a hackers guide to managing your money
No matter what you feel about breakfast, whether you love it or hate it, it’s hard to argue that breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. It’s certainly in the top three. 🙂 So it stands to reason that if you’re going to stay at a hotel, it’d be nice to […]
In another life, I wrote process management software for large organizations in the government. These organizations had processes that “evolved” out of years of personal relationships and massive three-ring binders. (It wasn’t until that job that I learned Excel spreadsheets had limits to the rows and columns in a sheet!) The processes had become extremely […]
Passive income is the dream. It is said that millionaires have seven streams of income and I personally believe income streams free you from the shackles of employment. But passive income can be a little… irregular. Irregular income isn’t an issue if you know how to handle it, but why build a passive income system […]
How much of my monthly budget should I be spending on food? Am I eating out too much? What about rent? Am I spending too much on rent or maybe utilities? These are all difficult questions. It’s hard to know if we’re spending too much or too little, unless we’re constantly in the red, but […]
One of the new trends in credit cards is making the card out of materials other than plastic. I was hanging out with a friend when he paid for his part of the bill with an American Express Platinum Card. It caught my eye because it didn’t look like your typical credit card. Much like […]
JPMorgan Chase Bank is one the largest banks in the United States on any number of statistical measures. According to the Federal Reserve, they are largest by total assets with $2.1 trillion. They got there because they offer some of the most attractive sign-up promotions in the market. Whether it’s for their credit cards or […]
We are wonderfully predictable creatures, aren’t we? 🙂 We love to gamble. We love the get rich quick story. We love the lottery. We love the rags to riches story so much that it is the basis of many classic stories. And no one likes to gamble, get rich quick, or play the lottery like […]
Do you remember those Free Credit Report commercials? They featured a young man playing a guitar singing a jingle about how his poor credit led to so many problems in his life? It was catchy, for sure, but it also came with a catch. When you signed up for your “free” credit report, you also […]
Years ago, when we had a lot of friends living in downtown Baltimore, they’d routinely get their cars broken into. It got so bad for one of my friends that she left her car unlocked with a note telling potential thieves that it was unlocked (and empty). It was cheaper than replacing broken windows all […]
When you need a document or a package to get somewhere tomorrow, it can get really expensive. Sometimes you have to ask yourself if you really truly need it to be there the next day, or if you only need it to be postmarked by today. For example, if you mail your tax return, you […]