Lately I’ve been writing a lot about the importance of your credit score. All kinds of things impact your credit score, such as the way you use credit cards and the amount of debt you have. But you can’t work on building your credit score unless you know what’s on your credit report. Credit reports […]
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Being your own boss sounds like a dream to most people. You can work from home (or anywhere in the world), set your own hours, work on what you want with clients you like, and enjoy a ton of flexibility. While there are certainly many upsides to self-employment, there are still downsides to being a […]
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As most of you probably know, moving isn’t cheap, but it’s been somewhat of a goal of mine to explore living in different cities in the US, and I definitely don’t feel like settling down just yet. So about a month ago, I got to experience the joy of moving yet again…and all the unexpected […]
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Over the past three years my wife and I have proactively made use of credit card rewards to travel for free or cheap. Whether it’s a weekend away or a longer trip, travel rewards credit cards have helped us save thousands of dollars. In 2016 we are focusing on hotel credit card rewards for the […]
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A few weeks ago I wrote about common budgeting mistakes and one thing that came up a lot in the comments was the importance of tracking your expenses. I could not agree with this more. Tracking what I spend every day, week, and month shows me what I actually spend and not what I wish […]
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Everyone knows that I think side hustles are great tools for increasing your income and getting in a better place financially. But that doesn’t mean I suggest going into a side hustle blind, nor do I think it is necessarily the easiest way to get into a better place financially. One thing I talk about […]
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The old advice about writing goes that you should write about what you know, and that’s probably a good reason why we write about side hustling so often here at Young Adult Money. YAM itself was started as DC’s side hustle. His first book, Hustle Away Debt, is all about using those techniques he learned […]
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It took me a while to come around on budgets, I have to admit. Through my 20s and into my early 30s, I bounced back and forth between writing down occasional budgets on the backs of envelopes and not really tracking my money at all. In other words, I wasn’t organized with my finances, and […]
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It does seems counterproductive, doesn’t it? Rewarding your financial discipline by dipping into those very same hard-earned finances sounds like something you should avoid. After all, shouldn’t more money in the bank or less debt to pay off be the reward in and of itself? The simple answer to that question is, yes, of course […]
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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Block Advisors. All opinions are 100% mine. At this point most people have either already filed their taxes or will be filing them soon to meet the April 18th deadline. One of the reasons I gave in my post 5 Reasons You Should Plan […]
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