Using credit cards for their rewards, also known as churning, is something that has become a huge personal finance trend in recent years. I’m one who’s always taken a stance against it since the risks seem to far outweigh the rewards. While I do use credit cards minimally I’ve always been cautious about overdoing it as I don’t want to put myself in a position where I can’t pay my bill. Not to ...
How I Made Over $10,000 Online Last Month
Over the past four years I’ve worked on this website as well as my freelance business. To say that my income growth has been slow and steady would be absolutely correct. Well, until last month, that is, when I made almost double what I’ve been averaging for the past year. If you would’ve told me four years ago that I’d go from making $1,800 per month to more than $10,000 in a month I probably ...
6 Top Rated Mystery Shopping Companies (“A” Rating from the BBB)
While it’s not going to replace your job, mystery shopping can be a fun way to earn extra cash or get free merchandise, event tickets and food. And despite what you may have pictured, mystery shopping is not just going into stores and making purchases. Mystery shopping can include making phone calls, shopping online and even visiting a doctor’s office! Like most work from home gigs mystery ...
Legit Ways to Make Money with Your Social Media Accounts
The ways in which a person can earn a living has changed so much over the last decade. It’s a bit mind blowing all the ways you can earn money from the comfort of your own home and even more mind blowing that you can earn money for just being yourself…………kind of a dream job, right? I predict that over the next decade we’ll see the ways in which you can earn money online drastically change, but ...
Be a Millionaire Day – Planning for Financial Indepedence
Today is officially Be a Millionaire Day! And I’m not going to lie – as a kid I always dreamed of what it would be like to be a millionaire and of course, how I was going to achieve that status. While being a millionaire looks a whole lot different than I had originally thought (no more visions of the movie Richie Rich in my head :) ) I still have the goal of getting there sooner rather than ...
Making Money From Home is Getting Easier
The ways that everyday Americans make money are changing. Freelancing, home scale investment, cottage industries, and artistic pursuits are getting easier than ever to monetize from the comfort of your own home. These realities are changing the way many industries operate. Because it’s so easy to work from home, lots of bright people are leaving the workforce, giving way to talent shortages in ...