*This below offer is expired and is no longer valid. Even though I try not to spend with reckless abandon, I’m still a sucker for smart home technology. When I was at FinCon last month, I managed to win an Amazon Echo Dot and have had that thing sitting on my shelf for the past month. […]
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Understanding Your Side Hustle Taxes
Something that often gets forgotten in the side hustling discussion is the impact of taxes. If you’re like most people, taxes are probably a thing that you don’t think about all that much. You get your paycheck, you file your taxes at the end of the year, and you probably end up with a tax […]
Using Airbnb To Create Your Home Maintenance Fund
Last November, our furnace went out. It wasn’t a good time for that to happen. The weather had just started to get cold and my sister-in-law was staying at our house for the month with her newborn baby and a 3-year-old child. Needless to say, not having heat for even a day wasn’t very convenient […]
What Is The Best 529 Plan – A Guide To Choosing Your College Savings Plan
Until a few years ago, I’d never heard of a 529 plan. A basic description is that a 529 plan is essentially a Roth IRA that can only be used for educational expenses. Money goes into the 529 plan post-tax, grows tax-free within the plan, and can then be withdrawn tax-free at any time so […]
Don’t Get Taken Advantage Of When It Comes To Your Retirement Plan For Work
One of the things you have to figure out whenever you start a new job is what retirement plan options your new employer offers. If you’re lucky, you’ll be in a job that has a good retirement plan that doesn’t take too much work to set up. That’s the situation I was in when I got my […]
What To Do With Your 401k When You Change Jobs
Now that I’ve recently changed jobs, I’m once again trying to figure out what to do with all of my old retirement accounts. Luckily, I’ve got a little bit of experience in this area. I’ve switched jobs twice in a little over a year – first leaving my biglaw associate position to work as a […]
Yes, You Can Bike To Work
One of the nice things about starting my new job (don’t worry, more to come on this in a future post) is that I’ve been able to cut my bike commute down to a really comfortable distance. What was once an 8-mile, 45-minute bike ride to work has now been reduced to a 3-mile, 15-minute […]
The Best Apps And Websites For Selling Your Stuff
It’s moving season in my neighborhood and, as a result, the streets are getting filled with trash as the college kids in my neighborhood move out. For someone like me, it’s like Christmas. There’s more trash out there than I can even realistically grab. If you’re a new reader, you’re probably wondering what the heck […]
Create A Stupid Mistakes Fund For Your Stupid Mistakes
A few months ago, I got into a dumb and completely avoidable bike accident. Â My wife and I were biking to meet up with a friend that lives not too far from us. Â The bike path that leads to our friend’s apartment winds its way through campus and part of the path goes through this […]
Why Biglawyers Need To Pay Off Their Loans Fast
A few weeks ago, I ran into a colleague of mine from my old law firm. After exchanging the normal pleasantries, we got to talking about who from our class was still working there. Â It wasn’t many. Â I graduated law school back in 2013 and started my first biglaw gig soon after. Â Just four years […]
