a hackers guide to managing your money
There are a lot of market research, offer-fulfilling, game-playing, rewards programs. We list dozens of them on our massive list of sites to make extra money. One site you won’t see on that list is CashCrate. Curious why? Is CashCrate a scam? CashCrate is a legitimate reward program. It is NOT a scam. But when […]
I have a friend who enjoys horse racing. Well, to be precise, I have a friend who enjoys betting on horse races. When we go to Las Vegas, we like to spend an afternoon at a sportsbook. We pool our money and he picks a few races. On any typical trip, we sit down with […]
When I started by business, I researched business credit cards. I was hoping to find one with juicy sign up bonuses. Alas, credit cards weren’t as generous as they are today. Many offered cash back with slightly higher percentages on business related charges. Those included travel, office supplies, and telephony bills (cell phone, internet). I […]
The steps to starting a business are really easy. Starting a business is as simple as saying – “I’m a business.” Every citizen has a Social Security Number and can immediately start a sole proprietorship. It gives you the least amount of legal cover, since you are personally liable as a sole proprietor, but you […]
Have you ever heard the advice that the true path to wealth is through real estate? For many Americans, real estate makes up a huge percentage of their net worth. Buying a home is the American dream and monthly mortgage payments build equity. It’s still wealth building but as a byproduct of needing a place […]
I went to college for five years and graduated with a Bachelor’s, a Master’s degree, $35,000 in student loans but also a job. I had a Computer Science degree but timed my graduation with the dot com bubble bursting. Yay me. So I stayed an extra year, picked up an M.S., and managed to score […]
I grew up with a relatively privileged upbringing in the 1980s. We were what I still consider solidly middle class. My parents owned a single-family home in the suburbs on Long Island, my dad had a stable white collar job, my mom also worked part-time while we weren’t in school, we never worried about food […]
When my girlfriend (now lovely wife) and I first started dating, we’d go on various road trips together. I don’t think it was that long ago but this was before the days of having Waze or Google Maps on your phone. We’d print out Mapquest directions! I’d drive, she’d navigate, periodically changing the directions because […]
Did you hear about how Bank of America was going to start charging a monthly fee if an account didn’t have maintain a $1,500 minimum balance or have a monthly direct deposit of $250 or more? Personally, I don’t understand the moral outrage (actually I do, it’s to sell pageviews because it’s popular to slam […]
Every New Years, we rent a vacation house with friends from college. We get one of those big 12-bedroom vacation homes, fill it with food, games, adult beverages, kid beverages, and then we spend 3-4 days celebrating another year gone by. When we started, there were no kids. Now there are close to a dozen! […]