With any luck at all, by the time you read this I should be sitting in the cafe in Antigua that affords this view
Since I’ve learned how to schedule posts to publish automatically (at least I think I have), I thought I’d put this one together to appear while I’m gone. Maybe it will give you something to read here until my return and new posts begin to flow. Something perhaps you might have missed.
Compiling it proved a bit more interesting than I might have guessed. For me, anyway.
Here is the Top Ten over the last year:
- The Stock Series
- What we own and why we own it
- How I failed my daughter and a simple path to wealth
- Why your house is a terrible investment
- Stocks Part I: There’s a major market crash coming and Dr. Lo can’t save you
- Stocks Part VI: Portfolio ideas to build and keep your wealth
- Why you need F-you money
- Rent v Owning your home: Opportunity cost and running some numbers
- Stocks Part II: The market always goes up
- Stocks Part V: Keeping it simple — Considerations and tools
As you can see The Stock Series and posts from it dominate, snagging half of the top ten. In fact, if we stretched this out to the top 20, stock series posts would take six of the next ten slots too. Not surprising as this series has become what the blog is most famous for. So what does it look like if we strip those out?
Here’s the Top Ten sans the Stock Series:
- What we own and why we own it
- How I failed my daughter and a simple path to wealth
- Why your house is a terrible investment
- Why you need F-you money
- Rent v Owning your home: Opportunity cost and running some numbers
- Manifesto
- About
- Ask jlcollinsnh
- The bashing of Index Funds, Jack Bogle and a Jedi dog trick
- The Smoother Path to Wealth
What is interesting to me here, and that I would not have expected, is that 6, 7 and 8 are all what are called “Pages,” those buttons found across the top of each page.
With 6 & 7 it seems before investing too much time folks want to get idea of what this is all about around here. Makes sense.
As for Ask jlcollinsnh, this is basically a collection of mini-case studies that illustrate the principles discussed in action. No surprise it draws readers.
But what about if we pull those three?
Here’s the Top Ten sans the Stock Series and “Pages”:
- What we own and why we own it
- How I failed my daughter and a simple path to wealth
- Why your house is a terrible investment
- Why you need F-you money
- Rent v Owning your home: Opportunity cost and running some numbers
- The bashing of Index Funds, Jack Bogle and a Jedi dog trick
- The Smoother Path to Wealth
- Dividend Growth Investing
- My path for my kid: The first ten years
- The Monk and the Minister
That last one is my very first post!
In addition to all these, at the top of the right hand column on this (and every) page you’ll find a list of some of my personal favorites. Several are on these lists, but some are not.
If you are a regular reader here, there is a good chance you’ve read many, maybe even all, of these. For you, here’s my final list. None are on the lists above; they’ve been far less popular for reasons that escape me. But I like ’em. You might too.
In no particular order:
- Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
- The Mummy’s Head, Particle Physics and Knocking of Heaven’s Door
- Chain saws, Elm trees and paying for college
- The College Conundrum
- Lazy days and school days
- How not to drown in the sea of assholes
- Where in the world are you?
- Johnny wins the lotto and heads to Paris
- The. Worst. Used. Car. Ever.
- The Myth of Motivation
- What poker, basketball and Mike Whittaker taught me about luck
Ok, that’s enough. I’m off to have una cerveza.
