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Health Insurance When You’re Self-Employed

Last Updated on September 19, 2020September 19, 2020 1 Comment
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When I quit my job last year to go full-time with blogging and side hustling, not only did I lose my steady paycheck, I also lost my health insurance. The health insurance I had at my job was pretty good too. My employer paid my monthly premiums, which meant I paid nothing for my health […]

August 2020 Side Hustle Report – $2,447.68

Last Updated on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 8 Comments
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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Financial Panther Side Hustle Report. Each month, I document exactly what I made from side hustling using sharing economy and gig economy apps. In today’s report, I’ll be recapping what I made from the gig economy in August 2020. Here’s the breakdown of my side hustle earnings […]

My Road Trip Home During The Pandemic – And Using Points To Book Suites Along The Way

Last Updated on September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Leave a Comment
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About a year ago, I booked a two-week trip to Greece for a friend’s wedding. This trip was going to be a big one, with my wife, myself, and our future baby all headed overseas to celebrate with our friends (our son would be 5 months old by the time we started our trip – […]

How I Justify Paying Over $2,700 In Credit Card Annual Fees In 2020

Last Updated on August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 14 Comments
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Before I got into the world of credit cards and travel rewards, I only had one credit card – and importantly, it had no annual fee. Credit cards with annual fees didn’t make much sense to me. Why, after all, would I pay a bank in order to have the privilege of spending my own […]

Best Ways To Save For College: The College Savings Strategies We’re Using With Our New Baby

Last Updated on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 18 Comments
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Life has changed a lot for me and my family since we had a baby earlier this year. Besides the obvious day-to-day changes that have happened, adding a baby into our life has also meant a significant change to our overall future financial plans. Retirement and financial independence isn’t the only thing we have to […]

How To Make Your Own Free Version Of Acorns

Last Updated on August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 9 Comments
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One popular fintech app that I’ve never really promoted on this blog is an app called Acorns. It’s what you’d call a micro-investing or micro-savings app. Here’s how it works. You link your credit and debit cards to Acorns. The app then monitors all of your transactions on those cards. Whenever you make a transaction, […]

July 2020 Side Hustle Report – $3,780.58

Last Updated on August 13, 2020August 7, 2020 11 Comments
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Welcome back to another edition of the Financial Panther Side Hustle Report. Today we’ll be taking a look at what I was able to make from the gig economy in July 2020. As a recap, over the past four years, I’ve tracked all of the side hustle income that I’ve made via gig economy and […]