I write about fintech and fintech banking apps a lot, so I sometimes get asked what I think about these companies and how safe they are, especially given some of the negative news that’s happened with some of them in the past year. As a bit of background, most of the fintech banks you see […]
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February 2025 Side Hustle Report – $237.18
In this post, we’ll take a look at what I earned from side hustles and the gig economy in February 2025. Side Hustle Income for February 2025 Airbnb/Rental Income: $2,400 (not included in total) Rover: $153 DoorDash/Uber Eats/Grubhub: $19.82 Shipt/Instacart: $0 Wag: $14 Bird/Lime: $0 Selling Trash Finds/Flipping: $30 WeGoLook: $0 Roadie: $0 TaskRabbit: $0 […]
The Credit Cards I Keep Getting Over And Over
When you’ve been in the credit card game long enough, you start to notice that certain cards always seem to come back into your wallet. I’m not someone who focuses on spending categories too much – most of the time, I find my time is better served opening new cards to get signup bonuses. Since […]
A Few Reminders To Myself When Investing In Uncertain Times
Over the past several years, my portfolio has grown considerably through a combination of good returns plus regular savings and contributions. These days, I’m comfortably in the Coast FI stage of my financial independence journey, where my portfolio is large enough that it should grow enough to cover my expenses at traditional retirement age, even […]
January 2025 Side Hustle Report – $1,087.20
January has come and gone, so in this post, we’ll take a look at what I earned from side hustling and gig economy apps in January 2025. Here’s what I was able to make last month. Side Hustle Income for January 2025 Airbnb/Rental Income: $2,400 (not included in total) Rover: $935.85 DoorDash/Uber Eats/Grubhub: $54.95 Shipt/Instacart: […]
Remember That You Have No Job Security With Gig Economy Apps
The other day, I received an email from Marketforce that confused me. For some reason, all of the secret shops I had scheduled for the month had been canceled by Marketforce. To make matters worse, when I logged into my account, I discovered that I couldn’t view any available secret shops anymore. From the looks […]
The Beauty Of Coast FIRE
The financial independence movement changed my life, but funny enough, I don’t really consider financial independence an important part of my life these days. Maybe my life has changed too much now that I have two kids and a lot of expenses to deal with (mortgage, daycare, etc). In any event, the idea of financial […]
December 2024 Side Hustle Report – $1,247.01
We’re already a few weeks into 2025, but before we go on, we need to close out the 2024 side hustle reports. Every month for the past 8 years, I’ve tracked everything I’ve earned from doing various side hustles with gig economy apps. Here’s a look at what I was able to earn from these […]
February – November 2024 Side Hustle Report – $8,454.18
Okay, well, I was going over my posts and figuring out what to write about when I realized I hadn’t written any side hustle reports since January of 2024. Yikes! It’s not that I haven’t been side hustling – I still regularly deliver for DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub (using my bike, of course). My […]
A Look At The Current Mega High-Yield Savings Account Landscape
Mega high-yield savings accounts are a topic I’ve dealt with in great detail on this blog (a full list of previous posts I’ve written about this topic can be found at the end of this post). What counts as a mega high-yield savings account might vary depending on who you ask, but my definition is […]
