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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Best Personal Finance Related YouTube Channels
Updated for 2019 is my list of best personal finance related YouTube channels. I originally wrote this post a few years ago, but I’m republishing it today with an updated list of YouTube channels I’ve been watching that you might want to watch too. There’s a lot of great content out there that can help […]
Financial Panther 2018 Credit Card Recap: 1 Million Points Earned In One Year!
A year ago, I wrote a post in which I recapped all of the credit cards that I opened in 2017. That year was a big milestone for me – it marked my first year ever of travel hacking. Prior to 2017, I only had two credit cards. One was a Citi credit card that […]
How To Start Travel Hacking – What Should Be Your First Credit Card?
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. One of the things that initially held me back with the whole credit card and travel hacking game is that I didn’t really understand where to begin. There was a lot of information that I needed to know if I […]
What’s In My Wallet: A List Of All Of My Credit Cards
Over the past year and a half, my wife and I have accumulated hundreds of thousands of points and miles from the strategic opening and use of credit cards. These points and miles have served us well, allowing us to do a ton of traveling over the past year that we otherwise wouldn’t have been […]
Travel Hacking, Work, and Embracing Fast Travel
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. The great thing about getting into the world of credit cards and travel hacking is just how much it opens up the world to you, not just with where you can travel, but also with how often you can do […]
Business Credit Cards: The Ultimate Tool For Travel Hackers
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. Ever since I discovered the world of credit card points and travel hacking, I’ve been obsessed with learning everything I can about this hobby. With a little bit of knowledge, it’s possible to accumulate hundreds of thousands of points and miles […]
Over 600,000 Miles Earned In One Year – A Recap Of My First Year of Travel Hacking
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. I sometimes find it hard to believe that just a year ago, I only had two credit cards to my name – a Citi Forward Card that I got in 2006 during my sophomore year of college, and a Target […]
