Clever Dude founded CleverDude.com in June 2006 while working as a technical analyst in the Washington, D.C. area. A Penn State graduate, he built the site as a side project alongside a white-collar career that included earning a master’s degree and multiple promotions.
In five years he wrote nearly 1,300 articles on personal finance and life lessons drawn from his own experience. The blog grew from a hobby into a recognized early voice in the personal-finance community and generated meaningful revenue. He sold the site in 2010, continued as a guest contributor through 2015, and returned in 2023 after further career advances, paying off his home, and extensive travel.
I thought it was just me, but I guess Flexo over at Consumerism Commentary also got pinged by a slimy spammer for an email list as well as demographic info (I guess all I could come up with would be IP addresses). Well, I'm here to tell you that I … [Read more...] about I don’t sell (or give away) email addresses
Hot on the heels of writing "Trying and Buying Musical Instruments the Wrong Way", I'd like to announce that one of the last major stupid purchases from college is officially gone: my 5-string Washburn XB-925 Bass Guitar, which I bought for about … [Read more...] about Sold my old Washburn Bass Guitar
guess who are the ones gladly accepting them when I offer? Yep, my coworkers. When I saw a $2 off coupon for Cosi a couple months ago in the Washington Post Express newspaper, I grabbed a couple of the papers at the end of the day (when they were … [Read more...] about Coworkers make fun of my coupons, but…
I've been holding these bookmarks for a while, and I've accumulated enough to make it worthwhile to write a post. There have been a number of sites recently that have either ranked or highlighted CleverDude.com with other Personal Finance sites. … [Read more...] about Highlighting the Highlighters: Clever Dude gets ranked!
It's only a few days into October, but I still think I'm allowed to highlight what I think were my best posts from last month. This is the second installment of the "Best Posts" and you can see August's Best Posts here. August was a record month … [Read more...] about Best Posts from September, 2007
A month ago, I told you we canceled Blockbuster in favor of trying out Redbox. We didn't rent anything right away because, well, we were tired of movies. But about 2 weeks ago, we decided to rent a movie. Here's how it went: We walked up to the … [Read more...] about Redbox Test One: Success!
Wow, 43% of you are just like me and have a Personal Finance blog, with another 11% on the way. I really need to reach out to different audiences! Nah, I like the community I have now. You're (mostly) all great people, with only a few trolls here … [Read more...] about Reader Poll Results: Are you a PF Blogger too?
With our new Mini Cooper purchase last week, I had a tough time figuring out where to put the debt without screwing up our existing debt scales. The debt is going to be short-lived and includes an auto loan and a 0% credit card balance. Here's … [Read more...] about Updated Debt Scales with New Auto Debt
