The end of the year – it’s a time to look back and remember all that’s happened. It’s also a time to reflect on the best of the best for the year. I thought it would be fun to put out a call to those in the personal finance community and ask for their best article of the year. These are articles that either the author thought was their best work or perhaps the readers responded strongly to. I think as you read through these you’ll find a lot of gems, great information, interesting stories, and even a little controversy. Enjoy!
The following are the best of personal finance articles in 2010:
Saving
PT Money | 104 Ways to Save Extra Money
The Saved Quarter | Make or Save $1,000 This Month
Prairie EcoThrifter | Creating Wealth With What You Already Have
Sustainable Personal Finance | Don’t Lighten Your Wallet with Inefficient Bulbs
Investing
Oblivious Investor | 401k Rollover: Where, Why, and How
Generation X Finance | The Lost Decade of Investing: Or Was It?
The Smarter Wallet | Modern Portfolio Theory & Building A Well-Diversified Portfolio
Money Smarts Blog | Canadian Discount Brokerage Comparison
Cash Money Life | Investment Strategies For Beginners
The Military Wallet | Best Investment Options for Deployed Military Members
The Dividend Guy | Why Dividend Investing Will Become The Investment Trend In 2011
Smart On Money | 5 Reasons Why You Should Never Open A Roth IRA
Money Cone | Switching Brokers? What You Need to Know to Avoid Getting Hit With Fees!
Frugality
Live Real Now | 10 Ways to (re)Use Shopping Bags
Bucksome Boomer | The Old Days Weren’t Frugal by Choice
Money Crashers | How to Find Cheap Apartments for Rent – The Ultimate 5-Step Guide
Wealth Informatics | Free consumer reports – Credit , Banking, Insurance, Employment & More
Personal Finance By The Book | Change Your Mindset and Save a Fortune: 200,000 Miles is the New 100,000 Miles
Aloysa’s Kitchen Sink | Five Reasons To Stop Being Frugal And Get A Life
Taxes
Wealth Web Gurus | Marginal Tax vs Average Tax – Canada
Debt
Couple Money | Debt Reduction Strategy Guide
The College Investor | Government Debt Reduction and Your Investments
Financially Poor | Bankruptcy Is Not A Sin
KNS Financial | Should I Cosign For a Loan?
Deliver Away Debt | How to Pay Off Debt Fast
Sense To Save | Reader question: How To Get Motivated To Pay Off Debt?
PerkStreet Financial Blog | How You Stack Up: What Does the Average American’s Debt Look Like?
Career
Studenomics | Going Full Time With Your Side Business– When is it the Right Time?
Christian PF | 24 Home Based Business Ideas
The Financial Blogger | Running Multiple Blogs, Earning 6 Figures, Working Less Than 40 Hours – A How To Guide To Financial Freedom
Moolanomy | Lessons That Everyone Can Learn From Successful Entrepreneurs
Advisor Think Box | What Will Your Business Look Like One Year From Today?
Budgets Are Sexy | I Got Fired.
Financial Samurai | The Dark Side Of Early Retirement
Free Money Finance | Career Insurance: Insuring Your Most Valuable Asset
Credit
Wealth Pilgrim | Ways to Improve Your Credit Score Fast
Personal Dividends | Credit Card Fees: Designed to Exploit Your Inner Ape?
Not Made of Money | Eliminate Credit Card Debt – 47 Ways To Save Money and Get The Cash You need to Get Rid of Your Credit Card Debt
Nerd Wallet | How Will a Charge Card Affect My Credit Score?
Money and Money Management
Good Financial Cents | Get Your Free Money: Treasure Hunting Online
My Dollar Plan | 10 Lessons from the Downsized TV Show
The Digerati Life | Skip Commercial Banks! How Cash Only Living Can Work
Passive Income Now | Income Sources to Avoid At All Costs
Soldier of Finance | How My Grandmother’s 1998 Chevy Lumina Made Me Over $2 Million Dollars
Money Smart Life | Seven Habits of Financially Healthy Couples
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff | Top 10 Ways To Make Money
Money Crush | Making Money Online: Is It All That It’s Cracked Up to Be?
Frugal Confessions | Yoga and Money: Focus and Strengthen Your Finances as Preparation for When Opportunity Knocks
Your Smart Money Moves | 5 Important Financial Questions To Ask Your Parents
Retire by 40 | Retire by 40’s Money Flowchart
Enemy of Debt | Great Financial Advice From The In-Flight Safety Handbook
My Journey To Millions | Does Money Buy Happiness? Evan’s Theory
US News Money | 6 Best Money Tips for Young People
Canadian Finance Blog | Control Your Spending With A Budget
Personal Finance (overall)
Bargaineering | Seven Money Lies from Monopoly
The Wisdom Journal | 10 First Time Homebuyer Mistakes
Man Vs Debt | 11 Reasons to Ditch Your Television
Bible Money Matters | 5 Ways To Successfully Fail At Personal Finance
Money Under 30 | Sell Your House! How to Beat the Market, Find a Buyer, and Fetch More for Your Home
Saving Money Today | 7 Things I Learned Watching Honeymooners Re-runs
Frugal Zeitgeist | How To Simplify Your Life
The Canadian Personal Finance Site | The Good Wine
Little House | Psychic Predictions
DINKS Finance | DINKS (Dual Income No Kids) – Smart or Selfish?
Clever Dude | The Power of Forgiveness
Investor Junkie | Life Isn’t Fair. Now Get Over It.
Yakezie Personal Finance | The Clock Builder vs. The Time Teller
Sweating The Big Stuff | Why You Should Donate More Money to Charity
Consumerism Commentary | The Quest For a Balanced Life
Yes, I Am Cheap | How Social Networking Can Negatively Affect Your Finances
Green Panda Tree House | How To Not Lose Your Pants On Your First Mortgage
And there you have it, the best articles of 2010 from some of our favorite sites!
What are some of your favorite articles? Let me know in the comments.
Do you have a site and your best article isn’t in this list? Shoot me an email and include your site name and the article.
Thanks for the mention and inclusion in this prestigious list! Happy New Year!
You’re welcome Cajun. You have a great New Year too!
Awesome list…one I need to bookmark. I am honored to be included.
Thank you Joe. Honored to have you!
Thanks for including me in the roundup – some great articles there for 2010 – the PF blogosphere keeps getting better and better!
Indeed it is!
huge list! thx Craig!
You’re welcome TFB.
Thanks for putting together the list! A great reading listing for us all to go through. I think I’ve read 60% of them, and will go through them all.
Cheers, Sam
Only 60% Sam? You have some work to do! Haha.
This is a great selection and we are honored to be a part of it! I can think of nothing better than usher in the new year better prepared financially after having read through this list!
Thank you Arohan! I hope the articles here help people out. Nothing would make me happier!
Woah fantastic list! Its going to take me a while but I’ll be visiting each entry
You have until the 2011 list comes out to read them all!
Wow. Great list. There’s plenty there that I missed this year that i’ve grabbed for some reading later.
Glad to hear. Come back and let us know some of your favorites!
Awesome list! Thanks for including us!
You are welcome Sustainable!
It is an honour to be a part of this round up. Some pretty awesome articles were written in 2010. Thanks so much for putting this together. I have some excellent reading ahead of me.
Best of luck in 2011.
Best of luck to you too Miss T!
Wow! I have some reading to do to catch up. Thanks for putting it together.
Thnx for including me with this great list!
That is one heck of a list! Thank you so much for including Budgeting in the Fun Stuff!!!
I have some financial goals set for myself this year. Hoping to take a nice vacation, but I’m gonna need the self control to stick to my budgets 😡 Lots of good stuff around the web this year, hope the next one brings the same!
This is a pretty good article about negotiating debt, http://www.prudentpenny.com/2010/11/10/struggling-with-debt-try-negotiating-it/ – and another one that I recently used to cut my cable: http://www.prudentpenny.com/2010/04/30/goodbye-cable-satellite-company-hello-free-online-tv/
Thanks so much for including me! I’m honored to be one of your top four! 🙂
Great year-end wrap up! Thanks for including my post. 🙂
Great list Craig, happy to be included!
Thanks for including my link! Great list.
Thank you so much! Great list! I need to catch up on some of them.
Thanks for including me in your list. It is a real honor!
Happy New Year!
Thanks for including my article! 🙂
My pleasure Ryan.
Awesome list! Thanks for including my post…and happy New Year!
Great list! I’ve got some reading to do!
Nice work, FFB. Thanks for including me.
You’re welcome Philip.
That’s one heck of a list. But I feel strangely left out. 🙂 It’s awesome to see the quality of work that everyone puts out.
You’re not left out any longer Sandy!
Thanks! I’ve actually been by here 3 times already coming back to some really good things that I missed.
Great to hear that!
Craig – You rock!
Mike
It’s funny Mike, I was thinking the same thing!
Thanks.
Thanks for the great list Craig! Here’s to a happy and successful 2011 for all! 😀
Hope your 2011 is awesome Brad!
This is a great list! I like the way you broke up the various categories for easy reading. Thanks for including my link!
So many good tips, the only problem is going to be finding the time to act on them all! Thanks for including my post.
Thanks for including my post Craig, this is an excellent all round list featuring many of my favorite bloggers 🙂
Great list, Craig!
All the best,
Len
Len Penzo dot Com
Thanks Len, you too!
Hi Craig, great list. I like The Smarter Wallet’s post on Modern Portfolio Theory & Building a well diversified portfolio, as this is key to investing. Over on the Jemstep blog readers might also enjoy this original post on Investing Lessons from Nelson Mandela:
http://www.jemstep.com/blog/2010/11/investing-lessons-from-nelson-mandela/
Thanks again.
Those are a couple of good ones Kevin!
Craig,
Thanks so much for inlcuding my article in the list. I think if every person took the time to read all of these articles, and implemented just three of them they would greatly improve their financial situation in 2011. Perhaps a worthy New Year’s resolution!!
Ted Jenkin
I’d love to hear it if someone did take action from one of these articles. That would be an awesome story!
Your list is great, l loved to read again its full of the best information. Thank You!
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