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.
The picture above is our own little onion farm. A few weeks ago, we planted a dozen white onion bulbs in an 18" rectangular planter box we bought from Walmart for about $5. We got about 2 dozen onion bulbs for $4 and the planter fit half of the pack. … [Read more...] about Growing Your Own Mini-Garden
With Earth Day this week, you'll be hearing a lot about ways you can help the environment, but it doesn't hurt to save a little green in your wallet at the same time, right? So here are 10 ways to live green as well as save some green, and they don't … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Live Green and Save Money Indoors
Just a quick note that Stacie and I will be hangin' with Pope B XVI this morning in the new Nationals Ballpark. I'm pretty excited to see the new stadium AND be one of a few thousand (well, about 45,000) who gets to attend the Pope's mass here in … [Read more...] about Heading to the Pope’s Mass
Just a quick post before heading out that I got together with 8 other personal finance bloggers last evening for a happy hour in D.C. We hung out at Fado Irish Pub on 7th Street in D.C. for a good 3 hours before realizing it was 9 o'clock and some of … [Read more...] about DC Blogger Happy Hour Recap
FiveCentNickel alerted me to the "Saver ID" that ING Direct is now offering its customers the opportunity to create a login ID rather than using their account number to log in. This is a sigh of relief after needing to find my account number in an … [Read more...] about Create an ING Login ID (No More Account Number!)
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but we paid it all off the next day! We put about $2000 on our Discover More card to get the 5% cash back on home improvement purchases this quarter (the first $400 of it. The rest is at 1%), but what did we buy? Well, I'll give you an image … [Read more...] about We Added $2000 in Credit Card Debt…
So I got an IM from my mom today that she received a call from TV Guide for my Gram's second husband (we'll call him "Bubba"). The agent wanted to know if Bubba wanted to renew his subscription to the TV Guide magazine. But there's just one … [Read more...] about TV Guide needs to update its subscriber list [I see dead people]
There aren't many articles each week that stick out (to me) as being worth writing about, but Frugal Dad's article today about the "Language of the Perpetual Poor" is an excellent diatribe about what you often hear people saying when they want to … [Read more...] about Language of the Perpetual Poor
