If you have any American Express credit cards, check your "Amex Offers" in either your online account or smartphone app. Most people are seeing the offer "Spend $10+, get $5 back, up to 10 times when you Shop Small by 9/20/20". Get a $5 … [Read the rest]
For most households, the biggest expense is housing. A time-tested way to reduce your housing costs is to share a place with others, but usually we think of a bigger house as the result of a bigger nuclear family. However, even young professional … [Read the rest]
Here is a new Amazon/AmEx promotion that promises "$20 off at Amazon after you make a single purchase of $50 or more using your American Express card". However, the promotion has a lot of fine print to note: You must purchase products "sold … [Read the rest]
The Story of Stuff (embedded below) is a short animated film about the lifecycle of material goods. Even though it was released over 10 years ago, the overall message of anti-consumerism and sustainability still applies to our current world. … [Read the rest]
Update February 2021: The Bank of America Travel Rewards Credit Card has expanded the eligible categories of spending against which you can get their 1.5% to 2.62% back from only Travel purchases to include both Travel and Dining (including … [Read the rest]
If you enjoy listening to podcasts about entrepreneurial stories on a smaller scale (i.e. not tech unicorns), I recommend the Forrager Podcast about cottage food businesses, where people sell food made in their home kitchens (as opposed to a … [Read the rest]
Art Carey of the Phildelphia Inquirer shares some great quotes from a past interview with the late Jack Bogle, in which Bogle shared the advice he would give his own son: Vanguard’s John Bogle gives tips for life on Father’s Day. The advice is … [Read the rest]
If you are a current Sprint customer, they are running a promotion called Unlimited Line on Us where you can add a extra line with no monthly charge, although you are still subject to the monthly taxes and fees (approximately $5 to $10 a month … [Read the rest]
It's not the classic Microsoft Money application (which I'm still asked about periodically), but Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers can now download "Money in Excel" (free) which promises to help you manage your personal finances using … [Read the rest]
In better times, Hertz took out a big loan and put up their vast inventory of cars as collateral. COVID-19 caused the lender to worry about getting their money back, so they called in the loan. Hertz doesn't exactly have much cashflow right now, … [Read the rest]
In early retirement discussion forums, you'll often see the term OMY, which refers to people who have reached their calculated retirement savings target, but decide to keep working "One More Year". Sometimes that one more year becomes two more … [Read the rest]
If you like having a complicated portfolio and owning exotic asset classes for diversification, you might want to prepare yourself before reading Skating Where the Puck Was: The Correlation Game in a Flat World by William Bernstein. Most of the … [Read the rest]
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