Money Hacks
A Buyer’s Guide for All Those Gift Cards We Received: 7 Approaches
Categories: Spend
Barely a week has passed and you already forgot you had them. This year, don’t let your gift cards go to waste until you find it in an envelope next October, do something smart with it.
Amazon Prime Has Completely Changed the Way I Buy Everything
Categories: Learn, Spend
Shipping charges really add up when buying things off the internet, with Amazon Prime most items get free 2 Day delivery. But that’s not the only benefit the service offers.
Homemade Magic Bullet: Using a Mason Jar with Your Blender
Categories: Learn, The Field Manual
Want the convenience of making your protein shake right in the glass but don’t want to drop the funds on a store-bought solution? Try a mason jar.
How I Cut Cable
Categories: Learn, Spend
Cable sucks. It’s a money suck and a life suck. Our man Richard Dedor figured out how to get his entertainment fix without the $70 per month price tag.
How to Make Your Own Kickass Beef Jerky with No Special Tools
Categories: Learn
Beef jerky can be a nearly perfect snack nutritionally but it’s expensive and making your own requires special equipment like a dehydrator. Until now. We show you how to get great tasting beef jerky with the stuff you’ve already got in your kitchen.
Five Things You Should Buy in the Next Six Weeks
Categories: The Field Manual
If you want to get a great deal, you have to know what time of the year what you’re looking for goes on sale. Luckily for you, these five areas of goods will all be heavily discounted in the next six weeks.
That Didn’t Last Long: 6 Lottery Winners Who Lost Their Millions
Categories: The Field Manual
Just because you won a $50 million jackpot doesn’t mean you’re set for life, as proven by these 6 big spenders.
The Cheapest Rich Guys in the World: Top 5 Frugal Billionaires
Categories: Earn, Spend
We all dream of being a billionaire so we can do what we want and buy what we want but these five guys prove rich people get rich by not blowing all their hard-earned cash.
See How Easily You Can Get Your Finances In Order
Categories: Invest
So, you’re out of college now but you still have no idea how to make your dreams come true. You have student loans farther than you can see, your car is about to die and that smell coming from the neighbor’s apartment isn’t getting any better. What is a man to do? Here are eight things to remember as you’re starting to grow your wealth.
Make Coffee With a French Press That is Cheaper Than Starbucks and Tastes Better Too
Categories: Learn
Stop blowing all your money on $4 coffee. With a french press you can make delicious joe at home that tastes better than a coffee shop’s AND it’s a whole lot cheaper.
Is Your Income Optimized?
Categories: Earn
Five Ways That You Can Go Green and Save Green
Categories: The Field Manual
Saving the planet is nice and all but sometimes we need a more personal and direct barometer for us to gauge our earnest attempts to reduce the size of our carbon footprints. As always, it comes down to money.
Five Things You Should Always Buy Online
Categories: The Field Manual
As a companion piece to last week’s Five, I’ve decided to basically explain the five most common items on which you should never spend a lot of money, especially when they’re being bought online.
Easy Online Money Hacks Guaranteed to Make You or Save You Money
Categories: Invest
If you haven’t been using the internet to enhance your finances, then you’re about as up to date as Friendster. We may not make you the next social media mogul, but these hacks will start making you, or saving you, money instantly.
Get Your Money Back… From the Future!
Categories: Earn, Spend
To survive current economic hardships, you have to act in the now. What better way than getting some inside tips from after this whole debacle blows over, courtesy your future self? Hindsight by way of time travel is 20-15, after all.
Bartering is the New AMEX
Categories: Spend
With the economy struggling and your checkbook tightening, it might be time to put that 500+ DVD collection or your ability to reupholster a muscle car to use at the bargaining table.
Travel Sense: The Secrets to Stretching Your Dollar
Categories: Live, Spend
Want to travel but fear your bank account can’t handle it? Fret no more with these cost saving travel secrets sure to give your vacation a run for its money.
Moving Out: Five Secrets to Getting Back Your Security Deposit
Categories: Learn
Sure, the indoor baseball and jungle juice ice luge SEEMED like good ideas, but now you’re moving out and there’s a lot of wreckage to hide. Utilizing these 5 secret weapons, not only will your place look better than when you moved in, you’ll also be 1 months rent richer.
Practical Spending: 4 Potent Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Money
Categories: Spend
So you’re not a millionaire yet and it might be wise to stretch a dime or two. Follow these spending tips and you’ll get more bang for your buck, at least until you’re drinking champagne out of diamond studded cups on the Riviera.
Streamline and Organize Your Finances
Categories: Learn, Spend
If cleanliness is next to godliness, then being organized is definitely Zeus levels of powerful. Keeping your finances in order will not only make your life easier, you might just unearth some extra spending cash.
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