Right now, many people are wary about investing. However, now can be a time of great opportunity — if you go about investing in a savvy manner and with a plan. Today, I offer a guest post from Wade Slome, who wrote How I Managed $20,000,000,000 by Age 32, as part of his virtual tour of financial blogs.

If you got your hands on a $100 bill, what would you do with it? Before you save it, invest it or spend it, here’s an idea: play with it a little.
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A post over at The Simple Dollar really inspired me. It’s ideas for preparing food inexpensively.
Learn to prepare meals at home from simple, unpackaged foods.
It’s a great money saving idea that can make you more self-sufficient, and help you reduce your expenses (thereby increasing the amount of money you have available to save, invest or pay down debt).
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In last hour’s personal finance tip, I mentioned that interest charges for debt are just so much wasted money. However, you can use the law of compounding interest to your advantage if you follow the sixth personal finance tip in my list:
Invest.
There are many different options for investing: stocks, bonds, FX trading, futures, commodities, funds and more. You need to figure out your risk tolerance, and go with what is comfortable for you. The best way for most investors, though, is to choose a few investments that you can hold for the long haul. My post on Lazy Man and …read more