How Best To Keep Up With Blogs Which Apps

This is a page of alllll my favorite financial resources out there. The best blogs, apps, services, books and a handful of other great sites I've come to be obsessed with over time…

We'll start with my favorite bank and apps, then work our way down to the best $$$ books and then blogs and then finally some other financial resources I check out consistently. Hope this helps!!

Last updated 8/14/20

Favorite Financial Apps & Services:

	USAA Bank — My favorite financial institution ever. I love their products, I love their customer service (always highly rated), and I love how they provide anything financial I need. With over 10 accounts signed up to them myself, it's a safe bet I'm never leaving :)
	Mint.com (FREE) — If you're new to tracking your money, Mint is a great place to start. They automate all your accounts so you can see where your money is at all times, and they help you to budget and track your net worth as well.
	Personal Capital (FREE) — If you're looking for a more robust financial tracker, Personal Capital is the way to go. They're like Mint but on steroids, and have much better tools for investment and net worth tracking. Most personal finance bloggers love and use them since they automatically give you a snapshot of where all your money is along with super helpful graphs. Check out our review here.
	Digit (FREE) — This service has exploded on the scene and automatically helps you save money without lifting a finger. I was hooked from the second I tried them and have since saved over $4,000 so far, averaging about $200/mo. Highly recommend this financial resource if you suck at saving! My full review on Digit here.
	Acorns — Having trouble finding money to invest? Check out Acorns – they round up all your transactions to the nearest $1.00 and drops the difference into an investment portfolio for you. You sign up and connect your accounts once and it'll do the rest! They've invested over $400 for me so far, and my full review of them can be found here.
	Honey (FREE) — This is by far my favorite coupon service. Any time I'm about to check out and buy something online, I click the Honey button and it scours the 'net for all coupons and applies the best one to save me the most money. It literally takes seconds and I never have to Google search anymore :) You can see my write up of them here.
	Paribus (FREE) — You know how sometimes you buy stuff, and then 3 seconds later you find it cheaper elsewhere? Or you forgot a coupon or companies play the "price drop" game on you since they know your profile? Well Paribus fixes that :) You sign up to them once, and they'll help you receive reimbursement when possible. See our full review here. Paribus compensates us when you sign up for Paribus using the links we provided.
	Credit Karma (FREE) — The best place to check and monitor both your credit score AND credit report. Super easy to stay on top of it all, and plenty of calculators and simulators to help you get your score higher over time. You can see my full review of this financial resource here.

Favorite Financial Books:

	I Will Teach You To Be Rich — Hands down the BEST book out there for the younger generation. It's funny, educational, and just downright FUN to read. And a super easy one at that – which anyone with A.D.D. like me can appreciate ;) If I were to write a book, I'd imagine it would look a lot like this. (Ramit's also a PF blogger)
	The Millionaire Next Door — One of my all-time favorite books. A bit dry & statistical at times, but the first book that really opened my eyes and got the "lifestyle" part to sink in. The average millionaire isn't what you typically expect (in fact, they're quite the opposite), so if you like that kinda stuff, I def. recommend paging through it. Ya gotta have the mindset if you want millions!
	The Automatic Millionaire — This is my 3rd favorite financial book, and one I refused to read for quite some time. Just seemed too fluffy and so "look how easy it is to do!" kinda thing. But after being bored one day and sucking it up, I was VERY glad I did :) It's kinda basic and on the lighter side, but if you're one who needs someone to tell you in detail what to do – and you listen! – you'd be on the fast track to wealth in no time. Great book for any beginner.
	The Richest Man in Babylon — Oh baby, a classic! This thing was written in like the 1920's or so, and have sold in the MILLIONS so far – pretty crazy. Well, not crazy cuz it's a GREAT book, but you know what I'm saying… This is another quick read and really differentiates itself by teaching financial principals through story telling (like fable stuff). Takes place thousands of years ago way before the World Wide Web and/or Mr. Dave Ramsey ;)

Favorite Personal Finance Blogs:

My Money Blog (<– first blog i ever read!)
Four Pillar Freedom (visual and thinky)
Mad Fientist (early retirement hacks / FIRE tools)
1500 Days (early retirement / humorous)
jlcollinsnh (index investing / early retirement)
Get Rich Slowly (great for A.D.D. and quick $$$ nuggets)
Afford Anything (fun / real estate focused)
Mr. Money Mustache (when you need a good ass kicking!)
A Wealth of Common Sense (stocks stocks stocks)
Wallet Hacks (tons of quick tips)
Of Dollars and Data (personal finance using data analysis)
Early Retirement Extreme (feisty and frugal)
I Will Teach You To Be Rich (feisty and funny (and knows his $hit))

Other Financial Resources [that J$ built ;)]

All-Star Money (<–curation of the best articles in personal finance!)
PF Swagger (<– curation of the hottest apparel in personal finance)
Coin Thrill (<– my coin collecting blog)
Budgets Are Boring (<– it's a trick, don't click!)
Why You're Poor (<– i wonder why?)
Bad Voices (<– only $5.00!)
Mother Budgeter (<– hubba hubba)

Non-Money Blogs I Follow:

Raptitude (<– someone who will make you think all day long)
Derek Sivers (<– life and business hacks)
The Minimalists (<– quick wins around minimalism)
Zero Waste Home (<– instigator of the zero waste movement!)
Becoming Minimalist (<– great storytelling around minimalism)

Hope this was useful!

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*Some of the financial resources and products above I get paid for if you sign up, and others I don't. I only ever pimp the stuff I'm obsessed about though, as nothing else makes the list!

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