a hackers guide to managing your money
The internet, and your office watercooler (what an anachronism!), is littered with stories about how so and so made a bundle selling their home or some hot stock investment. Just the other day, I was talking to a reporter about how my holdings in Southwest Airlines are up 637% over the like 7-8 years. That […]
We have three young kids so we don’t fly a lot. But when I do, maaaaan, I love TSA PreCheck. This post will tell you which credit cards will give you Global Entry and TSA PreCheck for free. A few years ago, my lovely wife signed me up up for TSA PreCheck and it’s been […]
When people talk about tax loopholes and other shenanigans, it’s usually very small or illegal. We don’t want to waste time doing anything small… and we want to avoid anything illegal. We definitely want to avoid anything illegal. Taxes are a pretty easy game to understand. There are just two pieces to this vexing puzzle […]
We’ve curated a list of the best sign-up bonus rewards for credit cards. I remember a time when the best sign up bonuses were 50,000 points. Whether it was miles, points, or some other reward – fifty thousand was the gold standard. The regular cards offered like twenty or thirty, while the best ones offered […]
We tend to remember numbers that are important to us. Everyone knows how much they weigh. If you were so forward as to ask, the person might say that they don’t know or don’t remember, but they know. We remember numbers that are important to us. Ask someone for their credit score and unless they […]
Real estate investing is often seen as one of the most reliable ways of growing and accumulating wealth but investing in individual properties was never appealing. It takes a lot of time to research and vet individual properties. It requires a lot of domain expertise that I don’t have, like how to evaluate the various […]
I love “behind the scenes” of any business. It could be something as mundane as a laundromat, I eat that stuff up. One of my favorite “behind the scenes” episodes of any program was one titled 129 Cars on This American Life. In 2013, This American Life goes to a car dealership in Levittown, NY […]
By pure chance, we get television, internet, and wireless cell phone service through one company – Verizon. For TV and internet, we don’t have a choice. We live in a slightly remote area and the only cable line that runs to our house is from Verizon. I know this because due to construction in our […]
When you run your own business, there’s a surprising level of trust involved. You trust that the customers who enter your store don’t slip a few items into their pocket and walk out. You trust that the person paying you with a credit card didn’t steal it from someone. You trust that the agreements you […]
Just the other day, someone read my post about how we track our net worth and asked me a really simple question – how do I track our investments? The short answer is… well, I don’t. I check my investments once a month, when I update the spreadsheet, and then I don’t really look at […]