Covering up the student body (Photo: flickr.com) Sometimes, you just need a holiday. A time to get away. For people struggling to make their budget stretch, that could mean short term loans and no fax payday loans in Washington DC. For college students, that can mean blowing off steam after a tough semester. Since 2002 at UCLA, ...

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The August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research arrived in my mailbox yesterday. It contains an interesting article from Nicolao, Irwin, and Goodman entitled “Happiness for Sale: Do Experiential Purchases Make Consumers Happier than Material Purchases?” This is a topic we’ve skirted at Get Rich Slowly, but never fully explored. Many readers have offered ...

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Here's a story about a relatively new friend of mine, someone I don't think I've mentioned here before. Let's call her Bella.Bella is a divorced mom with two teenage kids. She gets child support payments from her ex-husband, but money is tight. She works at least two part time jobs at any given moment, and ...

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Franchisees left companyless Old Country Buffet filed for Chapter 11 in January 2008, but emerged with reduced debt in April 2009. People say recession sparks innovation, creativity, responsibility, and all other sorts of optimistic-sounding things. It also causes failure, collapse, bankruptcy and all other sorts of apocalyptic-sounding things. It also causes complications, such as leaving franchise owners to ...

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A while back, I posted "Do You Have a Crisis Plan," asking what you would do if you were laid off or had some other sort of financial crisis. But sometimes the question is not just "what will you give up," but "how quickly will you give things up."An example drawn from real life: a ...

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