expenses to save money every month.
Avoiding Monthly Payments & Subscriptions
Avoid subscriptions and monthly payments whenever possible. We keep our budget simple by cutting back on the number of bills we pay each month.
Reducing Big Expenses vs Small Expenses
Is it better to focus on cutting back on the big expenses or small expenses in your budget? Why your mindset towards spending money is the key.
Use Your Platform to Help Others
Wherever you're at in life, you can make a positive impact. We need to focus on helping others. Some recent examples of positive NFL stories.
5 Key Lessons Learned from The Intelligent Investor
5 key takeaways from the classic personal finance book, The Intelligent Investor. Learning how to find value and take the emotions out of investing.
Explaining Our Decision to Finally Cut Cable
Explaining our decision to finally cut cable TV. With so many streaming options available, we negotiated our bill to cut the cord and obtain a cheaper rate.
Money Map: How We Manage Our Finances
Use a money map to display how your money comes in and flows into your various accounts, bills, and investments. This is a visual way to monitor your money.
10 Rules of Success from Marcus Lemonis
Here are the top 10 rules of success from The Profit's Marcus Lemonis. Marcus invests in small businesses and helps them succeed.
