Hey folks and welcome to another edition of the Financial Panther side hustle report! As regular readers know, each month I document exactly what I made from side hustling using various sharing economy and gig economy apps. Some of these apps are ones you’ve probably heard of before. Others might be new to you. My […]
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The “Other” Business Credit Cards That Aren’t From Chase Or American Express
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. A few weeks ago, I opened up a Bank of America Business Advantage Cash Rewards Card. This is a business credit card from Bank of America that offers cash back on my everyday purchases and has a cash signup bonus […]
How To Start Investing: Simple Investing Strategies And Tools Anyone Can Use
The hardest thing about investing, for most of us at least, is the very beginning. This is that moment in time when you’ve opened up your first investment account, but now have no idea what you’re supposed to do next. I found myself in this position when I started my first job after graduating from […]
Health Insurance When You’re Self-Employed
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
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
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
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. 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, […]
Best Ways To Save For College: The College Savings Strategies We’re Using With Our New Baby
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
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
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 […]
