One of the common refrains you’ll hear from most personal finance experts is to properly manage your big three expenses: housing, transportation, and food. This makes sense – according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, these three expenses account for 62% of your typical household’s yearly spending. If you can keep these three expenses under […]
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Chime Bank + Catch App: The Combination I Use To Manage My Side Hustle Income
One of the mistakes a lot of people make when they first start side hustling is mixing their side hustle income and their day job income into their main checking account. Aside from the obvious administrative hassles that come with doing this, the biggest problem really has to do with the fact that your main […]
The Reverse Latte Factor – How You Can Side Hustle Your Way To Financial Independence
One of the things I enjoy about the current state of the side hustling world is just how easy it is to fit various side hustles into your day-to-day life. We live in a really unique time in history where it’s actually possible to piecemeal a few bucks here and there whenever you want. When […]
My Strategy For Longer-Term Savings Goals
A little while ago, I wrote a post that I called, “How To Afford Anything You Want.” As the name suggests, the thesis of that post was that anyone can afford to buy whatever it is they want – it just requires creating a few systems and taking a little bit of time to plan […]
How To Afford Anything You Want
A few days ago, a friend of mine texted me to tell me that the NFL released their schedule for the upcoming season, and as luck would have it, our hometown team, the Washington Redskins, would be in Minnesota to play the Vikings. We’ve always tried our best to attend games when DC teams come […]