*Unfortunately, there have been changes in recent years that have changed the nature of my emergency fund. Insight no longer offers a 5% interest account. I’ve also added Service Credit Union as a new 5% interest account and HMBradley and Service Credit Union give me access to 3% interest as well. Today, it’s no longer […]
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Making Over $7,000 In Bank Account Bonuses In One Year
Sometime not too long ago, my sister-in-law was over at my house and noticed a huge stack of credit and debit cards on my dining room table – probably 75 of them at least. It’s an admittedly laughable amount of cards for anyone to have. “You have a problem,” she opined. That’s a fair assessment […]
The Benefits Of Paying Taxes With Your Credit Card
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. One of the things about moving towards self-employment and full-time side hustling (admittedly an oxymoron) is that I’m on the hook for paying all of my taxes. When you’re employed in a regular job, taxes often seem like an afterthought […]
December 2019 Side Hustle Report – $1,541.50
Welcome to the last side hustle report for 2019! In today’s report, I’ll be sharing what I made from side hustling using various sharing economy and gig economy apps in December 2019. As a quick recap, over the past four years, I’ve tracked all of the side hustle income I’ve made from using these different […]
My Decade In Review, Part 2: Diverging Off The Clear Career Path
This Part 2 of my Decade-In-Review. Please read Part 1 if you’re interested in learning more about how I ended up here. I left off my last post at the point where I’d just graduated from law school, moved into an apartment with my girlfriend, and was getting ready to start my first real job […]
My Decade In Review, Part 1: How I Started On This Road
With the end of one decade and the start of a new decade, I thought now might be a good time to take a look at the past ten years of my life and reflect on where I came from and how I ended up where I am today. A decade is sort of a […]
Combining SoFi Experiences And Travel Hacking For Free Flights And Free Events
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about SoFi and how much value I’ve received from refinancing my student loans with them way back in 2015. Refinancing did two things for me. First, it dramatically lowered my interest rate, which made it easier for me to pay off my student loans as fast as I […]
November 2019 Side Hustle Report – $3,233.67
Welcome back to another edition of the Financial Panther Side Hustle Report. Each month, I document exactly what I made using different sharing economy and gig economy apps. I started documenting all of these different side hustles back in 2016 (over three years ago) and it’s amazing to me that I’ve been able to keep […]
Why You Should Airbnb Your House When You Travel
The past few months have been a bit of a whirlwind of travel for me. During this stretch, I visited some friends in New York and San Francisco, did some hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, stayed at the Waldorf Astoria while my wife and I were in Chicago for a conference, and relaxed at […]
The Impact Of Friction And How It Holds Us Back From Getting Things Done
When I quit my job in 2019 to go all-in on this blog, I knew that I had a few housekeeping tasks that I needed to complete. This included rolling over my 403b to my Solo 401k and getting health insurance before my 60-day COBRA retroactive period came to an end. Of course, both of […]
