Nearly eight years ago – on May 1, 2005 – this site went live. In the time since then, we’ve published nearly 3,300 articles. I say “we” because, though I ran this site solo for nearly four years, it eventually became a group effort.
In the spring of 2009, I took on my first two staff [...]

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This is just a quick note to say that today marks the 7th anniversary (blog-iversary?) of FiveCentNickel. During that time, we’ve published 3006 posts* (including this one) which have received nearly 35,000 comments. In celebration of this milestone, I created the following word cloud based on the titles of past articles.

This site wouldn’t be what [...]

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This is just a quick followup to let you know that the comments should now be working properly. In case you had something to say and were unable to do so (sorry about that!), here are some links to recent articles:

Six Ways to Teach Your Kids To Be Money Savvy
Lending Club Limits Investor Questions
Four Types [...]

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This is just a quick note to say that the commenting system here on FCN isn’t currently working. We’re aware of the problem and are working on a solution. If you’ve been trying to post a comment, I apologize. Hopefully we’ll have things straightened out shortly. Oh, and special thanks to those of you that [...]

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As you may have noticed, we recently changed how comments are handled here on FCN. A couple of readers have contacted me about these changes, so I thought I’d address them directly here in case anyone else is wondering. I also thought this information might be useful to those of you that have weblogs of [...]

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By the time you read this, we’ll be deep into a roughly 3k mile roadtrip. The good news is that the bulk of the driving is packed into the first and last couple of days. As such, we’ll be able to recover (and fish, swim, etc.) in between. The better news is that I’ve lined [...]

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Wow. I can’t believe that I almost forgot about this, but… Today is FiveCentNickel’s fourth birthday. It’s really hard for me to believe that it’s been four years since I wrote these words:
Welcome to fivecentnickel.com, a new weblog about personal finance written from the perspective of a thirty-something family man.
(I’m still thirty-something, by the way.)
In [...]

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By the time you read this, we’ll be on our way out of town for a much needed vacation. Fear not… I’ve lined up a bunch of guest posts to fill the void, and I’ll also try to pop in every once in awhile to see how things are going.
Aside from that, I’ll be posting [...]

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Are you having trouble leaving comments? If so, please let me know.
I recently had to implement a simple little challenge-response test for leaving comments due to a recent deluge of spam comments. When trying to leave comment, you should see a “captcha” image containing a financial word. Simply type the word into the required field [...]

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This is a just a quick (and nearly belated!) note to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July. We slept in this morning and then had a fairly lazy day, though we did go our to see Hancock. It rained late this afternoon, and our kids don’t handle late nights well at all, so we [...]

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