Between getting ready for vacation, leaving on vacation, and catching up afterwards, I didn’t read as many blog posts as usual. I did want to highlight some of my favorites, I hope you find something interesting to read.
It’s not required that I feature a post from The Woke Salaryman every month, but I just really enjoy the blog. This post, We Are Born Into Boxes, made me think a little.
The writing at The Belle Curve has slowed down a bunch this year, but I very much enjoyed this post from the end of September. After the Harvest offers a better way to think about your portfolio in the middle of a bear market.
I am a huge proponent of the emergency fund. When contemplating a missed paycheck, or quitting work, I find nothing more comforting than a big ole’ pile of cash. As I think about retiring, I have been plotting how to have even more cash saved to protect me from that dreaded sequence of returns risk. However, I found plenty of food for thought in Kitty’s post at Bitches Get Riches: You’re Saving Too Much Money In Your Emergency Fund. I still think I should be saving against SORR, but might agree that, while I continue working, my emergency fund might be overlarge.
Blue Lobster at Millionaire on the Prairie also loves an emergency fund, but is starting to worry about her ability to loosen the purse strings. In Money Habits Ought Not to Be Underestimated she writes about the mental struggle to switch from saving to spending as she approaches retirement. Personally, I would turn off dividend reinvestment and take advantage of some of that mailbox money, but she wants to keep investing even in retirement.
This post isn’t really (strictly) about finances. But I enjoyed this list from A Dime Saved of Books That Have Sold Over 50 Million Copies. I haven’t read all of them, but several; I would say the quality of the writing in these books is… mixed. Nevertheless, I might hold onto that list as a source of books to read at some point.