I’ve mentioned many times on The Simple Dollar that I enjoy brewing my own beer at home, and just as many times, readers have requested a walkthrough of this process along with some cost analyses.
Recently, I made a batch of porter and took some photographs along the way to illustrate the process. Let’s [...]

I think we all have financial confessions to make, little things we do with our money that aren’t so smart or that we’re not proud of.  The thing is, no one else really knows about our “dirty little secrets” so we’re not accountable to anyone to change our bad habits.
To help keep me honest I’ll [...]

This is the twenty-first (and last) in a weekly series of articles providing a chapter-by-chapter in-depth “book club” reading of Benjamin Graham’s investing classic The Intelligent Investor. Warren Buffett describes this book: “I read the first edition of this book early in 1950, when I was nineteen. I thought then that it was by [...]

I love owning a home and in general enjoy the challenges of repairing my own home, making improvements, etc.  I say generally because what I don’t enjoy is the fact that most often the big problems happen at the worst times.  Either that or they are beyond my ability to repair and require me having [...]