Comments on: 10 Reasons You Aren’t Rich

By: Susanna

Susanna — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:10:44 +0000

Let’s see… 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10. Yep. It’s no mystery to me why I’m not a millionaire! Though honestly it’s not something I aspire to. I’m happy having enough to live comfortably. If I gave up my hobbies and stopped spending time with my family and friends so I could devote hours to managing my finances I’d be miserable.

By: gary

gary — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:30:24 +0000

You’ve just insulted the majority of the American people!

By: roxanne

roxanne — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:23:49 +0000

Respectfully, you are way off base for telling the millions upon millions of the working poor that their problem of not being rich isn’t that they “don’t make enough money.” Victim blaming is the great American pastime and poverty is the greatest crime in America.

When you make minimum wage or only slightly more than minimum wage and have to choose between food and paying for transportation to get to work, or between paying the rent and getting medical care, you aren’t worried about competing materialistically with neighbors and you aren’t making stupid choices with what little money you do have.

If your aspirations are to be an accurate, in-depth journalist, please research your topic a little better.

By: Mary Lou

Mary Lou — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:57:39 +0000

Thank you for a great article. It woke me up.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:55:03 +0000

Good article. I enjoyed it. I would submit one more for your list…

11. You keep it all to yourself. A funny thing happens when you start giving money away before you become wealthy. Money loses its grip on you. You become more relaxed and less afraid about losing it…which makes you smarter about how you use it and allows you to make more of it. In fact, giving is one area where God actually tells people to test him.

By: brooke

brooke — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:49:02 +0000

Hi, Just read your article and I give it an A+ in rhetoric and a C- in substance.

So, if I have one or more of your bad
traits…the hard part is not recognising them – but fixing them. HOW???

By: Debt Hater

Debt Hater — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:05:44 +0000

The 67th Festival of Frugality right here!…

Welcome to the 67th Festival of Frugality!Save some cash, save the earth, save your health!There are a lot of good tips for saving in this week’s festival (and some thought provoking posts as well).Here are the best, arranged in categories…

By: tanyetta

tanyetta — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:43:00 +0000

loved this post.

By: curt

curt — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:31:59 +0000

Modestly sized, to-the-point, and I suspect totally on the money (so to speak. Suze Orman makes her living with the points you made so simply.

By: d

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:26:20 +0000

You need to state a few more reasons because 1-10 don’t apply to me or it could be you’re missing a few more vital keypoints to why some individuals have a harder time to climb out of the cycle of the lower or middle class.