Comments on: What do you want to read about on iwillteachyoutoberich in 2008?

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:11:24 +0000

Thanks for your blog–always a great read and always full of great tips and ideas!

I would love to see some in-depth analysis of the socially-repsonsible investment choices out there. I’m young and idealistic; I want to be savvy with my long-term saving/investing, but I also want to use my money to fund initiatives that make the world better!

By: jspin77

jspin77 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:38:20 +0000

I was reading another blog on money and I find I like this blogs comments better most of the time.

So they were having car problems and were talking about the cost of repairing it. I have had discussion about used versus new cars with people and thought I would pose the question to you.

I recently had to pay ~3,000 to fix car problems for a 1999 model car. The car while its worth more than that, it certainly isn’t worth much more maybe say $6,000. I started thinking about it and thought, man if this were to continue, I would be WAY better off with a new car or just leasing one. It would be a little more money but not much. Essentially, its costing me a lot to drive this old car… and its OLD so I am not even enjoying it.

I would love to hear what others think.

By: Sendhil

Sendhil — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:35:45 +0000

I’m interested in a primer on insurance: The most important policies to have, how to decide how much coverage you need, and simple ways to research and select the best providers and policies.

(I have extensive business and finance experience, but somehow don’t know squat about insurance. Besides my own hangups about spending money and real estate, this seems like the biggest thing I need to know more about.)

By: Tertius

Tertius — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:16:43 +0000

Ramit, what would you like to learn this year? As you probably know, one of the best ways to learn is to teach others. What is it that you would like to learn about personal finance this year?

By: JT

JT — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:22:13 +0000

Hmmmm…I would actually love to see some more information on nuts-and-bolts/tools, specfically spreadsheets vs. MS Money vs. Quicken vs. manual methods. I say this as I had used Money in the past, used spreadsheets last year and just went back to Money this year. I just spent a day of my weekend trying to intall a new version (wtf with this Microsoft Live ID/password it demands???) get it working with my accounts, and get a budget into the stupid thing that made sense…very frustrating and *almost* makes me want to regress (or advance?) to spreadsheets

By: Ramit Sethi

Ramit Sethi — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:57:08 +0000

Anthony, Indeed there is. For the last few months, I've been quietly testing out user forums, which I'll roll out to everyone soon. To check them out, please visit http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/forums

By: Anthony Avila

Anthony Avila — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:54:59 +0000

You’ve even commented yourself, Ramit, about how smart your readers are. While we’re all here primarily for your advice, thoughts, sarcasm, etc, I wonder if there’s a way to have readers network, help each other…we all share interests and questions, I think it would be awesome if we could all lend help where we have strength, and benefit from others’ in the same way… ? we can dream, right?

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:35:23 +0000

I know this has been said earlier, but I’m going to college next year and I’d like to know how I can make the most out of my money (not just while in college but also to earn more with it for when i graduate.)

By: Will

Will — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:26:10 +0000

Starting small businesses and entrepreneurship

By: quiesmare

quiesmare — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:23:03 +0000

I personally need a psychology-based approach to investing in retirement accounts. I simply cannot get past the ‘I can’t touch this for a loooong time’ aspect, despite knowing intellectually how ridiculous that is. I don’t know if that would be helpful for others but it is an almost insurmountable obstacle for me!