The most important part of anyone’s money system is their primary checking account. This is the financial inbox of your money system – the main checking account where most of your income goes into and that you pay your bills out of. For the most part, you probably won’t change this bank account very often, […]
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Lili Bank Review 2024 – A Free Business Bank Account For Freelancers And Gig Workers
Lili is a free business checking account specifically designed for freelancers and gig workers. In this Lili Bank review, I go over everything you need to know about Lili.
Financial Panther Bank Account Bonus Recap 2020: Over $10,000 In Bank Bonuses!
With the start of a new year, I thought it’d be a good time to provide a recap of all the bank account bonuses I earned in 2020. This past year was a big year for me on the bank account bonus front. All told, I earned over $10,000 in bank account bonuses (the exact […]
Bank Account Bonus Rules: How Do I Keep Earning Bank Bonuses Each Year?
A reader recently asked me a question that I thought was worth answering in a full post. His question – how do I keep earning so many bank account bonuses each year? It’s a question that I hadn’t really thought about, but indeed, over the past five years, I’ve earned more from bank account bonuses […]
Becoming A Millionaire With The $30 A Day Retirement Strategy
There’s a little-known fact about investing that most people don’t appreciate until they really think about it. That fact is this: if you give yourself enough time, the amount you have to save in order to end up with a large sum of money is actually very reasonable. Perhaps nothing can open your eyes to […]
Getting More From My Emergency Fund With 3% and 5% Interest Savings Accounts
With interest rates where they are right now, I no longer recommend anyone jump through the hoops of using Netspend to open multiple 5% interest accounts. Instead, I recommend using Raisin, which is a free high-yield savings option that you can set up in minutes. Check out my post on Raisin here. In the interest […]
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 […]
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, […]
Job Shutdowns And Why You Should Have An Emergency Fund
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 […]
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 […]
