Part 4: Why Manufactured Spending is like Russian Roulette
In Part 2 a few weeks ago, I taught you how to pay your rent and other large expenses with a credit card and earn points even if the payee doesn’t...
Category: personal finance
Part 3: Use Ultimate Rewards for Flexible Redemption
In Part 1, we went over a relatively easy tactic for accumulating a ton of credit card rewards without having to significantly increase our spending by signing up for many credit...
Part 2: How to Pay Rent with a Credit Card
In Part 1, I went over the types of people who should and shouldn’t try to open dozens of new credit cards in order to harvest the generous sign-in bonuses....
How to 10x Your Credit Card Rewards, Part 1
Most credit cards these days give you 1% cash back (or points or frequent flyer miles that’s the equivalent of 1% cash back.) Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll come across...
Free Call Options: Better Than Free Beer
Introduction to Stock Options Stock options are financial contracts that grant you the right to buy or sell shares of a certain stock at a strike price (fixed price) before a particular...
10 Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Investing
Statistically speaking, investing isn’t likely going to make you many times richer very soon but it’s also not likely to leave you in the poor house if you keep it...
6 Ways to Mitigate an Abusive Employer
An abusive employer takes advantage of his/her employees who are dependent on a regular paycheck to keep food on the table, a roof over their heads, and their bills paid. In a...
The Top 10 Assets You Need for a Better Life
There’s no doubt that increasing your net worth will, in general, increase your quality of life. This endeavor may involve a combination of the following steps: Saving more Spending less...
Using Evernote to Organize Your Bills and Stomp Out Late Fees
Are you paying too many unnecessary late fees? Do you want to establish a simple yet flexible system for getting due date reminders? If you’re currently using Evernote, then I highly...
Taking Control of Your Money Isn’t Complicated
A large number of individuals and families don’t have budgets, and the reasons are understandable: They find tracking details of their spending complicated. It makes them feel guilty. It takes...
