Earlier this week, my wife got an email from the state dental association asking dental offices to shut down until the end of the month for non-emergency dental care. It’s technically not mandated, but like many of us going through the current Coronavirus pandemic, we’re doing our part to limit the spread of this virus […]
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Strategies For Dealing With The Next Recession
I’ve always thought that one of the formative periods of my life was the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. It’s an event that I think defined my cohort. We graduated into one of the worst economic periods in history, and if the studies are right, it might have set us back financially for the […]
February 2020 Side Hustle Report – $1,197.64
Hello readers and welcome to another edition of the Financial Panther side hustle report! In today’s post, we’ll be taking a look at what I was able to earn from side hustling in February 2020. As regular readers know, each month I document exactly what I earned from side hustling using various sharing economy and […]
Do Bonds Really Stop People From Freaking Out?
When it comes to investing, it seems like most long-term success comes down to a few things. First, you have to pick a reasonable asset allocation, which generally means investing in a broadly diversified portfolio (I recommend Total Stock Market Index Funds like VTSAX, FSKAX, or the like). Second, once you’ve picked a reasonable asset […]
A Thanksgiving Trip To Miraval Arizona Resort & Spa With Hyatt Points
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. One of the things that travel hacking has allowed me to do is to travel a lot more – and to do so in ways that I wasn’t able to do before. Back in December, I wrote about a spontaneous […]
Side Hustling And Taxes – And Why I Don’t Worry About Taxes That Much
Whenever I bring up my various side hustles, I’ll sometimes get criticisms that these gigs aren’t worth doing since I have to pay taxes on that income. I was reminded of this in a recent guest post I wrote over on Money Wizard, where I talked about how I’ve made around $90,000 from side hustling […]
Lively HSA Review: The Best Free HSA For People Pursuing Financial Independence
In this Lively HSA review post, I want to share what my experience with Lively has been like, why I made the move to it, and whether you might want to do the same thing.
January 2020 Side Hustle Report – $1,186.80
Welcome to the first side hustle report of the new decade! In today’s post, we’ll be taking a look at what I earned from side hustling in January 2020. To give you a bit of context on what these side hustle reports are about, last year I took a big leap and quit my job […]
More Important Than The Perfect Portfolio – It’s Picking Something And Sticking With It
One of the challenges that I’ve had to deal with during my (admittedly short) investing career is avoiding the persistent urge to tinker. There’s this thing that I think happens to a lot of us as we begin to learn more about investing. We start devouring a lot of information and get a handle on […]
$600,000 Earned In A Decade – What Do I Have To Show For It?
Earlier this month, I put together two posts looking back at the past decade of my life (which you can read here and here). I’ve had a lot of important and formative events happen to me over the past decade – graduating law school, starting my first job, meeting my wife and getting married, quitting […]
