This post is part of our Summer Reading series! If you’re in debt, chances are you feel like you’re fighting an uphill battle. No matter how many payments you make, you can’t seem to make a dent. Your progress is moving at super sloth speeds. I know how it feels. I’ve been paying off my student […]
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Oh boy, do I have a lot to say on this topic. And pretty much all of it boils down to “don’t do what I did when I was a recent grad.” I’m pretty old for someone writing on “Young Adult Money” (37!!!!) and I really wish sites like this had been around back when […]
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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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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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Last week I wrote about common budgeting mistakes, as well as some suggestions for better strategies. But success isn’t just about avoiding the biggest pitfalls. It’s also about the daily grind of sticking to your budget, and that’s where a lot of people get into trouble. If, like I used to, you’re finding it easy […]
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Most young professionals work hard – very hard. We’re eager to prove ourselves, to move up in the company or better our craft, but this comes at a cost. Usually this cost is stress and while stress itself is neither uncommon nor necessarily a bad thing for your work, prolonged periods of intense stress can […]
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Last Summer I was approached by a publisher to write a book. I immediately knew what I was going to write about: side hustles. Side hustles are such a big part of my story and have had a big impact on my life. They’ve allowed me to tap into my entrepreneurial side without leaving my […]
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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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This post is written by our regular contributor, Mike. Saving money with every paycheck is common financial wisdom, but for most of us there will be times in our lives when simply saving money isn’t enough; finances become tight we start looking for ways to tighten the belt. The problem is that the measures we […]
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