Everything is a Credit or Debit
If you’re like me you probably earned a lot of rewards points over the last year, and with travel restricted, had a lot less options on how to use them. One trick I’ve seen some retailers like Amazon using, is the “Shop With Points” option. This sounds like a great idea! Earn points from your […]
Your Net Worth is a pretty simple concept, add up all of your assets, add up all of your debts/liabilities, subtract your debt total from your asset total and you have your Net Worth. There are great apps and websites for helping you calculate this number, such as www.mint.com and www.personalcapital.com . I’ve been promising […]
Here come the numbers we’ve all been waiting for! The wife and I put together our plan this week to pay off all of our private student loans and consumer debts using my previously written about plan of a mixture of the avalanche and snowball methods, with my own flair. Using a mix of balance […]
For the last 10 months I’ve been dealing with one of the ultimate fears in life, I’m going to lose my Mom, more likely sooner than later. She has an inoperable cancer that life expectancy is 6 months to about 3 years depending on how early it is found and how well it reacts to […]
With many Americans and others around the world under social distancing and stay at home orders, they may be finding that their spending decreases. Instead of filling up the gas tank once or twice a week per car, they may only need 1 car and less than a tank a week. They’re no longer stopping […]
For my readers in the US, and other countries offering stimulus checks. By now you’ve probably calculated what your stimulus check from the CARES act will add up to. You may have even planned what you’re going to do with it, if you don’t need it to pay bills right away. $1200 per adult, $500 […]
The fabulous hosts of the Choose FI podcast advocate and can teach you how to travelhack with credit card trave reward points, but for those of us getting out of debt that still have places to go, what can we do? The answer is another of the Choose FI mantras, do it just a little […]
So you’ve followed Dave Ramsey’s snowball, or the avalanche, or some combination or variation of them and gotten yourself out of consumer debt. You’ve started to grow the gap between what you earn and what you spend. Your fundamental game is getting stronger every day. Where do we go from here? The next step is […]
We’ve covered some pretty big topics so far in a few short months over several posts, but we haven’t really covered the basics. Hopefully, if you need somewhere to start, this post will give you a look at the basics of money management. One of my favorite concepts is one Paula Pant from affordanything.com describes […]
Side Hustle is quite the buzz word these days. Everything from gig jobs like Uber and Grub Hub to selling on Ebay or Etsy can be a side hustle, as well as freelancing, contracting, or owning your own business. I’d love to get some feedback from the audience and see what your side hustles were/are. […]
