Here's another great article from the awesome team at Get Rich Slowly:

Two Stories About Retirement Planning

I never know where the personal-finance lessons are going to come from. Today, I heard two stories about retirement from my own family. First, my wife told me that her retirement program at work might be cut. Next, I learned that my family’s box company has had a bizarre retirement crisis of its own.

Don’t count your chickens.

Here's a great article that I stumbled upon this morning from the Simple Dollar Blog:

Scam Alert! Ten Signs to Avoid

Imagine if you had little or no ethics or morality at all. You live under the belief that if you lie and misrepresent right to a person’s face and they believe it, they deserve to have their money taken from them for being so stupid.There are a lot of people out there that fall into this category. Rather than treating people fairly, they’re much more interested in doing whatever they can to convince you to give them something for next to nothing. Of course, if you’re the one to fall into this kind of trap, you pay with your money, your property, and sometimes your identity.