I read many blog posts each day. They mostly focus on personal finance, but also on minimalism and travel . Here are some of my favorite posts I read this month.
The USA enacted tariffs at the beginning of April, quickly followed by unhappiness in the markets (quickly noted in my portfolio). I found many posts on tariffs, market volatility, and cash oh-so interesting:
- A Short History of Tariffs from A Wealth of Common Sense.
- Weekend Reading: Tanked by Trump from Monevator.
- Jesse Cramer The Best Interest had quite a few winners (in my opinion) this month: Pedal to the Metal? (what’s your investment style?), The 15 Tariff Questions I’ve Heard Most (pretty much what the title says), Let Them Trade Stocks (sometimes you can’t save people from themselves).
- Ten good reasons to hold cash. Squirrel at Monevator wrote this before the market started imitating a roller coaster this month; her arguments were great before the shake up, and speak even more to me now.
Spring cleaning is definitely on my mind, and as I’ve read often enough, the best way to clean up is to start with getting rid of things you don’t use. I was inspired by plenty of decluttering posts this month:
- When the Stuff You Love Keeps You From the Stuff You Love, by Joshua Becker at Becoming Minimalist.
- From Joshua Becker again, Messes Must Be Cleaned Up.
- Like cleaning, decluttering is less painful if you do a little bit regularly. From No Sidebar: 10 Everyday Decluttering Tasks to Create a Clutterfree Home. (I really should do more of these.)
- Also from No Sidebar: 8 Reasons Decluttering a Little Made a Big Difference for Me, by Karen Trefzger, and The Biggest Simple Living Influencer by Emma Jayne. (Spoiler alert! You should get outside into Nature.)
When I started blogging, I had a number of worries: will my bosses find out that I am thinking about retiring? What about my patients? Will people leave mean comments? The Woke Salaryman ran a thought provoking piece this month, which I liked very much: The year I left mean comments on the internet.
Femme Frugality had a very interesting post, (which I did not fact check myself ;-)), about inaccuracies that have become entrenched in personal finance articles and are perpetuated on the internet (making verification difficult). Specifically, Canada and America Aren’t the Same Country: Women’s Banking History Edition.
Do you have any favorite posts from April?